Leo Kropyvnytskyi wrote that "his paintings - a window open in the unknown world. This is not a transcendental world, not even the world of dreams or the subconscious. This world of space. Not that space, which write fiction. More precisely, he did not them, because that means the artist were different. He is not a naturalist, reconstructs environment of interplanetary travel. It conveys the feeling of the worlds environment, existing or not existing, and doing it convincingly. "
As often happens, the picture Vechtomov dispersed around the world, and most of the traces are lost. Four years ago, in the Tretyakov Gallery was an anniversary evening, but to collect work for retrospective failed. Managed to put only about 60 graphic works of the late 50's - early 60's, a tribute to the artist's enthusiasm for constructivism and abstraction. But before the entrance hung a two-meter "Road" - home, work program Vechtomov, his "Requiem of being" in the words of Sergei Kuskova; Appian Way, which leads to eternity in space.
"We live in darkness and have already gotten used to it, quite distinguish objects - he once opened Nemukhin. And yet we draw out the light from the sunset glow of the Cosmos, he is something and gives us energy vision. So important to me not objects, and their reflection, for in them lies the breath of an alien element. And in general, the old man, I wish that when I die, I was not buried in the ground, and was buried on an asteroid. "
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