The Inevitable Just-Do-It

In his resulting project, "The Inevitable Just-Do-It", the artist talks about the current state of the country and the tension that charges the air. He does it by quoting poetic lines of Soviet and modern Russian poets and musicians – from Vladimir Mayakovsky and Osip Mandelstam to Egor Letov and the Omsk "Tetris-punk" music band "Noisy and Menacing Pranks" – woven both literally and figuratively into the fabric of the paintings.

This series of works consists of a combination of traditional canvases and advertising banners, the themes for which he found on the central streets of Moscow, which had become the epicentre of social unrest in the summer of 2019. Employing the technique of "intuitive painting", reminiscent of Jackson Pollock's dribbling and the rituals of Siberian shamans, Fedorychev offers his own ways of visualising music and poetry, which highlight the spirit of the times.