This is one of the most interesting paintings by this artist from Murcia and one of his most accomplished compositions.

Charris’ figurative painting is generally defined as belonging to the metaphysical movement to which we could also add other artists from his generation like Dis Berlin (1959), Gonzalo Sicre (1967) or Joel Mestre (1966), among others.

His work acknowledges an evident influence of comics, of American film noir, of Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and of , as well as of photography and travel literature.

His works make constant citations and knowing nods to film stills, authors and artists, in this particular case to Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), but references to Hopper, Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1878) or Edward Ruscha (1937) also abound. He plays with images in imaginary landscapes where metaphors endeavour to lend a real appearance to a fictional world.

Snow is the central motif of this work, with the snow-covered landscape acting as a backdrop for the composition, a recurrent motif in some of his paintings. The clothes worn by the two characters also speak of a past time: the opening decades of the 20^th century, a time of explorers, of new beginnings and discoveries.

But the title suggests a completely different reading. The characters, frozen in space and time, are waiting for the arrival of Kazimir Malevich, the Russian suprematist painter, in what seems like a never-ending and impossible wait, judging from the disparity of styles between both artists: Charris’ flatness and figuration versus Malevich’s volume and abstraction.