Izmail Efimov
Ethno-Futurist Watercolours
 1993-2014
Painting
 
  Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp.
These individually titled works, selected from different series, combine various visual inspirations – traditional embroidered costumes of the Mari people, archaeological bronze figures of the Permian animal style (ca 800 BCE – 1200 CE), book illustration, computer games – into a gallery of ghostly characters, not always benevolent.
 
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
                 
                 
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