Lot 172: Sea Battle, 2008

Sea Battle, 2008
Oil on canvas. 140 x 200 cm. (55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in).  Signed [in Cyrillic] and dated 'Mamsikov 08' lower right.

 Kiev, Collection Gallery, The Perfect Age Project, 10 July – 1 September, 2008; Ukraine, Bakhchisaray, Captivated by Bakhchisaray project, Bakhchisaray State Historical and Cultural Preserve, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul, Collection Gallery, 25 September – 25 October 2008

 LITERATURE Exhibition catalogue, Collection Gallery, The Perfect Age, Kiev, 2008, p. 14 (illustrated)

 Collection Gallery, Kiev

Being an artist, Maxim Mamsikov is mostly interested in the ordinary life. However, the genre nature in his interpretation does not really mean the simple truth. His painting rather fits the recent fad—sortof a ‘post media realism', that is based on the mechanism of paradoxical psychological compensation—the further away from reality, the more persistently you hang on its look-alikes... (ed. Collection Gallery, A. Soloviov, Bloomsday '08 Ideal Century, Kiev, 2008, p. 52)