Evgeni Dybsky

In the blinding sun that falls through the light in Evgeni Dybsky’s studio, his paintings radiate an austere foreignness. Not that they frighten or even repulse the visitor. They emanate no vehement action, no silky seduction. Instead, they keep the visitor at a distance. In terms of tone, they are calm and determined. The dominant white is perfect and reticent; the portions that appear to be black at first glance soon prove to hold many...

In the blinding sun that falls through the light in Evgeni Dybsky’s studio, his paintings radiate an austere foreignness. Not that they frighten or even repulse the visitor. They emanate no vehement action, no silky seduction. Instead, they keep the visitor at a distance. In terms of tone, they are calm and determined. The dominant white is perfect and reticent; the portions that appear to be black at first glance soon prove to hold many secrets in store, while the colored parts are difficult to define at first and seem seethe with ferment. The paintings, which appear in pairs, are concerned with one another, not with the spectator, caught up in quiet, tense dialogues. Their magic only discloses itself with time. Their intensity of radiation only grows over the time the spectator requires to approach them.

from text of Wibke von Bonin