Paintings : Not easily deciphered by normal codes of logic.

Recently I began a discussion with an Artist about his work and his life. He lives in the United Kingdom but he is from Israel. Over the course of our getting to know each other, a significant dialogue has  developed. His background and story reads like many young men growing up in the Middle East along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Jews from around the world have brought their culture and religious traditions with them, creating a melting pot of Jewish customs and beliefs......and Israel's substantial Arab minority has also left its imprint on Israeli culture in such spheres as Architecture, music and cuisine.

Israeli literature is primarily poetry and prose written in Hebrew....a language spoken since the mid-19th century.

VLADIMIR ZACHODIN.

We talk about his childhood and his family and also his start in a career in Architecture.
He wasn't happy in that profession and is now pursuing his painting.....they are autobiographical.

Many nights we talk about analysis of the cross-references and connections in painting.....we speak about mutating self-portraits and erotic fantasies/ fears/mythology all overlayed with the re-interpretation of various artistic sources....Surrealism/ Renaissance/ Expressionist....all to create a labyrinthine field that is not easily deciphered by normal codes of logic.


I leave him most nights, wondering about the term nomadic....a nomadic existence is when you deliberately change geographic and cultural perspective with an almost disciplined regularity.


Vladimir lives for trying to stay true to his plight and by working in his chosen field.....painting in all its manifestations....rich in his knowledge of those who have come before him....he produces a highly imaginative order of works with attempting to evoke an idea by various associated images.

VLADIMIR ZACHODIN.

I am totally absorbed with other ways in which artist's work....how we all think and where it all comes from....this Israeli is unique...in that he paints solo in a country far from the idyllic.