Печать жикле на холсте, Fallen, 2023, Карташов Андрей, Россия, 21 век. 1 из 250 лимитированных отпечатков.

The heroic age, having bypassed with its measured tread from the Hellenic mythology and the gladiators of Ancient Rome, flashed as a bright, but sunset 24-frame glow on Hollywood screens in the 80-90s. The song about the Last Hero of the last moments of the era of patriarchal masculinity subsides... The symbol of today is the iron stilleto heel of feminism under the rainbow of tolerance trampling the fallen terminator. Like the giant steamship Titanic, having gone through the evolutionary chain from ancient Greek myths to screen images, the era of heroes is leaving the stage of history. Yet over the reality itself, in its original understanding, where Pelevin’s «object and subject number one» dominated, digital waves are concatenating. Through them, only the thumb of «everything is OK» can be seen, standing on its command bridge, the Last Titan. Reality, recently capable of the triumph of incarnation, the anthem of corporality, sinks to the bottom, slowly becoming covered with a layer of silt from the waste of the consumption era and digital rust... The fallen one contemplates the sunset, indifferently turning away from the world collapsing under Khokhloma-painted explosions, which again needs to be saved. Today there are those who can do it. Near the glasses frames, instead of the inscription «target detected», there also remains only the Khokhloma pattern ... Andrey Kartashov graduated from the A. Erdely Professional College of Arts of the Transcarpathian Academy of Arts in Uzhgorod, and later graduated from the Department of Painting of the Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Since 2007, he has been a member of the Portrait Painters Association of America (PSA), and in 2016, he joined the Union of Artists of Russia. His works are represented in the collections of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Tianjin Museum, and Liu Haisu Museum of Art in China, Arnold Schwarzenegger Museum in Austria, as well as in private collections of collectors from Russia, the UK, the USA, China, Ukraine, Poland, France, and the Netherlands. Produced using more forward-going technologies like the Metis scanner, which allows for printing out excellent quality art pieces it becomes a high-class, exclusive art piece. Height: 80 cm Width: 150 cm