Angels

“Angels”

By Yuri and Evgenia Bezobrazov

Format: a composition of 3 objects, about 60 cm each

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The “Angels” composition consists of three independent figures about 60 cm tall, made of alder. Each is built from split, cleft boards: the natural line of the split is neither hidden nor smoothed away but kept as part of the sculpture and the character of the material. Two intersecting elements form a shape that refers to the sign of the cross and at the same time gives the conventional silhouette of an angel — utterly laconic, without a face and without attributes.

Splitting the wood in this work is not an effect or a decorative device but a principle. The split keeps the wood's own logic: the direction of the fibres, the inner tension, the chance and uniqueness of every fragment. The artist's role is not to subdue the material but to read it precisely: to choose the boards, preserve their “truth” and assemble them into a clear, strict structure. So two take part in the work — the wood with its natural line, and the author's hand with its measure, rhythm and discipline of form.

The three figures side by side carry a direct meaning: a reference to the Trinity, to faith and spiritual concentration. The composition does not tell a story or try to “illustrate” a religious subject; it offers a calm, clear sign in which the repetition and the difference of the three figures matter, like the harmonious sound of a single motif.

The composition can be perceived as a musical structure: one motif, three voices. The repetition is not mechanical — it gives rhythm and measure, while the differences between the figures work like timbre and intonation, creating the sense of a choir: gathered, quiet, without outward expressiveness but with inner precision.

In their sculpture and attitude to the material, the “Angels” rest on the traditions of the Russian North: respect for wood as a carrier of time, restraint and precision of form, the ability to say much with little. At the same time the work exists as contemporary small sculpture: separate stands, hand-forged metal rods and a clean construction translate an image archaic in spirit into the language of today's interior — from a minimalist space to a home full of natural textures.