Extended Space

The painting presents an image of a landscape painted with Mikhail Matiushin's "expanded vision" Zorved system. The composition is created by the rhythm of forms and colors of organic objects. The organic forms move, swim, float on the mystical, deep blue creating a universal world as vision expands and with it the painter's thinking. Key issues in GINHOOK's research were the effect of colour in a neutral environment, the changes it causes in the form of shapes and the relationship between sound and colour, with the stimulation of the nervous system as a key focus. Consequently, a thorough examination of an organism or, more specifically, of an organic visual system must record all the relationships that arise between colour and space, time, sound and movement. Matiushin's laboratory studied and recorded the above parameters by following a path from the realistic depiction of the real object to the perception of the work as an autonomous organism, its relationship with nature through the reactions of the colours and shapes that make it up, and the conception of a theory compatible with the universal conception of art as a living organism.