Valentin Gerasimenko. Etching. Object

Valentin Gerasimenko. Etching. Object

Valentin Gerasimenko. Etching. Object (graphics, objects).
Booklet. Valentin Gerasimenko’s project brings together a series of graphic work and printed forms or “plates”. The artist usually demonstrates the perfection of the art of printing, hiding the all-important technical aspect, the role of craftsmanship, from the viewer. Gerasimenko, however, has combined the tradition of engraving with a radical and unusual material — the beer can. Continue reading

Olga Tobreluts. Emperor and Galilean

Olga Tobreluts. Emperor and Galilean

Olga Tobreluts. Emperor and Galilean (sketches, graphics).
Booklet. Co-organized with the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Oslo Contemporary Art Museum (Norway). …The fact that it was Olga Tobreluts who was offered by the Norwegian part to create a series of pictures dedicated to Ibsen’s jubilee may well be regarded casual. Continue reading

Ludmila Belova. Save As…

Ludmila Belova. Save As…

Ludmila Belova. Save As… (video installation, objects).
Catalogue. Co-organized with Anna Akhmatova Museum (Fontanny Dom). St. Petersburg. Russia. Digital archives seem to be the best way of preserving national heritage. International museum world has been obsessed with the idea of transferring museum exhibits into digital format lately. The original is too fragile and unreliable, while in the digital database it becomes virtually everlasting. Continue reading

Alexandra Vertinskaya. Venice

Alexandra Vertinskaya. Venice

Alexandra Vertinskaya (Moscow). Venice (photography, graphics).
Curator- Nikolay Palazhchenko. When I recall a beautiful city, whether St. Petersburg, Paris or Venice, it is never classic postcards views that come to my mind. However splendid those Eiffel tower or Palace square are, I rather remember some quiet side street, unusual shop window or a tiny church. Continue reading

Early Novikov. Timur Novikov’s works of 80th

Early Novikov. Timur Novikov’s works of 80th

Early Novikov (painting, graphics). Timur Novikov’s works of 80th.
Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. Book: Timur Petrovich Novikov. Lectures. St. Petersburg: D137 Gallery, the New Academy of Fine Arts, 2003. Memory day for Timur Novikov, 23 May, and the celebration of the city’s tercentenary are symbolically close: for quarter of century, from 1978 to 2002, Timur was modeling the art history of Leningrad/St. Petersburg. Continue reading