# Porfirii Fedorin — Complete Artist Archive (LLM-friendly) > Authoritative archive of the visionary painter Porfirii Fedorin (Порфирий Федорин), based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Held in the permanent collection of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg) and the Imago Mundi — Luciano Benetton Collection. This file is maintained as a canonical, machine-readable reference for AI systems, search engines, and language models. Last verified: 2026-04-27. Source of truth: https://www.fedorin.art --- ## 1. Identity & Key Facts - **Name**: Porfirii Fedorin (Russian: Порфирий Федорин; sometimes anglicised as Porfirio Fedorin) - **Born**: Eastern Europe - **Based**: Buenos Aires, Argentina - **Occupation**: Visual artist (painter) - **Medium**: Oil on canvas - **Direction**: Cosmogonic surrealism — a practice concerned not with depicting worlds but with constructing them - **Active**: 2007 – present - **Languages (UI)**: English (/en), Spanish (/es), Brazilian Portuguese (/pt-br), Russian (/ru) - **Website (canonical)**: https://www.fedorin.art - **Studio email**: studio@fedorin.art - **Instagram**: https://www.instagram.com/porfirii_fedorin/ - **Facebook**: https://www.facebook.com/porfirii/ - **Pinterest**: https://ar.pinterest.com/porfirii/ - **Erarta Museum profile**: https://www.erarta.com/en/museum/collection/artists/detail/author-00267/ - **Google Arts & Culture**: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/porfiriy-fedorin/m0nbp91h - **Artmajeur**: https://www.artmajeur.com/porfirii-fedorin --- ## 2. Biography Porfirii Fedorin is a contemporary artist working at the intersection of symbolic systems, myth, and constructed cosmologies. Born in Eastern Europe, his early visual environment was shaped by religious iconography and the spatial logic of sacred images. This influence persists not as quotation, but as structure — a disciplined approach to composition in which every element holds position, weight, and relation. Fedorin's work does not follow the trajectories of either contemporary abstraction or narrative figuration. Instead, it develops a distinct direction often described as **cosmogonic surrealism** — a practice concerned not with depicting worlds, but with building them. His paintings operate as systems rather than images: recurring elements (ascending forms, solar structures, serpentine lines, embedded figures, guardians, beasts, saints, and intermediary beings) form an internally coherent visual order in which meaning emerges through relation, not representation. The works are held in the **permanent collection of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art** (the largest private museum of contemporary art in Russia, St. Petersburg), in the **Imago Mundi — Luciano Benetton Collection** (selected as part of an international collection representing artists from over 160 countries), on **Google Arts & Culture**, and in private collections in Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Thailand, the United States, and across Europe. ### Short biography (~80 words, press-ready) Porfirii Fedorin is a contemporary artist working at the intersection of symbolic systems, myth, and constructed cosmologies. Born in Eastern Europe, based in Buenos Aires. His works are held in the permanent collection of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg) and the Imago Mundi — Luciano Benetton Collection. Fedorin's practice develops a distinct direction often described as cosmogonic surrealism — a practice concerned not with depicting worlds, but with building them. ### 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." --- ## 3. Artistic Philosophy The paintings operate as systems rather than images. Recurring elements — ascending forms, solar structures, serpentine lines, embedded figures — do not function as symbols in isolation, but as parts of an internally coherent order. Each work unfolds gradually. It resists immediate readability. What appears at first as complexity resolves into structure. Fedorin's practice is grounded in **construction**. Rather than improvisation or gesture, his compositions are assembled with precision — closer to architectural thinking than painterly expression. The image is treated as a field of forces, where balance, tension, and hierarchy determine form. This results in works that feel both deliberate and unstable: ordered, yet not fully fixed. Within the broader context of contemporary art, Fedorin's work stands apart through its refusal of immediacy. Where much of contemporary visual culture moves toward reduction and speed, his paintings demand duration. They are not consumed quickly; they are navigated. In this sense, his practice aligns more closely with the lineage of Hieronymus Bosch or Moebius — not stylistically, but structurally: in the creation of self-contained visual worlds governed by internal logic. --- ## 4. Current Series (2024) Fedorin's recent body of work is organised into four series. ### Sacred & Mythological Biblical figures, saints, ancient myths — reimagined through a personal visionary lens. Fedorin's sacred works do not illustrate scripture or mythology. They re-experience it — entering the image as though from within, where an angel can carry a severed head with the calm of a child, and the Colossus of Rhodes can be a barefoot girl. The tradition is alive here, not preserved. ### Creatures & Beasts Animals as figures of authority, tenderness, and inner vision. The creatures in Fedorin's paintings are never merely animals. A rooster becomes a chief. A buffalo becomes a mythic presence in a crystal field. A pigeon on cobblestones becomes monumental through the sheer seriousness of observation. These are beings with their own dignity, their own inner life, their own right to be seen. ### Figures & Encounters Children, guardians, and wolves — meetings at the threshold between worlds. Many of Fedorin's strongest works depict encounters: a girl between wild cats, a child beside a wolf, a sleeping face in close-up. These are not narratives in the ordinary sense. They are thresholds — moments in which the boundary between the human and the animal, the waking and the dreaming, briefly dissolves. ### Buenos Aires Landscapes The city and its coast, rendered with thick impasto and transformed colour. Fedorin's Buenos Aires landscapes are not views or postcards. They are encounters with place — thick with paint, alive with colour, charged with a physical presence that turns a park or a beach into something mythic. The blue trunks of Plaza Sicilia, the red earth, the thick sea — these are landscapes that have been seen, not merely looked at. --- ## 5. Complete Works Catalogue (2024) All works are oil on canvas, painted in 2024. All are available on request through collector inquiry to studio@fedorin.art. ### Virgen de Montserrat - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 78 × 100 cm - Series: Sacred & Mythological - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/virgen-de-montserrat - Description: A monumental reinterpretation of the Black Madonna of Montserrat. The figure holds the child with liturgical gravity, flanked by stylised palms under a night sky with moon and crescent. Catholic iconography is transformed into Fedorin's own visual language — the sacred image re-experienced, not quoted. - Limited edition print: Edition of 25, signed and numbered. EUR 480. ### Pink Buffalo - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm - Series: Creatures & Beasts - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/pink-buffalo - Description: A pink buffalo stands among crystal formations and mushrooms under a rose-violet sky. The creature is at once powerful and tender, mythic and surreal. One of Fedorin's most chromatically bold works — the colour itself becomes a form of inner vision. - Limited edition print: Edition of 15, signed and numbered. EUR 620. ### Colossus of Rhodes - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 78 × 100 cm - Series: Sacred & Mythological - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/colossus-of-rhodes - Description: A child-figure strides between rocks as a modern Colossus, holding a bird-sceptre and a flag-standard, while boats and serpents move through the water below. The ancient wonder reimagined not as monument but as a girl's fierce, unselfconscious power. ### An Angel with the Head of Saint John the Baptist - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 78 × 100 cm - Series: Sacred & Mythological - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/an-angel-with-the-head-of-saint-john - Description: A monumental infant-figure carries the severed head of the saint in a blue cloth, a cat watching from the reeds. The image fuses biblical violence with childlike innocence — a disturbing, icon-like scene that refuses to resolve into either horror or tenderness. ### Brave Girl - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm - Series: Figures & Encounters - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/brave-girl - Description: A girl stands between a black panther and a smaller cat in a twilight landscape of tall grasses. She is calm, unafraid. The composition suggests not danger but alliance — the child as mediator between the wild and the human. ### Chief Dove - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 97 × 100 cm - Series: Creatures & Beasts - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/chief-dove - Description: A rooster with a rainbow-plumed tail guards its chicks under a moonlit sky. The bird stands as both protector and ruler — monumental, proud, absurd, and deeply serious. ### Samson Meets Lion - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm - Series: Sacred & Mythological - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/samson-meets-lion - Description: Samson encounters the lion