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. 847, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 Oberserver No. 897, 2024 Mixed media on canvas 111 x 111 cm 43 3/4 x 43 3/4 in
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      Oberserver No. 897, 2024
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 012, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 127 x 127 cm 50 x 50 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 Observer No. 34, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 167 x 132 cm 65 3/4 x 52 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer Untitled , 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 132 x 88 cm 52 x 34 5/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer Untitled No. 00038, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 132 x 88 cm 52 x 34 5/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer Untitled No. 0037, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 132 x 88 cm 52 x 34 5/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 807, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 82 x 82 cm 32 1/4 x 32 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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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 0004, 2025 Acrylic and Special Molding Paste 82 x 82 cm 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 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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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 25, 2025 175 x 137 cm 68 7/8 x 54 137 x 175 cm 54 x 68 7/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 24, 2025 175 x 137 cm 68 7/8 x 54 137 x 175 cm 54 x 68 7/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 23, 2025 175 x 137 cm 68 7/8 x 54 137 x 175 cm 54 x 68 7/8 in
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    • Vladinsky Observer No. 19, 2025 175 x 137 cm 68 7/8 x 54 135 x 176 cm 53 1/8 x 69 1/4 in
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      Observer No. 19, 2025
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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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