Tidal memory
Acrylic, Oil Pastel on Canvas
31x24in
Not available
25 Artworks
Konstantin Danilov
Greece
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Konstantin Danilov (also known as Zmogk) is a Moscow-born painter and muralist based in Athens. His practice grew out of early work in 1990s Russian graffiti and later shifted toward studio-based painting, where color and structure became primary tools for exploring internal states shaped by lived experience.
His work focuses on boundary conditions: between inner and outer experience, stability and tension, adaptation and loss. Using layered color fields, semi-abstract landscapes, and restrained figurative traces, he examines moments of fragile balance, quiet pressure, and psychological transition over time.
A recurring method in his practice is the “active perimeter,” where the edges of the canvas function as an emotional membrane rather than a neutral frame. Color operates not decoratively, but as a carrier of pressure, memory, and slow transformation, inviting a sustained and attentive dialogue with the viewer.
His work focuses on boundary conditions: between inner and outer experience, stability and tension, adaptation and loss. Using layered color fields, semi-abstract landscapes, and restrained figurative traces, he examines moments of fragile balance, quiet pressure, and psychological transition over time.
A recurring method in his practice is the “active perimeter,” where the edges of the canvas function as an emotional membrane rather than a neutral frame. Color operates not decoratively, but as a carrier of pressure, memory, and slow transformation, inviting a sustained and attentive dialogue with the viewer.
Borderline states / Reloft Art gallery - Moscow, Russia
Spring 2020 / Fineart gallery - Moscow, Russia
Flashbacks / Triumph gallery - Moscow, Russia
Catalog Art Fair / Reloft ART gallery booth - Moscow, Russia
Catalog / Reloft ART gallery booth - Moscow, Russia
Ampersandshow / Knowngallery at Complexcon - Las Vegas, United States
Affordable Art Fair / Glo.Art gallery booth - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Awareness of space in time / Fineart gallery - Moscow, Russia
True Ли / Ruarts Foundation - Moscow, Russia
Artlife / Manege - Moscow, Russia
Boundless space… the possibilities of Burning Man, Sotheby’s and Burning man Project. Auction and exhibition / Sotheby's - New York, United States
10 anniversary / Mathgoth gallery - Paris, France
Land of stars / Fineart Gallery - Moscow, Russia
Apologia for delusions / Moscow Museum of modern art - Moscow, Russia
Urban Art Fair Paris / Carreau du Temple. NUNC! Gallery booth - Paris, France
Wall elements / Neurotitan gallery - Berlin, Germany
Urban Art Show / NUNC! Gallery - Grenoble, France
Enter the history / Moscow Museum - Moscow, Russia
A Major minority / 1AMgallery - San Francisco, United States
Aylin Kumdagezer- Masterpiece magazine. Cover and interview. Konstantin “Zmogk” Danilov
Bianca Kaan- Zmogk: The Artist’s Vision and Creative Process
Glo'art - Lanaken, Belgium
Montresso Art Foundation - Marrakesh, Morocco
Straat Museum, Netherlands
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