Vibrant Matter, Cube.Moscow, Moscow, Russia, 2022.
Andrey Berger's Vibrant Matter exhibition brings together works from different series of recent years, united by the shared impulse behind their creation. These pieces reflect on pivotal moments of global transformation—the first emerging in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic, the second in February of this year. Such large-scale shifts, encompassing social, political, and cultural dimensions, reshape the world order, inevitably altering human experience and perception, forcing adaptation to new existential conditions.
In these works, Berger materializes the dynamics of worldly matter into his signature visual language, capturing its fluctuations and vibrations. Volumetric, illusionistic forms nearly engulf the entire pictorial space. Vivid, nearly fluorescent background hues shimmer through a black, plasticine-like graphic mass woven from intricate lines, creating a blazing chromatic effect that shifts with the viewer’s gaze. Within this mysterious haze—a barely perceptible pulse across the canvas surfaces—we witness not the epicenter of combustion, but its aftermath, with which we inevitably reckon.
Polina Mogilina