Fade out (2017)Oil painting
by Yaroslav Kurbanov

This work reflects on how an image disappears in memory. Like memories that with time erase even what once seemed impossible to forget, the image gradually loses its wholeness and breaks apart, like a screen during a bad connection — into pixels and fragments.

The face is still recognizable, but no longer whole. It fades not suddenly, but slowly, layer by layer, leaving gaps and voids. Memory works in the same way: it does not erase the past completely, but keeps only fragments — a glance, the line of the lips, a sense of presence.

The image turns into a mosaic, into a trace, into an echo of itself. Here, fade out is not just a visual effect, but a metaphor for fading: for how time and memory gradually turn living presence into a set of fragments from which the former wholeness can no longer be restored.

Materials used:

Canvas, Öl

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 45 x 45 x 3cm (framed) / 40 x 40cm (actual image size)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Geometric
• Subject: People and portraits

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