Slava and Grisha Novikov. "INSIDE" "PICTURES WANT TO BECOME VISIBLE"

Galleries "Ul. Malevich "(3rd floor) and" B. Craft "(4th floor), 0+.
June 9 - September 6 June 8 - September 5, 2021

Celebrity photographer Slava Novikov will hold the first exhibition of his works in St. Petersburg. In a nearby gallery, his eight-year-old son Grisha Novikov, who has mastered a unique artistic style, is exhibited.

The family exhibition will take place at the Artmuz Museum of Contemporary Art. Father, Slava Novikov, admits: "portraits warm my soul." For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that not only he is warmed: in the lens of Glory, completely different media characters appear on an ongoing basis - from Khabensky to Agutin and Katya IOWA - however, fame here is secondary and rather serves as a basis for press releases and status in professional circles. In the foreground is the author’s unique vision and clearly traceable handwriting, which stands out as a thinking photographer with a rich artistic background. Fame is primarily interested in people in a dramatic search for themselves, in their mental and intellectual work, overcoming. And the point is not in victory and defeat, they are conditional, but in the drama of life, filled with great beauty.

The son of Slava is Grisha Novikov, an eight-year-old artist with striking paintings and a frighteningly deep understanding of his painting. Below is a quote from his words: “People love different words, I don’t. When people ask me: “What is your picture about?” I don’t know. Pictures come from somewhere and want to be visible. There is something hiding behind each drawing, I feel that I can revive the inanimate. I hardly draw landscapes, I am only interested in a person, because there is something important in him. I like to look for it. "

Grisha Novikov studied at an art school, which quickly bored him. Growing up in an extremely creative environment (parents are photographers, the elder brother is an actor), he spends all his free time watching the albums of the masters - Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh - and copying their paintings. By the age of eight, he had already found an art style that did not imply age adjustments. Grisha has a precocious skill to notice picturesque subjects and subtly play them in pictures - from an interesting half-smile of an unfamiliar grandmother to an unusual pose of a tired brother.