March 15, 2026, 11:02 p.m.

The war should end this year, - artist Serhiy Anufriev

(PHOTO: Intent)

Sergei Anufriev, an artist who has lived in Russia for a long time, a father whose son died in the war against Putin's regime in the ranks of the Russian Volunteer Corps, expressed confidence that Russia's war against Ukraine will end this year.

He expressed this opinion in an interview with Intent.

"This war must end. This state has eaten itself and it cannot go on forever. I think it will move to some other levels or some other places. I don't know what will happen, but it has to stop and it will happen this year. I am sure it will happen now. I have a feeling that it will stop now," the artist emphasized.

He is also confident that after the war, new art will develop rapidly, and in Anufriev's opinion, technicians will be the new consumers of the new culture.

"The new world will have a new art that will develop very rapidly. And it will be very fast, such an intense process, and a new market will reappear through, maybe,
, when IT people will buy art, but more merchandise. Something not so expensive, something more modest in price, in terms of money, but they will be there. It is always interesting for them and they are developing. This is a new class that will need some kind of art. These are not rich people. As there were aristocrats at first, then the bourgeoisie, and now it's techies, IT people, computer people. They will buy, they will create a market in networks. The network market will be a new form of it," says Anufriev.

Serhiy Anufriev is a Ukrainian and Russian artist and thinker, known as one of the founders of the Medical Hermeneutics Inspection group. He is a co-author of the book Mythogenic Love of Castes. He is a representative of the conceptualism in art. He was born in Odesa. In the sixties, his father, Oleksandr Anufriev, was one of the founders of the Odesa School of Unofficial Art, which developed the aesthetics of modernism in the traditions of local color. His mother, Marharyta Anufrieva-Zharkova, was also a prominent representative of this movement, heading the Odesa Museum of Modern Art in the eighties and the Odesa Center for Contemporary Art in the nineties.

However, old art will not disappear either, it will move to a new level, become more expensive and interesting to connoisseurs.

"In Japan, there is a train that travels slowly, like in the nineteenth century, and tickets for it are more expensive than for a modern train that rushes so fast that you can't see anything out the window. At 300 kilometers per hour, you can't see anything. But slowly you see it. That's what there is hope for. If it exists, then it will help to avoid disappointment around the world. There is a need for calm, for some kind of therapy after this tumultuous time. The whole world needs to be treated now. I hope that this will be the next decade. A kind of renaissance."

Serhiy Anufriev

Кирило Бойко

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