With Wounded, I wanted to explore vulnerability. I looked for my protagonists in art history and tried to give a new voice to familiar subjects through the language of abstraction.
1. Bronze spatulate knife, ca 1600–1450 BCE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2. Magic knife fragments, ca. 1750–1640 B.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
3. Bronze spatulate knife, ca. 1600–1450 BCE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
4. Caravaggio, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, ca. 1601–1602 (detail)
Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Potsdam
5. Raphael, Lucretia, 1508–1510
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
6. Artemisia Gentileschi, Lucretia, about 1627 (detail)
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Digital image courtesy of Getty’s Open Content Program.
7. Joos van Cleve, The Death of Lucretia, ca. 1520–1525
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
8. Joos van Cleve, The Death of Lucretia, ca. 1520–1525 (detail) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
9. Oleg Komarov, Lucrecia, 2025 (detail)
from the series Wounded
10. Oleg Komarov, Caesar, 2025 (detail)
from the series Wounded
11. Oleg Komarov, Caesar, 2025
from the series Wounded
12. Lucio Fontana Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1962–63
Städel Museum, Online Collection
13. Vincenzo Camuccini
The Death of Julius Caesar, 1793–1799
14. Oleg Komarov, Prometheus, 2025
from the series Wounded
Exhibition view, Zollamt Galerie, Offenbach, Germany
15. Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty
Anatomie générale des viscères en situation, plate, 1752
16. Matteo di Giovanni
The Apostle Saint Bartholomew, ca. 1480
Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
17. Peter Paul Rubens
Prometheus Bound, ca. 1611–12
18. Oleg Komarov, Holofernes, 2025
from the series Wounded
19. Elephant Sword Indian, 15th–17th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
20. Titian
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, ca. 1570
22. Richard Avedon
Andy Warhol, Artist, New York City, 1969
21. Oleg Komarov, Andy, 2026
from the series Wounded