"Apollo of Delphi', marble

"Cadmus", marble, 34x36x18 cm, 1993-2005

"Harmony", marble, 39x15x10 cm, 1994-1998

"Tsar of the Woods", marble,74х40х25cm, 2005

"Silenus", marble,44х38х25, 2006

"Protohuman", marble, 38x45x25 cm, 2003

"Centaur Chiron", marble,63х30х18 cm, 2001-2011

"Proteus", marble, 30 х 48 х18 cm, 2010

"Cadmus"

The glorious hero Cadmus, sent by his father in search of Europe, could not find her in the world of barbarians and, deciding to start all over from nothing. Following the advice of the Delphic Oracle of Apollo he founded the first European city, the seven-fold Thebes on the very place where he defeated the dragon dedicated to Ares. With the help of warriors grown from dragon teeth, Cadmus built a fortress, gave the citizens the laws and Harmony, a wonderful daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, became his wife.

Years passed… Cadmus and Harmony themselves turned into snakes… The city was swept by a wave of barbarism, but under the influence of humanistic ideas reborn and the size of European civilization increased from the seven-fold Thebes to the borders of all Hellas.

Thus, for the first time, but not for the last time, the European civilization stood up to barbarism. Today, European civilization, which has been repeatedly overwhelmed by the barbarian world, occupies a dominant position in the vastness of several continents.

"Harmony"

The daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, hate and love, symbolizes the unity of opposites. Harmony became the spouse of Cadmus, the founder of the seven-fold Thebes, the first city of European civilization. Since the ancient times Harmony has emerged as the image of a future Europe, the contours of which we can see today. But in order to achieve harmony in the society, it is necessary for a person to strive for personal harmony.

Harmony is the essence of all successful works of man, it is the essence of conscious unity of mankind with the universe.

From a small female torso with fabric breathes calmness, which appears from the inner balance. Balance in everything: the torso does not lean in any direction, it is static and at the same time there is an inner movement in it, the naked parts of the body are balanced by the drapery. It seems, however, that this balance is fragile, and lasts only as long as the force holding it will last.

Inside, somewhere in the area of the plexus, the viewer has the same feeling that occurs when a shiny metal ball finally stops on the glass surface of the table and freezes, and every moment you expect it to begin its unpredictable movement again. And the longer you look at the torso, the more you spend internal forces to maintain its balance, and the more effort it requires. So the author seeks to give the viewer to feel the moments of harmony.

"Tsar of the Woods"

The ancestors of modern humanity, the son of Prometheus Deucalion and his wife Pyrrhus, fleeing from the flood, came to the mountains of Epirus in the North of modern Greece and founded the settlement of Dodona, named by them in honor of Zeus the Savior and the nymph who interceded for them. Precisely hence is happening kind of Hellenes, who gave world many glorious heroes-prophets, "that sleep on earth naked and listen to great Zeus’s will coming from the high oak" (from Achilles’s prayer).Thanks to their endless efforts the civilization of heroic humanism has experienced several rebirths restoring its development.

The sculpture Tsar of the Woods reminds us of one of such heroes-prophets - George Fraser. George Fraser, the author of the "Golden Branch", devoted his life to collecting and analyzing a huge amount of ethnographic material, investigated the relationship between modern religions and primitive beliefs, the causes of religious worldview and trends in its development in the future. The Art of great work, eternally aimed at finding the truth about Man, emerges for the civilization as a bridge connecting the past with the present, which allows us to hope for the future.

"Silenus"

Silenus is an ancient Titan who has lived in all five ages of mankind. He has walked the earth up and down, seen everything, participated in something, and can tell a lot to a courteous companion. The courtesy of king Midas with Silenus is generously rewarded by Dionysus, whose tutor Silenus appeared, but under one condition: the request must be accurate.

Silenus's stories about the events of the past seem to the unprepared listener just an entertaining fiction. But this is the problem of the listener, since honest Silenus always tells the truth and does not invent anything. The difficulty of understanding Silenus lies in the fact that he tells about such a deep antiquity of mankind that the awareness of it is becoming more and more available only in our days and among the listeners of Silenus there appear more and more interlocutors.

