"Flowers and birds on the background of the carpet"

Exhibition of works by Olga Rudakova (1951-2017) and Valery Sakhatov.
With the support of the Marjani Foundation and the EXPO-88 Gallery.

The name of the exhibition defines the nature of the dominant genres selected for the exhibition.

In Olga Rudakova’s canvases, complex color and spatial relationships coexist with her favorite “heroes”: birds and flowers.

“The language and style of her still lifes is based on a finely designed plastic base, on the roll-call and intersection of pictorial symbols and universal meanings…. Still life is a comprehensive genre for her…. This is a picture genre, a universe genre, a symphony genre, where include landscape elements, and hints of a self-portrait (with traits of internal character), and allegorical conflicts of everyday life, and veiled meanings of a philosophical parable.”Nikita Ivanov

The development of Valery Sakhatov’s painting followed the path of an ever greater rejection of objectivity.. He creates in his works an environment consisting of the interpenetration of light and color. “I had to hear more than once about the magical similarity of Sakhatov’s portrait images to the image of flowers, about the origin of the human face from the picturesque element of a floral still life. And this is understandable for at least one reason: color and flowers are words of the same root. And portrait images, and floral arrangements, and carpets, and “palettes” are recreated by the artist exclusively with the help of color, its various combinations and variations, surprisingly accurate formulas and correctly positioned signs. This is the key to the movement and development of the picturesque method of Valery Sakhatov… "Nikita Ivanov

The exposition will include “still lifes” by Olga Rudakova, “carpet series” and “portraits without similarities” by Valery Sakhatov.

The exhibition hall is open from 12 to 19 hours

The day off is Monday.

Directions to the metro stations "Kuznetsk bridge", "Lubyanka"