Kasteev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1995
On the white wall, in a free hanging, but in the rhythm found by the artist for the 500 x 800 cm-sized piece (although other sizes are possible), 7 objects of different dimensions of bizarre silhouettes were presented. The longest of them (24 x 492), similar to the profile of a flying saucer, was a kind of horizon line (otherwise called by the artist—the slit of the fountain), above which six forms formed by the contact of the boundaries of the body and air (emptiness) were placed. Among them is the so-called board, which will be used more than once by the artist in different compositions. Pulota (a neologism of the artist, created from the words emptiness and completeness) means a through hole formed by a hand rolled into a tube.
These objects arose from the artist's fascination with the problem of "form-antiform", developed by him in painting for many years in connection with the Sterligov system, whose pupil Khalfin considered himself. Voids with material content were created intentionally by every child falling into snow or wet sand. The realization of the objects combined childish pranks and observations of the artist.
