Nenashev Ivan

"My artistic practice is a visual exploration of Friedrich Nietzsche's key philosophical intuitions, an attempt to translate the language of his aphorisms and concepts into the language of color, form and texture. I perceive the canvas not as an illustration to philosophical treatises, but as an arena where the same fundamental dramas unfold.

The central image for me is not the figure of the superman as a kind of ideal, but the very process of "super-overcoming" (Überwindung). I'm interested in that tense period where a person breaks the tablets of old morals — what Nietzsche called "slave morality" — but new values are still being born in agony. It is a state of dangerous freedom, dizzying openness to the absurd, and the need to create one's own meaning in a world devoid of a divine plan. My abstract landscapes and decentered compositions are a cartography of just such an inner experience.

Through painting, I am trying to ask a question that is relevant to both modern man and art.: how to find support in a world where "God is dead"? How, having recognized chaos and suffering as an integral part of being, not to fall into nihilism, but to say "yes" to life — to affirm it in all its ambivalent completeness? My works do not provide answers, but they capture the affective intensity of this question. They are a visual experiment to embody Nietzschean "hammer philosophy", where art becomes the tool that tests the strength of our habitual ideas about good and evil, order and chaos, man and what may lie beyond him."

Ivan Nenashev

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2025- "Polichinelle" by Popup Gallery, St. Petersburg
2024-" Rooms 303 " by Popup Gallery (curated by Sofia Abroskin), Wynwood Hotel, St. Petersburg
2023 - " Angle of view. Cain and Abel " curated by Sofia Abroskin, Shum2008 by Balaev and Dianova, St. Petersburg
2022-" Rooms " by Nikolai Ten, St. Petersburg

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