page_title: Protey Temen
section_title: Dobrotarism
hierarchical_section_title: Protey Temen / Works / Dobrotarism
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Протей Темен. Лист из серии «Атлас. Первая часть», гелевые чернила, акварельная бумага, 30х42 см.
context_page_description: Protey Temen is a contemporary artist, a multi-disciplinary media-artist whose works are often performed in the form of total installations, including graphics, video-art, sculpture, and painting. He is a teacher at the Design School of the National research university the Higher School of Economics.
context_section_description: The movement of Dobrotarism appeared in 2007, founded on the basis of the simplification of an image on a geometrical level, bright, contrasting colours and ostentatious joy. The basic goal of the artist during this period was the study of the models and structures of daily life. This resulted in the exhibition “Iconography of Dobrotarism”, held in the “Dom” (The House) cultural centre in 2007. From 2008 to 2009, within his “Post-Dobrotarism” cycle, Protey delved even deeper into abstract imaging, still remaining within the confines of his initial graphic language. “My work is about ritual, about the soul, about a kind of pure thing. And a number of symbols which I constantly used — masks, images, costumes — they are also about this pure thing. A text and an emotional experience would stand behind each picture. I came to this realisation just a short time ago, but it was true earlier too. That same Dobrotarism is mixed up in religion, in the basics of Russian icon-painting. In fact, I became drawn into the idea of identity. And what does identity mean? It is a system of signs and symbols”.
caption: Sheet from the series "Atlas. The first part ", ink, watercolor paper, 30x42 cm.
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