ICUL CTION meets ART A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Ivan Arkhipov I have experimented with different techniques, mainly etching, dry point, linocut, woodcut and painting, also created animated films. Resistance of material has an influence on our attitude and image perception. Metal got scratched and torn, lines became cuts. When you make it you had to lay yourself out, to get angry, to resist, to sweat, while still enjoying the process. Perception of reality mute out and we came into a trance. My works is a result of this process. And this technique states importance of the process above the result. In 2019 I worked at a Chinese village located 50 kilometers from Beijing - in the Shangyuan art residence, where I have been staying for 3 summer months. Residence lacked of necessary equipment for creative work in printmaking techniques, specifically the most important - etching press to create prints on paper in the dry point technique. I used as a press a large stone that I had been found nearby. With that stone I was able to print a series of four prints (“Stone” and “Passions” series) , and also I have created about 10 more works in woodcut, linocut techniques and paintings. When I returned to Moscow, in the wave of pandemic 2020, this idea formed further. This experience in Shangyuan allowed me to look at a lot of things from a new perspective and I continued to work. This restriction in the material, this location and complete isolation from the comfort zone-all this eventually formed this work and allowed us to look at a lot of things from a new perspective. Experience is something you’ve never done. The deeper you go, the more frightful this experience is. By combining printed graphics, objects and animations, I want to talk about person, person loneliness in the world, about seeking and delusions, about gradually gained experience. An interview by , curator leaning towards expressing myself through and , curator different forms of creativity. I could draw or sculpt for hours. Creative process was always the best game for me, and at the same time – Hello Ivan and welcome to ARTiculAction: we self-evolution and world cognition. I didn’t would like to invite our readers to visit understand all that then though, it was just http://ivanarkhipov.com in order to get a wide interesting – to form new worlds inside my idea about your artistic production, and we works. For example, in my notebooks I have would like to start this interview with a couple of been making up widescale stories and questions regarding your background. You have different surprising situations for my a solid formal training and you graduated from characters, not really putting my mind the faculty of graphic design at MIEM NRU through plot and consistency of the story. In Higher school of Economics: how did this the end, such unconscious, childlike approach experience address your evolution as an artist? for art became primary for me and influenced all my further actions. Growing up I tried not Ivan Arkhipov: Since my early childhood I was to lose it and kept appreciating individuality. I