Vladinsky | Afterimage: “Between disappearance and persistence lies the afterimage, what remains after the vision fades.”

27 November - 11 December 2025

  • Close your eyes and imagine that talent has a form. What does it look like, is it solid or fragile, familiar or impossible to name? 

    This is the starting point of Trying to Find the One Who Has Stolen My Talent, a series that began in 2024 with 46 small portraits and grew into larger canvases. Each work starts from a sketch and evolves into an abstract-figurative image, where faces are never fully resolved but left open for the viewer’s imagination.
    • Vladinsky Observer No. 896, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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      Observer No. 896, 2024
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      111 x 111 cm
      43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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    • Vladinsky The Suspect Who Hid in Blue 2, 2025 Oil on Canvas 100 x 80 cm 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
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      The Suspect Who Hid in Blue 2, 2025
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      39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
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    • Vladinsky His Hair Was Grey, 2025 Oil on canvas 82 x 82 cm 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in
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      His Hair Was Grey, 2025
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      82 x 82 cm
      32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in
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    • Vladinsky He Knew where to Check, 2025 Oil on canvas 135 x 95 cm 53 1/8 x 37 3/8 in
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      He Knew where to Check, 2025
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      135 x 95 cm
      53 1/8 x 37 3/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 847, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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      Observer No. 847, 2024
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 919, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 166 x 136 cm 65 3/8 x 53 1/2 in
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      Observer No. 919, 2024
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      166 x 136 cm
      65 3/8 x 53 1/2 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 908, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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      Observer No. 908, 2024
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      111 x 111 cm
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    • Vladinsky The One With the Crooked Smile, 2025 Oil on Canvas 125 x 95 cm 37 3/8 x 49 1/4 in
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      The One With the Crooked Smile, 2025
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      125 x 95 cm
      37 3/8 x 49 1/4 in
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  • The series is born out of a paradox: within the routines of everyday life, pursuing art can feel like an...

    The series is born out of a paradox: within the routines of everyday life, pursuing art can feel like an act of madness, a search carried out against the grain of a ‘normal’ society. This sense of doubt, the fleeting thought that talent might have been lost, stolen, or wasted, becomes the very force that drives the work forward. 

    • Vladinsky Pink Background, 2025 Oil on Canvas 125 x 95 cm 49 1/4 x 37 3/8 in
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      Pink Background, 2025
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      125 x 95 cm
      49 1/4 x 37 3/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 854, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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      Observer No. 854, 2024
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    • Vladinsky The Melted One, 2025 Oil on Canvas 100 x 80 cm 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
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      The Melted One, 2025
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      100 x 80 cm
      39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 901, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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      Observer No. 901, 2024
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      43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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    • Vladinsky Blue Letters, 2025 Oil on Canvas 82 x 82 cm 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in
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      Blue Letters, 2025
      Oil on Canvas
      82 x 82 cm
      32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 897, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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      Observer No. 897, 2024
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      43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 31, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 127 x 127 cm 50 x 50 in
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      Observer No. 31, 2025
      Acrylic and Special Molding Paste
      127 x 127 cm
      50 x 50 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 928, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 77 x 77 cm 30 1/4 x 30 1/4 in
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      Observer No. 928, 2024
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      77 x 77 cm
      30 1/4 x 30 1/4 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 0009, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 82 x 82 cm 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in
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      Observer No. 0009, 2025
      Acrylic and Special Molding Paste
      82 x 82 cm
      32 1/4 x 32 1/4 in
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  • At its core lies a question: can talent be stolen? Perhaps its essence is not to be protected, but to be shared. The viewer becomes central to this process, piecing together fragments, reconstructing faces, and carrying them further in their own imagination. In this way, the ‘thief of talent’ is not an outsider, but the spectator themselves, transforming the work by making it their own.

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