Konstantin Radchenko (b.1972, Moscow), currently lives and works in Verona, Italy. He started oil painting only in 2020 performing a real and imaginary landscapes taking many types and styles and discovering his own perception and techniques. Being also a lighting designer and photographer he is inspired and motivated by the dynamics of natural light which creates a variety of uncertain effects playing with environment and its textures, colors and shades.
Konstantin’s abstract and semi-abstract delicate paintings field an array of ambient and often shifting spaces permeated by soft or intensive streams of light and substance.
So he found that emotional experience which generates a variety of images and impressions is more substantial than a depicting of nature moments.
Currently Konstantin is working on a new series of paintings “Air” and “Earth” devoted to the nature elements and also he continues to develop his series “Polar” and “Endless Blue”.
Konstantin became a finalist of Art Talent Fair in 2024, took part in group fair at Arte Genova 2024 and exhibited with his solo stand at Arte Padova 2023.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I have always been attracted by elements of our nature, its inconstancy, abstractions, force and dynamics. My series of works are all about our air, water, fire and land. That is what highly motivates me in the start while then I get meanings that I develop in the process of work. Once I discovered that the impression of some place or object appears as a blurry abstract picture subtly conveying the essence of what was seen. Then I began to train my vision and over time I opened a new space of beautiful abstract things everywhere in everything that surrounds me.
I avoid putting a human in my artworks as I wish to create a space without obvious recognizable images but as space for contact, contemplation, dialog. Poetry has incredible power of influence when it immerses the reader in images with short, beautiful and precise rhyme. But I see art as an even more powerful way of immersing the viewer in a multi-sense spaces with images, meanings and even the sound, as I believe, a work of art carries within itself. But anyhow my brief description and the name that I give for my artwork is one of directions and I leave all for the viewer interpretation which I always appreciate.
So I don't see the point in reproducing the environment exactly as it is. On the one hand, this is not feasible to us since nature is much more deep, complex and changeable, and on the other hand I want to bring my own vision as I am the part of nature. And I play with colors, contrasts, shades and light adding some geometry to create a distinctive and slightly mysterious space.
Another important motive is the way of technique coming from my strong flow state that I reach during the process of painting. It does not matter what is used: brushes, aluminium profiles or even fingers - it is more from my body and soul, a sincere gesture that creates a unique piece. During the process for some of my paintings I stop for making some photos of what is done and then digitally rework them to check the way I go, the colors and contrasts I prefer to see. So I like to do such a research and review especially in the situation when it seems that the painting is done.
But above all I am guided by the intonation that I perceive within myself. My intonation is rather an energy impulse, a light vibration that illuminates some new unknown space with its structures, surface textures and color spots that I start to see. Having caught it, I act, or rather move.