Sanya Kantarovsky

'Detachment' presents a human organ system floating in space. It alludes to the Qigong practice of imagining one's organs with a smile. This motif is important to the artist and lent its name to the title painting of his solo exhibition Center at Capitain Petzel in 2022.

Monotypes are an integral part of Sanya Kantarovsky’s artistic practice. Created with Kantarovsky‘s long-time print-making collaborator Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press they lay bare the process of conjuring images, building on the residue of previously painted images on the plate. Functioning as both preliminary ideas and reflections on Kantarovsky‘s paintings, the prints offer a different register of seeing, hinging on the indexical slippage between paper and acrylic glass.