"A good sketch is always distinguished by cohesion of form and spirit. By setting a technical task for yourself and getting absorbed by it an artist becomes capable of expressing a broader and more general sense. A sketch for the artist is a play in the broad sense of the word; a play based on one or two certain techniques and filled with the potential of a big and highly artistic work. Thus, Chopin’s and List’s studies are concert pieces, in which handicraft depends on and serves to disclosure of one bright artistic figure.

Artistic concept of the works presented at the exhibition is vey varied; there is only one figure in the basis of each of them, but still one can see juxtapositions rich in contrast. Some of them have shiny light colors, others are capricious and playful, the third to the contrary are of sad, melancholic or dramatic character.

Work on a sketch is kind of meditation, dissolution of yourself in space, which are obligatory conditions for concentrated pike energy. In such a spirit an artist can demonstrate something greater than his consciousness allows. Education, experience, customary stylistics yield to the possibility of intuitive insight and perception of the outer world".

K.P.