Porfiriy Fedorin
Painting as an Inner Cosmology

Painting as anInner Cosmology.

In Fedorin's work, painting does not describe a world; it brings one into being. Figures, beasts, saints, guardians, and intermediary beings inhabit a space where myth has not yet separated from memory, and the sacred has not lost its uneasy physical force.

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Oil on canvas201650 × 70 cm

The Many-Eyed Guardian

This is one of the works in which Fedorin's world discloses itself with exceptional clarity. The many-eyed condition here is neither decorative device nor fantastical excess. It operates as a form of extreme attention — almost supernatural, almost unbearable. This figure does not simply look. It exists in a state of perpetual seeing. The figure is at once monumental and vulnerable, severe and nearly tender. One senses in it the antiquity of an icon-like image, yet also a personal, nearly intimate strangeness, without which Fedorin's painting would not feel so alive. This is not a character from a legend. It is a being of inner necessity.

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Oil on canvas201650 × 70 cm

The Many-Eyed Guardian

This is one of the works in which Fedorin's world discloses itself with exceptional clarity. The many-eyed condition here is neither decorative device nor fantastical excess. It operates as a form of extreme attention — almost supernatural, almost unbearable. This figure does not simply look. It exists in a state of perpetual seeing. The figure is at once monumental and vulnerable, severe and nearly tender. One senses in it the antiquity of an icon-like image, yet also a personal, nearly intimate strangeness, without which Fedorin's painting would not feel so alive. This is not a character from a legend. It is a being of inner necessity.

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Oil on canvas2015100 × 120 cm

Teacher

Here Fedorin paints not the portrait of a person, but a figure of knowledge. Teacher exists as an image of inner verticality: not didactic, but concentrated; not rhetorical, but silent. The painting does not deliver a lesson — it becomes one, about attention, stillness, and the dignity of form. One feels here with particular force the almost icon-like seriousness of the artist. Yet that seriousness does not harden the image. On the contrary, it makes it unexpectedly human. It is this union of strictness and inward gentleness that gives the work its uncommon strength.

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Oil on canvas2011

Xochipilli

This work reveals Fedorin's openness to other mythologies and his ability to admit them into his own visual language without exoticizing or merely quoting them. The image is not cited; it is re-experienced — as though an ancient pantheon had entered the artist's private vision and, in doing so, changed while retaining its power. The work is especially important because one can already see here the formation of one of the artist's central strengths: the transformation of symbol into living presence.

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Oil on canvas2020

Overcoming Gravity

Here the image no longer merely stands before the viewer — it begins to move, to rise, to overcome the density of the world. This work is important because it shows one of the later inflections in Fedorin's painting: the mythic figure acting as transition, release, and inward ascent. There is less frontal stillness here, and more movement through the image. Yet the underlying logic remains the same: the painting does not depict an event; it makes one possible.

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Oil on canvas2019

Biotope

An organic environment as the birthplace of forms, creatures, and memory.

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Oil on canvas2021

Night Diamond

A nocturnal guardian figure that embodies dual nature: precious radiance and hidden essence. The Night Diamond explores the paradox of visibility in darkness — how certain truths and certain beings become visible only when the ordinary light of day recedes.

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To look here is to enter

Fedorin's paintings do not seek to be quickly consumed. They work otherwise: they hold the eye, slow perception, and generate a sense of inward pressure, as though the image were looking back as insistently as the viewer looks at it. For that reason, this site is built not around a flow of pictures, but around a gradual entry into a world.

Series

Series

For Fedorin, a series is not a curatorial convenience but the natural condition of the work itself. Each painting seems to know beside which images it belongs, to which figures it responds, and within which inner myth it resonates most fully.

2014–2021
Cosmogony

A cycle about the making of a world — its figures, its guardians, and its inner architecture.

In this series one sees most clearly that, for Fedorin, painting is not a reflection of the world but a means of constructing it. Space here is not pre-given; it comes into being together with the figure, the color, the gesture, and the pressure of form. The beings in these works do not merely inhabit the image — they participate in the creation of its laws. What may at first seem fantastical functions here as primary reality. For that reason, the series feels less like a cycle of paintings than like the slow formation of an entire universe.

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Teacher
Biotope
2007–2021
Illuminations

A series of visionary appearances, revelatory forms, and the tension between light and secrecy.

If in Cosmogony the world gathers itself, in Illuminations it flashes forth. This series is built on the suddenness of the image — the moment when form appears with such inward conviction that it seems less invented than seen. These works bring visionary freedom together with formal discipline. They hold the light of revelation, but also its shadow: anxiety, watchfulness, the sense that any image arrives accompanied by its own secret.

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Xochipilli
Overcoming Gravity
2016–2023
Guardians

Portraits of witness-beings, threshold figures of memory, vigilance, and uneasy protection.

Fedorin's guardian figures are not symbols of comfort or reassurance. They do not promise safety. They stand at the threshold. Their presence suggests not only protection, but vigilance, memory, and the tension between what is seen and what remains concealed. These are among the artist's strongest works because they gather so many of his essential forces at once: frontality and secrecy, tenderness and severity, childlike vision and almost liturgical gravity.

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The Many-Eyed Guardian
Night Diamond
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Editions & Collector Access

Editions are conceived as independent collectible objects. They preserve the atmosphere of the original and do not reduce the work to decorative reproduction.

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Night Diamond — Limited Edition
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About the Artist

About the Artist

Porfiriy Fedorin is an artist whose painting develops at the intersection of private mythology, sacred imagery, visionary freedom, and an almost archaic directness.

His works are populated by saints, beasts, guardians, demons, and intermediary beings that feel at once deeply personal and drawn from an older, collective layer of imagination.

Fedorin paints as though the image existed before the painting and had only been waiting for the moment to become visible.

Artist Statement

I am interested in the image that cannot be fully explained. Not the symbol as sign, but the figure as presence. Not plot, but the birth of a space in which a creature, beast, saint, or guardian begins to live by its own truth.

I want the painting not simply to depict, but to arise as a world in itself — with its own silence, its own unease, its own inward necessity.

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Moscow / Saint Petersburg