Ritmo, color y composición
I'm thrilled to announce that my work has been featured in 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 magazine on June 28, 2023 (Mexico City).
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 is a renowned digital platform that has a passion for architecture and design. Since 2002, they have been transforming the experience of their readers through their commitment to enhancing the visual and content value of their collections, continuously innovating in formats and interactivity. The Core’s appreciation for architectural spaces, design, and art aligns with my own, making it an honor to be published in their digital collection. They've collaborated with prestigious studios such as Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Philippe Starck, and Sordo Madaleno. Their focus on sustainable practices and evolving digital capabilities is truly admirable.
English Translation:
”When she was a little girl, Helen Shulkin found a couple of tubes of oil paint in her mother's house in Belarus, without thinking she opened one of them and squeezed its contents on paper.
The very specific smell of the oil really impressed her, marking a before and after in her, that little girl wanted to understand how to work with the material she had just discovered and to this day she has never had enough of it.
"Art is the result of the artist's sincere creative search, which can inspire and touch not only the aesthetic senses, but also the innermost spiritual chords of every person, even those who are unsophisticated in art. Sincerity is the most important criterion in art for me. Sincere art immerses me in an ideal hypostasis of object and space. That is, it is no longer an image shadow or a false knowledge of reality, as Plato argued, but the very essence itself." - Helen Shulkin.
His evolution as an artist can be perceived through his work in three main periods, the student period, the experimental period and the established period, all of them focused on architectural spaces.
The first of these was inspired by his travels through the cities of southern Europe and the works of this early period are full of bright, exuberant colors. The cities are portrayed as jazz music with rhythm and improvisation.
"This period was marked by absolute freedom of creativity, where I still didn't think about the inner content of what I was creating. Then I began to frequently visit German cities like Hamburg and Frankfurt, where the industrial and post-urban spaces made a strong impression on me. Thus began my period of transformation, where I began to experiment a lot with techniques, materials and, above all, in the search for myself" - Helen Shulkin.
After moving to Hamburg in 2021, her experimental period of research ended and Helen arrived at the inner content of her work. The outbreak of war in Ukraine, where her relatives live, set the final points.
Thus, the post-architectural spaces in her most recent works represent a variety of rich cities that are on the verge of losing their balance, ready to collapse, in this way the artist breaks spaces, distorts time and builds structures in irreversible motion, where catastrophe can occur at any moment.”