3. 03 - 11. 04 .2010
Valery Lukka
"...even metal knows not its fate..."
/painting/
"The Neva River", the mixed technics,120х141, 2008.
This exhibition is not an illustration to I.Brodsky's poem, and shows mystical space St.-Petersburg.
Joseph Brodsky
* * *
We lived in a city tinted the color of frozen vodka.
Electricity arrived from afar, from swamps,
and the apartment, at evening, seemed
smudged with peat and mosquito-bitten.
Clothes were cumbersome, betraying
the proximity of the Arctic. At the corridor's farthest and
the telephone rattled, reluctantly coming back
to its senses after the recently finished war.
The three-ruble note sported coal miners and aviators.
I didn't know that someday all this would be no more.
In the kitchen, enameled pots
were instilling confidence in tomorrow
by turning stubbornly, in a dream, into headgear or
a Martian army. Motorcars also were
rolling toward the future and were mostly black,
gray, and sometimes- the taxis-
even light brown. It's strange and not very pleasant
to think that even metal knows not its fate
and that life has been spent for the sake of an apotheosis
of the Kodak company, with its faith in prints
and jettisoning of the negatives.
Birds of Paradise sing, despite no bouncing branches.
1994
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About the artist:
1945 Born on January 22, in the village of Porokhovo, the
Yaroslavl region.
1977 Graduated the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.J.Repin.
1983 A member of the Artists Union of Russia.
1993 A member of the National Association of artists of Italy «ITALART».
1996 A member of St.-Petersburg Academy of Modern Art «SAVE».
Since 1978 Participant of more than two hundred exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
WORKS ARE IN THE FOLLOWING MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
RUSSIA
The State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg
The State Museum of the History Of St.-Petersburg, St.-Petersburg
The All-Russian Museum ot A.S.Pushkin, St.-Petersburg
The Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the Fountain House, St.-Petersburg
The Museum of Non-Conformist Art, St.-Petersburg
The Museum of the City Sculpture, St.-Petersburg
The State Museum of Theatrical And Musical Art, St.-Petersburg
The Central Show-Room «Manezh», St.-Petersburg
The Centre of Arts Named after Sergey Diagilev, St.-Petersburg
The Astrakhan Art Museum, Astrakhan
The State Museum of Kareliya, Petrozavodsk
The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic Tatarstan, Kazan
The Far East Museum of Art, Khabarovsk
The Novgorod Regional Art Museum, Novgorod
The Novosibirsk Regional Art Gallery, Novosibirsk
The State Art Gallery of Perm, Perm
The Russian Fund of Culture, Moscow
The State Art Gallery, Tver
The Yaroslavl Museum of Art, Yaroslavl
UKRAINE
The Museum of Russian Art? Kiev
USA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers, New Brunswick
NORWEGIA
The State Art Gallery, Mandal
ESTONIA
The Art Museum, Narva