MUST SINIVALGEL

The wall painting “Must sinivalgel” is the first composition in the series Muta Poesis, created during the NART residency in Narva.

“Muta poesis, pictura loquens” (Latin for “silent poetry, speaking painting”) is a famous dictum originally attributed to the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos and transmitted by Plutarch.

The surface is divided into five horizontal and three vertical zones. The movement across it combines a fixed sequence of zones with a spontaneous selection.

Rhythmic motifs such as 1,1,1,2,3 / 2,2,3,1 / 1,2,1,3,1,5 or 1,2,3,4,5,6 are extended and partly replaced by free entries.

“Must sinivalgel” is silent poetry: it makes visible the invisible rhythms of the Kreenholmi Manufaktuur.

In the context of Oleksiy Koval’s Narva Art Residency.

Oleksiy Koval is LOORE Artist-in-Residence at NART, funded by Nordic Culture Point (Additional funding to support Ukrainian Artists, residency funding module of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture).