NUMBERS
AS ART

Art project by Ilia Buslakov

NUMBERS
AS ART

Art project by Ilia Buslakov

They draw women, faces, hands, trees, flowers, fruits and even carpets. Paint artists, poets and musicians. And how many colors of the rainbow are there? How many letters, notes? How old are you? What is your height? How many times have you loved?

Numbers...
They are everywhere.
There are more of them than grains of sand in the desert, than stars, atoms, molecules, and all this combined

find out more

Canvas 60x90 cm, acrylic. 2022.

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Reads clearly

Canvas 40x60 cm, acrylic. 2021.

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Three different silvers. The numbers are one after the other. The first is 4. I often say that the number should be read unambiguously, but sometimes there are defects — and here it is. I realized this when the work was already done. Try to find.

Canvas 40x60 cm, acrylic. 2021.

419

Easy to read :)

Canvas 40x60 cm, acrylic. 2021.

421

Canvas 40x60 cm, acrylic. 2021.

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The tray is a stretched number 4. The glass consists of two symmetrical halves — the numbers 5 and 2.

The number 4 is in the foreground, followed by the number 2, behind which the number 1 peeks out.

Cardboard, acrylic. 2021.

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In the photo Ilya Oshi @ilya_o_she. Mega cool and very versatile guy, able to sit on the air.

Bottle of wine, acrylic. 2021.

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Things are not what they seem...

Canvas 40x40 cm, acrylic. 2021.

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Nothing special. Could it be an earthworm cut in half by a child? The left figure consists of two intersecting numbers 4, the right figure is the number 8.

Canvas 40x40 cm, acrylic. 2021.

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The numbers are written in black. Number 4 is just above the center. Number 2 wraps around number 4. Number 3 wraps around numbers 4 and 2.

Canvas 40x40 cm, acrylic. 2021.

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This is not Malevich's Black Square. "Ч" (Russian letter) — number 4. Square — number 0. "M" - number 3, rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Canvas 40x40 cm, acrylic. 2021.

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It is read by red crosses. There is no prehistory here, but you can guess and say that this is a common cemetery from the time of the civil war in Russia a century ago.

This is a project about art created from numbers. Among the works are: painting, art objects, tattoos, photographs and much more

Wood 5x5x5 cm, nails, acrylic (2019). How to read numbers: the number is read from above.

What is the place of numbers in art? They are on the pages of books, sometimes in the title of musical works, in the size of paintings, in the inventory number of a museum exhibit. But are they boring? Do they have a soul?

I do not think so.
Every number is unique and in this project it will be different from what you are used to.

Understand better