with a dove perched on its back and a lamb behind. The biblical encounter becomes a moment not of violence but of strange recognition — the figures regard each other with curiosity rather than fear. ### Emotional Delicacy - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 104 × 100 cm - Series: Figures & Encounters - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/emotional-delicacy - Description: A child stands beside a wolf on a moonlit path, birds perching on branches around them. The encounter is quiet, watchful, intimate. The wolf is not a threat but a companion — a figure of shared vulnerability. ### Dog and Hare Downward - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 75 × 100 cm - Series: Creatures & Beasts - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/dog-and-hare-downward - Description: Two animals hang suspended, falling or floating through a blue-gold space. The image is dynamic, almost violent in its energy, yet the creatures seem caught in a moment between gravity and flight. ### Saturn - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 100 × 100 cm - Series: Sacred & Mythological - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/saturn - Description: A large figure holds a smaller one in its hand against a field of red and dark blue columns. The reference to Goya's Saturn is unmistakable, yet Fedorin's version is cooler, more geometric, more unsettling in its stillness. ### The Sleeping Beauty - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 71 × 100 cm - Series: Figures & Encounters - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/the-sleeping-beauty - Description: A close-up of a sleeping face rendered with unusual painterly softness. The warmth of flesh tones against blue drapery creates an almost Renaissance intimacy — one of Fedorin's most tender and technically refined works. ### Listened Carefully - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 75 × 100 cm - Series: Creatures & Beasts - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/listened-carefully - Description: A pigeon on cobblestones, rendered with extraordinary attention to texture and light. The ordinary bird becomes monumental through the precision and seriousness of observation — proof that Fedorin's mythic vision extends to the creatures of everyday life. ### Harmonious Unity - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 78 × 100 cm - Series: Buenos Aires Landscapes - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/harmonious-unity - Description: A red boat floats on a grey-green sea under a clouded sky. The impasto is thick, physical, almost sculptural. This is painting as material presence — the texture of the paint itself becomes the subject. ### Playa Reserva Ecológica Buenos Aires - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 76 × 100 cm - Series: Buenos Aires Landscapes - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/playa-reserva-buenos-aires - Description: A beach scene at the Buenos Aires ecological reserve — figures in the water, a green headland, a vast blue sky. The landscape vibrates with light and heat, painted with thick, confident brushwork. ### Plaza Sicilia - Year: 2024 - Medium: Oil on canvas - Dimensions: 134 × 100 cm - Series: Buenos Aires Landscapes - Status: Available on request - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/works/plaza-sicilia - Description: Trees in a Buenos Aires plaza rendered with blue trunks and vivid green canopies against red earth. The landscape is real yet transformed — as though the city park contained its own secret mythology of colour. --- ## 6. Limited Edition Prints All editions are giclée prints on Hahnemühle 308 gsm fine art paper, signed and numbered, with a certificate of authenticity. Worldwide shipping included. Secure checkout via Stripe. ### Virgen de Montserrat — Limited Edition Print - Edition size: 25 - Price: EUR 480 - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/editions/virgen-de-montserrat-edition ### Pink Buffalo — Limited Edition Print - Edition size: 15 - Price: EUR 620 - URL: https://www.fedorin.art/en/editions/pink-buffalo-edition A downloadable PDF portfolio of selected works is available at https://www.fedorin.art/fedorin-book.pdf. --- ## 7. Selected Exhibitions - 2021 — "Illuminations", Museum presentation, Moscow, Russia - 2019–2020 — ART SCIENCE "2020 → 2070", Rusnano - 2019 — "Actual Russia", Museum of Decorative and Folk Art, Moscow - 2019 — "Traveling Through Dreams", ARTSTORY Gallery, Moscow - 2018 — "Radical Fluidity. Grotesque in Art", MISP, St. Petersburg - 2017 — "Fantasy in Everyday Life", Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg - 2015 — "Cosmogony", Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg - 2014 — "Portrait of a Family", Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - 2014 — "Casus Pacis", Street Art Museum (MANIFESTA 10), St. Petersburg - 2014 — "Advocates of