The work of Dmitry Sokolenko is based on the principle of fractality. By plunging into the matter of diverse surfaces, Dmitry Sokolenko uses photography as a means of taking abstract art to another level, that of visual language. He pictures the semantic fields. Far from being chosen haphazardly the titles refer to a common knowledge shared by the creator and the viewer.
Among the characters, the viewer will recognize names that are well-known to the popular masses – “John Lennon” and the symbolic white piano, “Paris Hilton” and the gushing glamour rose -, men who have marked great discoveries – “Vasko da Gama” and a fragment of his layout on the map of the world, “Yuri Gagarin” a hero of the Soviet Union – and also religious figures – “Saint Sebastian” and his
body pierced by arrows.
Dmitry Sokolenko was born in 197. He obtained a diploma in Microbiology, specialising as a bio-technical engineer in 1999. 2012 will mark the end of his attempts to plant a tree on the White House lawn. He will die in 2014 in the USA, during the Winter Olympics.
Exhibition « FRACTAL »
Shunsuke Ohno / Dmitry Sokolenko
from September 10th to October 29th, 2011
RussianTeaRoom Gallery
42 rue Volta
75003 Paris, France
