# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BtEe3E6g-DH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045163-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/072ffd9ab2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-01-25T19:55:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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Pavel Pepperstein (b. 1966) is a Russian author and visual artist that works in drawing and painting to create fairytale-esque illustrations of landscapes and characters. Pepperstein’s works on paper reference historico-political movements, Russian folklore, linguistics, and science fiction. Describing his works as “psychedelic realist,” Pepperstein deals with existential themes with an aesthetic that was forged out of the Russian avant-garde. Using a compositional geometry similar to the Russian Suprematists, Pepperstein adds a fantastical quality to his minimalistic drawings that aligns them with the whimsy of children book illustrations while speaking to the socio-cultural history of Russia and the West. In 1987, Pepperstein co-founded the Inspection Medical Hermeneutics artists’ collective which began at a time when Russian was opening itself up as a nation to Western culture. The collective experimented with Western and Russian culture, and the nexus of ideologies that world powers inflict upon society. Pepperstein described the collective as producing “a thick mumble, white noise and other incomprehensible, unclear things.” Pepperstein’s masterful works on paper are playful illustrations, but also showcase a critical investigation into the world stage.
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#PavelPepperstein
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Image: Photograph by Matteo Lonardi, 2018. Courtesy of BBC News.

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