PF 1983. Dao 1982

Oleksandr Aksinin made PF 1983. Dao in 1983, and already I’m imagining him, brush in hand, layering that inky black to form this perfect circle. What does the black circle mean? Well, black can be a heavy color, but here it feels more like possibility, like outer space…or maybe inner space? That sinuous, almost playful line, feels like smoke, or a river, or even a path. The horizontal line that it rises from suggests a horizon or the surface of a pond. He had to make many decisions to arrive at the finished image and somehow find the place where it all meets. Aksinin was clearly having a conversation with the Modernists, but also forging his own path, right there on that surface. And now, we can join that conversation, too.