An Ever Recurring Event 1984

Oleksandr Aksinin made this mixed media artwork on paper titled 'An Ever Recurring Event', and it's like stepping into a dream, right? I’m thinking about how the artist started with a black ground and built up these shapes and colours, balancing the dark shades with vivid green and red, plus that electric blue coil that goes up the green triangle! Maybe Aksinin was thinking about the simple shapes of childhood, or the complex world of technology, the way those two different worlds might communicate with each other. Look at the red rectangle that the green triangle sits on. See how the artist is using it as a surface on which to experiment with script and texture? He is sharing his curiosity with the viewer. Artists have always borrowed from each other, echoing ideas across generations. It's never a one-way street, and there's always room to re-imagine. That’s why, even though Aksinin has sadly passed, his works continue to open up conversations with us today.