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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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Glasshouse
Painting by Eugene Pokutnev
60 x 50 cm • Acrylics, Acrylicpainting, Abstractart, Abstract, Acrilic
Location:
Dnipro, Ukraine
In his work "Glasshouse" author presents a futuristic vision of the transformation of life in the era of total digitalization. The title of the painting enters into a deliberate dissonance with its visual language: before us is a new kind of garden, where instead of natural blossoms, hundreds of screens bloom, flickering with all the colors of information noise.
The rhythmic grid of vibrant squares mimics lush flowering, creating an illusion of festive multi-colored life. However, the overall mood of the canvas is imbued with an underlying sense of anxiety. These "digital flowers" are not free—they are inextricably fused into a complex structure and entangled in a dense dark matter. Chaotic tangles of lines, resembling wires or mechanical roots, bind the elements into a single, chillingly hermetic system.
A special place in this technogenic ecosystem is occupied by fragments of human faces emerging within certain frames. Frozen, as if trapped by a lens, they emphasize the themes of isolation and constant surveillance. In this "Glasshouse" the human being ceases to be the gardener and becomes merely another exhibit locked within a square frame. The artist forces the viewer to reflect: is this technological progress a space for growth, or is it a vivid digital cage where the brilliance of monitors merely masks a growing sense of alienation?
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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