novikov igor: "the art of resurrection of sky and earth. the sky which deprives us of life; the earth which absorbs us, still alive. in my work i am engaged in metaphysical problems, with mysticism, esoteric knowledge, magicformulas and religious observances. in my paintings i want to reveal the laws of preexistence and being, the mysteries of existence, the chaos and the cosmos, the masculine and feminine, the eros and thanatos"