Exhibition "The Next Day"

The international Russian-Hungarian exhibition "The Next Day" was initiated by the St. Petersburg New Academy and Abel Konya, director and curator of the State Gallery in Miskolc, Hungary, with the support of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg - within the framework of the international cultural dialogue between the two countries. Seven famous Russian artists will take part in the exhibition curated by Abel Konya in St. Petersburg: Irina Drozd, Ivan Plusch, Olga Tobreluts, Irina Annina, Ilya Gaponov, Dmitry Shorin and Oleg Maslov, reflecting on the future development of mankind in the era of new space exploration.

The main concept of the exhibition: if humanity leaves the Earth and goes to another planet, what can it take with it in order to start anew. What memories, situations, sensations, transcendental questions of being live in us when we break away from the life-giving Earth, overcoming gravity. What cultural and existential clues can predetermine the formation of a new living space on another celestial body. The loss and then the restoration of living human existence is a future that seems distant, but 60 years after the first space flight of Yuri Gagarin and 50 years after the landing of a man on the moon, it cannot be regarded as a pure utopia.

All of the artists featured in the exhibition live in St. Petersburg, but in recent years have been working in Pace and Topson, small Hungarian towns near Lake Balaton. Their artistic style has a strong, individual character, united by a universal approach: they draw on European artistic, philosophical and psychological traditions. Works by seven artists include Sensual, Symbolic Realism - Dmitry Shorin; an expressive landscape image that conveys inner emotions and a philosophical approach - Irina Annina; monumental, detailed realism, the central themes of which are abandoned post-industrial spaces and landscapes permeated with traces of the disappearing human presence - Ilya Gaponov; magical surrealism combined with supernaturalism - Irina Drozd; expressionism,based on dreams and psychological situations, emphasizing materiality and corporeality - Ivan Plusch; a picturesque immersion in the surrounding living space flooded with sunlight with his daily discoveries - Oleg Maslov; works that transform and combine classical images with modern vision using digital technologies - Olga Tobreluts.

The works presented are characterized by a lively discourse with a European artistic heritage and a specific modern language, which logically follows from the free search for a creative path.

Abel Konya.