Eugenio Shapoval

The Shape of Memory marks a pivotal moment of creative and ethical reclamation in Eugenio Shapoval’s practice. This series embodies the artist’s return to the essential core of his work: an unfiltered, necessary form of expression driven by instinct rather than analysis. 

Characterized by radical velocity and stark contrast, Shapoval’s compositions are dominated by bold, sweeping strokes of black and white. These gestures assert the artist’s fundamental imperative: “I live.” The immediacy of each mark resists the confines of intellectual structure, allowing the raw, intuitive act of painting to become both declaration and release. 

Texture plays a critical role in this visual language. Dense, tactile surfaces anchor the fleeting energy of the gesture, serving as the materialized memory of the artist’s past practice, geological traces of experience that reveal the tension between permanence and impermanence. 

For Shapoval, memory is not nostalgia but energy inherited, embodied, and reimagined. The works in The Shape of Memory offer viewers a mirror for self-recognition, an invitation to feel deeply, and a reminder that art, at its truest form, is an act of living. 
 

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