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A cycle connected with H. P. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine: the memory of civilizations, symbolic history and a philosophical view of humanity's development.
A cycle connected with H. P. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine: the memory of civilizations, symbolic history and a philosophical view of humanity's development.
These works function not as illustrations of texts, but as painterly reflections on measure, responsibility, the fragility of culture and the search for meaning in history.
The cycle turns to themes of cultural memory, the origin of civilizations, symbolic history and a philosophical view of humanity's development.
Myth and philosophical text become material for art for the artists, not a closed system of explanations.
The theme of Atlantis is a reflection on the fate of civilizations that lose their sense of measure.
Context
Acquaintance with The Secret Doctrine happened already in Kazakhstan: the book was entrusted to the artists for only twenty days, with a request for complete confidentiality. Grigory Kabachnyi made detailed notes, which he took with him to Chișinău.
This became a turning point in their outlook — an expansion of the horizon of themes: mythology, philosophical categories, the idea of cultural continuity merged into a single field of meaning.
Creation Story
Already in Chișinău, the direction deepened through acquaintance with the Roerich family's Teaching of Living Ethics. In painting this is not a subject for direct illustration, but a philosophical-cultural foundation.
The cycle includes The Fall of Atlantis, Early Atlantis, Easter Island (Lemuria), Isis — Divine Wisdom, Devachan, Sacred Island, And the Birds Return Home.
Also in the cycle
Through the Platonic subject of Atlantis, the artists reflect on the price of historical mistakes and the fragility of culture. The ancient Egyptian image of Isis introduces ideas of wisdom, measure and inner order.
Atlantis, Isis — Divine Wisdom, Lemuria
The memory of civilizations becomes a mirror for the present: about measure, responsibility and the limits of human power. Myth is read not literally but as a form of thought.
Sacred Island, Devachan, The Androgyne
Curator's Note
"The Fall of Atlantis" is not a catastrophic subject for effect's sake. It is a question addressed to the viewer: what happens to a culture when it loses its measure?
View the cycle as a philosophical parable. Here history is not a chronicle but a way of speaking about the present.