Vlad Kulkov's exhibition "Mudflow" organically continues the line of research into the artist's boundaries and limits. This reflection is reflected in the plastic sense — the canvases seem to flow into each other, becoming a single stream. Mudflow in hydrology is a stream with a high concentration of mineral particles, stones and rock fragments, suddenly appearing in small mountain rivers and lasting for several hours. This is a hydrological metaphor, a state of static collapse without the forms of the past and obvious potential in the future. Solutions of different minerals come to the surface, the artist sees in this an aesthetic, but at the same time destructive plot. Kulkov is a modern natural philosopher, whose interests include issues of the structure of substances, the essence of movement. In his painting, romantic and purely naturalistic motifs appear at the same time, but all this is just a matter of view. Philosophia naturalis could become the title of one of Kulkov's works, organically continuing Agalenatea redii and Stereadota castanea, the names of spiders that have already become the names of canvases.
"When I started this series, it was impossible to predict that it would consist mostly of washed-out images. But I wanted to fit the ephemeral component into the patterns of the viewer's perception with an advantage. That's how the name was born, the erasing and mixing element," — says Kulkov.
The artist captures geological processes in his abstract canvases, and this entire series is a reflection on the earth as such, on its destruction and changes. The works are conducive to contemplation, and when interacting closely, they turn out to be quite figurative. For Kulkov, the earth is a super-concrete substance from which everything emanates and to which everything returns. It is matter capable of creating and erasing traces of the presence of its creations at the same time. "Mudflow" is a search for one's place within a turbulent stream.
