Luminiscense

In the late 1910s, Aleksei Kudriashov, carpenter and father of the artist Ivan Kudriashov, a student – later – of Kazimir Malevich, visited the Russian city of Kaluga several times to help engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovskii make out of wood his space rocket models. The young, then, Ivan Kudriasov accompanied his father on these visits and actually helped to create spaceship miniatures, based on Tsiolkovskii's technical drawings. Visits to Tsiolkovskii's workshop made such a strong impression on Ivan Kudriashov that he was inspired and developed the concept of "Cosmism", a way of "space painting". His work "Luminescence” intends to show remnants of a flight path, or at least traces of its flare energy, even if it has already begun to curve along the inclined trajectory of interplanetary space travel.