Silenus, who saw the youth of our world, as the tutor of Dionysus, taught his pupil a lot. Apollo spends three winter months in Hyperborea so Dionysus substitute for Apollo in Delphi filling the sphere of art with freedom, fantasy, something that is beyond the borders of the known. The combination of Reason and fantasy gives Man a chance to learn himself and mysteries of the Universe.

"Amazone"

In addition to the ability to think logically, a person is endowed with various feelings, among which intuition is most closely related to thinking. Like a bright flash intuition helps to head in the right direction. Since intuition is associated with the female essence, the image is given the form of a female torso, the smooth outlines of which convey fleeting and elusive visions and images of the truth. But a sudden guess like lightning strikes us, awakening our imagination and creativity.

Man is granted with five senses among which intuition seems to be the most closely connected to the ability of rational thinking. Intuition is like a flask which helps to follow the right direction. As intuition is associated with female essence it is depicted as a marble candleholder in a shape of a female torso, which soft forms emphasize vague and ephemeral visions and images of the Truth.

A sudden guess strikes you as a lightning and awakens imagination and creativity. At first sight the polished marble female torso seems static but, in a few seconds,, one feels the rhythm of pulsing energy in every curve of the ideal body.

"Centaur Chiron"

Centaur Chiron is an educator of the tribe of heroes whose task is to destroy chimeras and illusions. Once progressive, some ideas and notions that are ingrained in people 's minds eventually turn out to be incorrect, inaccurate, and therefore false.Here comes the hero who dares to break the veil of inaccurate ideas about the subject and thus give way to a new, more correct vision of reality.In addition to mythological heroes, humanity testifies to such heroes as ancient Greek natural philosophers, or, for example, to such historical characters as Bruno, Copernicus, Darwin, Mendeleev, Tsiolkovsky, and many others who changed humanity's understanding of the key issues of existence.

The wisdom of ancient Greek mythology brought us the image of the centaur Chiron which is the chimerical combination of man and horse as an honest testimony to the relationship of Indo-Europeans with the autochthonous population of the European continent in ancient times.Having absorbed various genetic codes and the wisdom of two cultures, Chiron realizes the duality of his nature, but in this understanding of himself rises above it, opening up space for self-development.This is the hero's path. Later, being accidentally wounded by his friend Heracles and suffering unbearable torment from an arrow imbued with the poison of the Lernaean Hydra, Chiron renounces his immortality in favor of Prometheus. So, having received a fatal blow from the chimera of the past, Chiron finds a way into the future.

The educator of the Chimera fighters himself appears in the form of a Chimera at the very moment when the hazy chimeric veil of the past burns in the flame of Reason revealing the true state of things of the present tothe inquisitive mind's eye.

The image of Centaur Chiron serves as a reminder of a hero’s main aspiration for all times.

"Proteus"

Proteus is the master of the secrets of the proto sea, a clairvoyant, a witness to the birth of the ancient world. He does not know how to lie, but in order to make him speak, a questioner must bound Proteus by an exact question and be ready not be frightened by the most bizarre form of Proteus’s answer. The truth is often shocking. With a strong memory, Proteus remembers the time of his youth.It was a time of active colonization of Atlantis. Proteus lived on a small island at the mouth of the Nile, which served the Atlanteans as a lighthouse on the way to Egypt. The chief Navigator of the ancient world, he alone knows the right way Home from anywhere in the Mediterranean Sea, knows how to make the favorable wind blow.

Legendary Atlantis is 11.5 thousand years old. That was the time the last Ice Age was coming to an end and the modern shape of the European continent was formed. The time of the birth, existence and destruction of Atlantis is beyond the limits of the Middle East creation myth. Atlantis is a different ancient world inhabited by Titanic peoples. Studying the time of Atlantis clarifies the formation of modern humans. It is not by chance that the map of the capital of Atlantis in the form of concentric circles with crosshairs of channels has become for us a target symbol.