Viewing Room | Evgeny Chubarov. Untitled, 1994–1995

10 June - 14 July 2026
  • Evgeny Chubarov. Untitled, 1994-1995, Oil on canvas | 307 x 200 cm Evgeny Chubarov. Untitled, 1994-1995, Oil on canvas | 307 x 200 cm

    Evgeny Chubarov. Untitled, 1994-1995

    Oil on canvas | 307 x 200 cm

    “The closer I move toward what appears chaotic, the more I discover an underlying order. Art is not a search for harmony but a way of recognizing the forces that exist beneath the visible world.” — Evgeny Chubarov

     

    Now on view at Tatintsian Gallery Dubai

  • A painter, sculptor, and an enigmatic visual artist, Evgeny Chubarov translated his emotions, moods, and intellectual insights into a distinctive and unprecedented visual language. He created a unique iconography that brought contemporary artistic practice into dialogue with spiritual and historical traditions.
  • Evgeny Chubarov. Untitled, 1994–1995 (detail)
    © Gary Tatintsian Gallery

  • Deeply inspired by Byzantine, Armenian, Russian, and Arabic art—particularly illuminated manuscripts, calligraphy, and architectural ornament—Chubarov immersed himself in these historical forms. Working across Berlin, New York, and Moscow, he often surrounded himself with reproductions of these masterpieces. Chubarov regarded his artistic vocation as that of a “medium,” channeling diverse cultural legacies and uniting different spiritual worlds within a single, singular vision.

  • For more than four decades, Chubarov pursued the concept of Pure Abstraction—an intellectual and emotional approach to gestural painting where line, rhythm, and execution acquired central significance.
  • His works emerged through improvisation and a fascination with the unpredictability of abstraction. Visually and conceptually, Chubarov’s dynamic, all-over compositions...

    His works emerged through improvisation and a fascination with the unpredictability of abstraction. Visually and conceptually, Chubarov’s dynamic, all-over compositions capture the intense, immersive energy of Jackson Pollock’s action painting, while retaining the lyrical, deeply psychological, and layered emotional resonance characteristic of Joan Mitchell’s works.

  • Understanding improvisation in a musical sense, Chubarov approached painting as a symphonic process. His compositions lacked a traditional center and unfolded across the canvas in a dynamic, dispersed manner. Created in deliberate defiance of academic conventions, these structures abandoned classical balance and hierarchy, forming what he described as “non-relational art.”
  • “What we call abstraction is often a return to something more fundamental than representation. Before there were images, there were...

    “What we call abstraction is often a return to something more fundamental than representation. Before there were images, there were rhythms, marks, and impulses through which people understood the world.”

    – Evgeny Chubarov

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