No Man’s Art Gallery is honoured to present ANTSONG, Maxim Santalov’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Extending to both gallery spaces, ANTSONG shows the artist’s large body of intricately composed geometrical drawings that form a narrative of a rhythmic trail, moving through the planetary mesocosms of Santalov’s worlds. He reconstructs childlike reveries of the past, searching for their elements and atmospheres in the future.
“My work is my own insectarium, filled with vanishing species and unidentifiable creatures,” Santalov poses. Through his signature technique, he highlights the juxtaposition of the modern and the rural, the adult and the childlike, the harsh and the soft - while creating a need for motion, for a search and a pathway, amongst wandering insects, the dripping waters, falling stars and the explosive fires.