Andrey Kartashov, Six Butterflies of Apocalypse, 2023, Overpainted Giclée Print on Canvas

This is the initial version of «6 Butterflies of the Apocalypse» or «Savior Т-800». A post-apocalyptic semantic-figurative monad, giving a new impetus to the idea of ​​salvation through love, where the horsemen of the apocalypse transformed into a quadriga, more precisely, a sextet of butterflies (“which one feels in the stomach” or which are seated on a woman’s belly). «And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit…Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them. The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle…And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit» (Revelation 9:1-11). Medieval allusions peep through the context of the cyber-apocalypse, and the mechanoid model T-800 appears as a Knight of Skynet. The atmosphere of the semantic boundary between the windings of the time spiral, which touch so closely that they seem to be penetrating each other. The Angel of the Bottomless pit model T-800 is carrying the fire-scorched spiritual pursuits over into the safe coolness of likes and tweets... 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, combined with the artists hand touch through overpainting, it becomes a high-class, exclusive art piece. Excellent art piece in an elegant black wood frame. Height: 131 cm Width: 160 cm