Tvorogov Brothers: Fox's hat flew up

Fox’s Hat Flew Up is a project about the sensitive relationships of main characters with the world, where the ordinary becomes a fabulous motive.

The works of the Tvorogov Brothers resemble fragments of a cartoon or a puppet show. Artists use the languages of animation, comics, video games, book illustrations and puppet performances - the first visual languages that people get to know and use to form their worldview. Only instead of an entertaining story with a plot, the artists bring to the fore characters and the sensitive relationship they establish the with world, disclosing the fragile, but inextricable connection between fiction and reality.

Aleksey and Anton Tvorogov

Fox's hat flew up, 2021

Oil on wood

55 x 75 cm

Aleksey and Anton Tvorogov

Picture of a friend, 2021

Oil on wood

23 x 30 cm

Exhibition view at Lazy Mike Gallery

The works from these series introduce us to the fox and other inhabitants of the misty world. We can see a fox meeting a frog, thinking about a friend, hiding from a monster, examining a ladybug. It seems that there is a main character here, but he does nothing heroic. There may be a villain, but that's only a speculation. It seems to us that a fairy tale is being told, only the plot eludes us. Artists create a story open for interpretation, where ordinary moments in which the characters are captured, become the main theme.