Denis Forkas Kostromitin creates eccentric beauty with his pen, his blood, his salt and his canvases. His paintings and illustrations have a dark fury about them; they are foggy and dark, and swirl with movement that gives the viewer a sense that there is more happening in the canvas than sight alone can perceive. Indeed, his work seems to play with all of the senses, seeming to encompass the viewer with smell and taste and noise that blows against one’s skin with fetid warmth or sharp iciness. Forkas cites the art of the Ancient Greeks and the Renaissance as inspirations, but he also incorporates mysticism and ritual practices into his work.Â
