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Maxim Bondarenko, Snail, 2026


CULTUREEDIT ART AUCTION #8
Maxim Bondarenko
Maxim Bondarenko, Snail, 2026

Condition: New
$700.00

Details

Oil pastel on black paper

12" x 18"

The shell in the shape of a golden heart. Does it mean if you have one, your next life will be.. I drew it a couple months ago and reworked recently. Since then I can't stop finding more and more symbols! As today - flowers next to Infinity. So red as a wound, but they're Uncultured Carnations. It's easy to guess what their multitude means for the snail sliding eights on the edge of its home touching man's lip with its antennae. That home suits more an Ocean Oyster. Beneath its contemplative atmosphere, the work also has its quiet irony. The snail, traditionally associated with slowness and insignificance, becomes a subtle inversion of the “Butterfly Effect.” The shell opens alternate realities such as man's "new" eye, you may notice it merely as an impression. Rumi-nation. More than anything it reminds me a maze and a Moebius strip. I' amazed, I'm stripped. Who's that guy? Snail's new in-carnation? God's eye? Bad pun - Iconic. That's fun! Phony me! I need more Cones in my art:
Snail
I think God is Language. 
When it's not Time.
When it's not Nonsense,
My anguish
that spilled liquid gold
on that shell
as a bizarre mother pearl.
What the hell!
Didn't you choose your next incarnation,
Little snail
Little bit stuck
In Eternity mode?
Red carnations as every bit aren't senselessly there.
In their defense
They read like a wound.
It feels so
With no bound.
to Explore
God.
God's way is God's 'Why?'.
Language? Yes.
But not as an instrument.
Instrument is
never an actor.
Not is as consummate,
But merely a cause
In between
Of an actor and roles.
What is actually gay in doing a guy?
When even a snail knows:
God is a Giant Euphemism!
What is not God: controls
In the late stages of capitalism
Attempting to buy
More of this God.
To get more Time
to shop in eternity coldness
that's called -
a Choice
To explore
God. 

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Maxim Bondarenko

Maxim Bondarenko is a Russian artist based in Sacramento, California. He was born in Soviet Union, and lived in Moscow before the country’s political climate turned increasingly repressive towards gay people. Max relocated to the U.S., where he rediscovered his creative inspiration. During his time in America, he had few collective exhibitions and one solo show in Sacramento in 2022. Maxim’s work is rooted in academic art traditions and Impressionism, with a deep focus on color. He views color theory almost like a religion—it’s central to his practice and the lens through which he approaches every piece, seeing evidence of the Transcendental in it. He is fascinated by the clashes between warm and cool values and the dynamic tension of complementary colors, which he believes hold a unique, almost spiritual power. In his love of paradoxes, he often commits to pointillistic analysis of ephemeral optical illusions applied to the male physique, contrasting this with the viscous, bright, and vivacious impasto qualities of his flowers - two favorite subjects. While his art celebrates the beauty and sensuality of color, he also invites the viewer to pause and reflect “between pixels.” He hopes his work offers not just a visual escape, but also a subtle commentary on reality and a resistance to conformity.

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