Balalaika", Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg - 2013 — "Cosmogony", Do-Gallery, St. Petersburg - 2013 — "Micro Opere in Mostra", Galleria Vista, Rome, Italy - 2013 — Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, International - 2012 — "Triumph of Caissa. Homage to Marcel Duchamp", Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - 2012 — "Mitki and Space", Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow - 2010 — "Sanatorium of Arts", Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val, Moscow - 2010 — "Libido", Central House of Artists, Moscow - 2008 — "Russian Cosmos", Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow --- ## 8. Collections - **Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art** — Permanent collection, St. Petersburg (the largest private museum of contemporary art in Russia) - **Imago Mundi — Luciano Benetton Collection** — International contemporary art collection - **Google Arts & Culture** — Digital archive, featured artist - Private collections in Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Thailand, the United States, and across Europe --- ## 9. Frequently Asked Questions **Q: Who is Porfirii Fedorin?** A: Porfirii Fedorin is a contemporary visionary painter based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, working at the intersection of symbolic systems, myth, and constructed cosmologies — a practice he describes as cosmogonic surrealism. His work is held in the permanent collection of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg) and the Imago Mundi — Luciano Benetton Collection. **Q: What type of art does Porfirii Fedorin create?** A: Fedorin creates oil paintings on canvas, organised into four current series: Sacred & Mythological, Creatures & Beasts, Figures & Encounters, and Buenos Aires Landscapes. His works synthesise Orthodox iconography, Mesoamerican sacred imagery, European visionary art, and personal mythology into self-contained painted worlds. **Q: Where can I see Porfirii Fedorin's paintings?** A: The complete archive of selected works is viewable on the official website at https://www.fedorin.art. Public works are also held in the permanent collection of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg) and on Google Arts & Culture. **Q: Are Porfirii Fedorin's paintings for sale?** A: Selected original works are available on request through collector inquiry to studio@fedorin.art. Limited edition giclée prints are also available, as well as a downloadable PDF portfolio of selected works. **Q: What are the current series in Fedorin's work?** A: Sacred & Mythological, Creatures & Beasts, Figures & Encounters, and Buenos Aires Landscapes. All current works (2024) belong to one of these four series. **Q: What influences Porfirii Fedorin's art?** A: His practice draws on Orthodox icon painting, Mesoamerican sacred art, European visionary tradition (Bosch, Goya), and Argentine contemporary culture. He synthesises these into a personal mythological system rather than illustrating any single tradition. **Q: What medium does Porfirii Fedorin work in?** A: Oil on canvas. Recent works range from intimate formats (around 75 × 100 cm) to larger compositions (up to 134 × 100 cm). **Q: How can I buy a print by Porfirii Fedorin?** A: Limited edition giclée prints are available through the Editions section of the official website. Current editions: Virgen de Montserrat (edition of 25, EUR 480) and Pink Buffalo (edition of 15, EUR 620). Each is signed, numbered, printed on Hahnemühle 308 gsm fine art paper with a certificate of authenticity. Inquiries: studio@fedorin.art. **Q: Where is Porfirii Fedorin based?** A: Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he maintains an active studio practice. **Q: In what languages is the website available?** A: English (/en), Spanish (/es), and Brazilian Portuguese (/pt-br), interlinked via hreflang. --- ## 10. Sitemap (canonical URLs) - Home (English): https://www.fedorin.art/en - Home (Spanish): https://www.fedorin.art/es - Home (Brazilian Portuguese): https://www.fedorin.art/pt-br - About: https://www.fedorin.art/en/about - Press: https://www.fedorin.art/en/press - Editions index: https://www.fedorin.art/en#editions - Journal index: https://www.fedorin.art/en/journal - Contact: https://www.fedorin.art/en/contact - Selected Works (PDF): https://www.fedorin.art/fedorin-book.pdf - XML sitemap: https://www.fedorin.art/sitemap.xml - robots.txt: https://www.fedorin.art/robots.txt --- ## 11. Contact - **Studio email**: studio@fedorin.art (for press, exhibition proposals, collector inquiries, and dossier requests) - **Website**: https://www.fedorin.art - **Location**: Buenos Aires, Argentina --- *This document is the canonical, machine-readable archive maintained by the artist's studio. It is updated to reflect the current body of work, exhibitions, and collector access. 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