WELCOME TO THE MIKHAIL KABAN-PETROV'S EXHIBITION:
The meaning-making action in Mikhail Kaban-Petrov's painting is something abstract, illusory and mysterious. The main unique dramatic line of the narrative is created thanks to the fractures, acquiring different images of duality.
"...but I stopped regarding craft quite soon as a mere skill. For me, the art space is a special spiritual zone. Creativity is always in defiance..."
In Mikhail Kabanov's painterly, abstract world, there is no overriding matter and no leading scale of colour. By changing the scale of the canvas he also changes the scale of significance of what is happening.
The protagonists of the visual narrative come to life on the artist's canvases and grow out of a daily and rather prosaic motif: an egg, bread, an apple. Objects familiar to the viewer long ago come into the artist's field of vision and magically take on a special value and magnetism.