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Eugene Pokutnev
Artist from Ukraine
Eugene's paintings aren't just compositions of colour - they are movements. They seemed to shift before your eyes, pulling you in, disorienting in the best way. His secret? ‘-black’ - a rare Japanese paint so dense that it absorbs nearly all light, creating an illusion of infinite depth. He orders it from a master in Japan, layering it alongside vibrant colour, bending space itself on the canvas. When you stand before his work, it’ as if you’ falling into the painting, moving between its layers, losing balance for just a second.
His journey into art was as unexpected as the effect of his work. Growing up in a small city near Dnipro, a career in art was never considered an option. He spent his days sketching intricate patterns but, like many others in his city, he needed stability. So he became a policeman.
And yet, fate has its way of rewriting stories. One day, while investigating a burglary, his colleague casually showed the apartment owner some of Eugene’ sketches. The man, a businessman with an eye for art, was so captivated that he made an offer on the spot: “ the police. I’ fund you.” And just like that, Eugene left law enforcement behind.
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Grateful listener
Painting by Eugene Pokutnev
50 x 60 cm • Abstractart, Abstract, Acrilic
Location:
Dnipro, Ukraine
The painting "Grateful Listener" is a vivid, surreal, and deeply ironic reflection by Eugene Pokutnev on the phenomenon of information dependency and the crisis of truth in the contemporary world.
The composition is built around a visual dialogue between two key elements:
* The small person on a chair (barely visible in the lower left section), symbolizing the average individual sitting in a posture of resigned consumption.
* The enormous screen (or image that occupies most of the canvas), which transmits an aggressive, complex, and multilayered stream of information. The face, trapped inside the helmet-screen, appears alienated and serves only as a carrier of the data mass.
Author uses his signature style, saturated with organic and mechanical forms, bright colors, and sharp lines, to create a feeling of information overload and chaos.
The Key Irony: The title "Grateful Listener" is a sarcastic allusion to the docility with which the modern person "absorbs" everything that is broadcast to them from large media resources or "authoritative" sources. The artist draws an analogy with current realities where conventional, objective truth is increasingly being displaced by imposed, often false, or manipulative information.
The painting invites the viewer not just to observe, but also to reflect: what exactly are we consuming, and are we truly "grateful listeners" to the manipulations that shape our worldview? This is a sharp commentary on the danger of blind trust in media and the loss of critical thinking.
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Location:
Dnipro, Ukraine
About the artist
Eugene Pokutnev
Artist from Ukraine
Eugene's paintings aren't just compositions of colour - they are movements. They seemed to shift before your eyes, pulling you in, disorienting in the best way. His secret? ‘-black’ - a rare Japanese paint so dense that it absorbs nearly all light, creating an illusion of infinite depth. He orders it from a master in Japan, layering it alongside vibrant colour, bending space itself on the canvas. When you stand before his work, it’ as if you’ falling into the painting, moving between its layers, losing balance for just a second.
His journey into art was as unexpected as the effect of his work. Growing up in a small city near Dnipro, a career in art was never considered an option. He spent his days sketching intricate patterns but, like many others in his city, he needed stability. So he became a policeman.
And yet, fate has its way of rewriting stories. One day, while investigating a burglary, his colleague casually showed the apartment owner some of Eugene’ sketches. The man, a businessman with an eye for art, was so captivated that he made an offer on the spot: “ the police. I’ fund you.” And just like that, Eugene left law enforcement behind.
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