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In the late 1980s I stopped doing graphics and started painting. I clearly realized that I want to create artworks with no story but an artistic event through which I will talk about the problems of my spiritual life.
This task echoed the philosophical concepts studied by ontology. The development of this philosophical concept takes a worthy place in the world philosophy. Its analytical view is directed towards being, structure, properties, forms of being (material, ideal, existential), space, time, and movement. In other words, the ontology is the doctrine of the existent. Therefore, I decided to call the content of my artworks Ontologic Painting.
Doing graphic works mainly in the technique of etching by the end of the 1980s, I realized that a certain part of life, and especially of my work exhausted itself. I wanted to create artworks the content of which was not life but being. First I did not understand how they should look like. I felt as in a fairy tale Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What. So, I decided to use reverse logic and tried to understand first what there should NOT be in my paintings:
Then I determined what my paintings should contain. After all, a new step in painting and therefore new ideas require a conceptually new artistic aspiration in expressing the research realm of a spiritual being.
The meaning of Ontologic Painting should be captured almost instantly through a range beyond sensory sensations. These moments should make previously unfamiliar chords of an immanent spiritual life sound: