Moscow , 09.04.09 - 23.05.09




The works included in the new exhibition AYAVASKA were painted over the past six months, and belong to a series «Portal 108». According to Sidersky there are 108 of so-called «energy gates» or portals in the human body. Through these portals a person can gain access to his own knowledge and get the ability to awaken the extraordinary force of creative energy, which most people have in its sleeping state. Several years ago Sidersky started working on a series of 108 paintings - the visual characters of these portals. Each work contributes to the opening in the person the corresponding gate, on conditions that he reaches a certain level of self-development.

Name of the exhibition corresponds to the name of one of the paintings, which is a kind of key to the whole exhibition. «Ayavaska» comes from the word «aya», that in the language of the Indians means the soul or spirit, and «huasca» - curling stalk, rod, whip. This is the name of the medicinal and magical beverage that can give rise to profound mental, physical and spiritual experiences. Picture of the same name has a similar effect. Through these experiences «Ayavaska» can improve self-perception, and thus facilitate the opening of some energy portals.

To describe the field of Sidersky’s activity quite accurately fits the definition of «the objective art» given by esoteric and philosopher Georgy Gurdjiev. Art, in which nothing is accidental, is like mathematics, where almost everything can be calculated, and is known in advance. So the artist represents and understands what he needs to convey, and his work can not produce one impression on the one person, but the other impression on the other person, on the condition that both are the people of one level. With a mathematical precision it makes the same impression or impact. Gurdjiev attributed to these works of objective art large Egyptian sphinx, and other famous works of architecture, some statues of the gods.

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