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Ilya Zomb

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The bewitching paintings of Ilya Zomb seen to depict a parallel universe, a place of strange, graceful beauty populated by a delicate cast of women and birds, attentive animals and lavish fruits and flowers. Over the decades of his practice, first in his native Russia, and then in New Yorke, Zomb has cultivated and honed his singular vision, fleshing out his fictional realm with unrelenting passion. His work seems to function according to a complex logic known in its fullness only to the artist. An intricate, fanciful society in which men are largely absent or are associated with animals, while women dressed as dancers engage every element of their surroundings in a highly choreographed ballet, ushering everything towards a harmonious state of ultimate beauty and balance.

While Zomb’s precise, lush, and luminous technique is akin to the style of Renaissance masters, his subject matter nods to Surrealism and to magical realist literature, which likewise integrates fabulist and fairytale elements. His Compositions tend to defy gravity, as if to say that art is above all a space of suspension, where beauty becomes the highest law and the restrictions of the real world fall away. Like the balletic scenes they depict, his canvases seem enchanted, preserving fleeting periods of perfect poise and weightlessness indefinitely in strokes of paint.

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