“Joyful Gallop”

Inspired by the wild horses of Camargue Nature Park (Arles, France) “Hot breath, the force of impression, clatter of hoofs break out from the world filled with colors. The colors are seething and form rushing storms of dynamic touches. The gallop of the horses cutting into the space of the picturesque canvas acquires for a moment materiality embodied in outline. It seems, however, that this moment is just instantaneous and the powerful streams of the wind will take away the rich palette of the work of art. Andrew Manaylo's horses are on the border of the live world and emotions. At first glance the abstract canvas all of a sudden presents us with the moment of seeing the live, hot flesh, radiates the heat of some powerful energy of aboriginal impression given by the well-known outlines, but then takes them all away at once at a given moment. And so it becomes immaterial whether it is simply illusion or a moment of reality, or perhaps our recreated memory or a move of the spirit embodied in the art of painting. Andrew has embodied his personal fascination with these noble, grandiose and strong animals by means of etheric picturesque figures. It is exactly the fairy world of the canvas, the dynamics of the forceful lines and the attention to the detail and at the same time the painter's generalizing ability that make us understand his reception and the perception of these creations. The emotions presented by the painter who was able to embody his love of horses, of these amazing animals that faithfully and truly have served the human kind for many centuries in a series of canvasses is boundlessly precious because they give birth to a new kind of seeing and perhaps to a new understanding of their essence, too.” Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky Advisor to the auction house „Christie's" and to "Sotheby's" Member of the Board of Directors' of "Association of Theatre Museum" in London, Life Member of the Union of benefactors of the Museum "Metropolitan" in New York.