Vyacheslav Berechinsky. PETROGRAD 2017.100 YEARS

The exhibition presents the work of the St. Petersburg artist Vyacheslav Berechinsky, created for the anniversary of the revolutionary events of 1917. The basis of the exposition is a series of pastel portraits of revolutionaries, including V.I. Lenin, Inessa Armand, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Rosa Luxemburg and others. The artist, who inherits the traditions of modernism in his work, explores in his characteristic manner images that have largely lost relevance in recent decades. Brightly individualizing the features of each, the author emphasizes their independence from any historical or political context, providing the viewer with the opportunity to independently comprehend their contemporary significance. The exposition is supplemented by works representing the embodiment of revolutionary symbols that are not tied to any specific historical events. The revolution here appears as a symbol of development, reincarnation, appeal to the new, filled with romantic aspirations. The exhibition also features landscapes of St. Petersburg. Choosing non-trivial motifs inspired by the inside of the historical areas of the city, courtyards, small streets, intersections, the author raises a particular phenomenon to the general and typical, creating a portrait of Petrograd-Leningrad-Petersburg, as if a constant witness and participant in all historical events over the past hundred years.

Vyacheslav Berechinsky - artist, musician.

Born in 1970 in Leningrad.

Graduated from SPbGUKI, faculty of Museum Studies and Monument Preservation, specialty Attribution of Museum Objects. Works at the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts.

1980-90s - hobby for electronic music.

In 2000, the Chekhov solo music album was recorded and released in Japan, distributed to Europe and the United States.

Since the mid-1980s he has been engaged in painting.

He acts as a curator of exhibition projects.

2013 - One of the authors and curator of the exhibition "Assa: the last generation of the Leningrad avant-garde", Museum of the Academy of Arts.

2015 - One of the authors and curator of the exhibition Timur Novikova, Museum of the Academy of Arts.

2015-2016 - one of the authors of the project and curator of Pavel Pepperstein’s exhibition “Marble Head Hunters (Archeology of the Future)”, Museum of the Academy of Arts.

2015 - Prize in the field of contemporary art. S. Kurekhina in the nomination "The best curatorial project".

Exhibitions:

“Faces. 1990s ”, gallery of the project YOU’R ART, 2013

"City. Faces ”together with the English photographer Craig Speaks, ArtMusa creative cluster, gallery Artist’s workshop, 2014“ Meetings ”, I. I. Brodsky Museum-Apartment, 2015

“Flowers without revolution”, Mai-Art Gallery, Lappeenranta (Finland), 2017

Works are in private collections in Russia, Europe and the USA.