Video: The logic of the absurd: the fascinating world of surrealism by Mikhail Khokhlachev
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Works better known in the world as (Michael Cheval) can easily be compared to jigsaw puzzles that the viewer must diligently collect in small pieces, putting the picture together. His work is a cocktail of surrealism and absurdity, inviting the audience into an exciting game, where there is no logic as such, but there is another side of reality, born of unbridled fantasy and imagination …
Michael is a genius of surrealism and a master of the absurd. The plots of his paintings are, first of all, a mute dialogue with the viewer, which shocks, laughs, depresses or, on the contrary, encourages. And everyone understands and perceives this explosive mixture in their own way. Indeed, according to the artist, absurdity is nothing more than the logic of the heart, closely intertwined with the unconscious world, imagination and illusions. His work allows you to travel through surreal spaces, observing from the sidelines the vivid actions that were played out, it would seem, from scratch. The faces hidden behind masks, or masks instead of faces, are difficult to understand as they really are, but each image is a colorful show full of secrets, mysteries and intrigues. Cards, scales, jesters, chess, fragments of dreams and transcendent dreams - all this and much more are an integral part of his works, in which reality and fiction are closely intertwined …
Confused, incomprehensible, but very intriguing and amusing - this can be said about a series of works, which in his work combined surrealism, symbolism and madness on the verge of fiction and reality …
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