We continued exploring the local art scene and getting acquainted with Petro, a “street wave” artist whose work you definitely saw at the “Entropy System” exhibition at Ruarts Gallery. They asked questions about chaos, creativity and a love of geometry, and Petro answered with works made specifically for BURO.
Petro is a representative of the “street wave” artists, who has been painting on walls for over 20 years. Founder and member of the post-graffiti duo Aesthetics Group (together with Ilya Slak). Petro’s eclectic style is based on a combination of various areas of applied art and architecture. Moving away from typographic compositions, the artist focused on geometric abstraction: his works are well-thought-out compositions with an abundance of colours and clean lines, somewhat reminiscent of architectural drawings and constructivist projects.
The same as for others: the tendency of the Universe to tend towards chaos. The exhibition “Entropy System” got its name during the process of work, when every day we had to face new surprises: the canvas turned out to be of poor quality, the paint did not adhere properly, the wrong varnish arrived. It seems that there is a plan, there is a system, but everything around you still tends towards destruction. Just like you.
If this doesn’t make sense globally, it’s great that we can come up with it ourselves, create our own system to overcome the chaos. My thing is to fill the inner emptiness, the calendar, the canvas. I got rid of the illusion that the work could end up being as perfect as a digital sketch. The entropy system has much more to do with the process than with the final result.
From them the exhibition “Entropy System” was born: the word “emptiness” was floating around in my head for a long time, the idea was not formalized, and then the calendar came to the rescue. I always print it before big projects in order to plan everything, and this time, due to a technical error, the printing press produced a mess of months, chaos in absolute terms. Without a calendar, without a plan, without a system, everything is literally empty, confused and meaningless. At that moment I realized that emptiness would become the main theme of the exhibition, and the calendar and numbers would be the main motive.
I have a background in graffiti, and since childhood, creativity has been a way for me to organize the inner chaos and simply the chaos around me. That’s why every year more and more straight lines and strict shapes appeared. When I finish my work and understand that there is nothing superfluous in the composition and everything is in its place, I feel confidence and harmony. It seems to me that something similar happens to people who have solved a complex mathematical equation.
After all, the system of entropy is creation. But whether this will not ultimately lead to self-destruction and whether it is already leading to it now is another question.
