Exhibition of Vladimir Dubossarsky "Grandfather’s Tales"

Paintings and drawings from the 1001 Views of the Sea series, as well as large-scale works from the In the Animal World project, will be exhibited on two floors of the gallery.

The fairy tale included in the title of the exhibition, as one of the types of folklore fantastic instructive stories, turns into a complex system of tensions of various incompatible plots and characters.

In the paintings from the project “In the World of Animals”, the author constructs conceptual connections of phenomena equidistant from each other.

Representatives of the prehistoric fauna, typical interiors of the Khrushchev period, the images and language of pop art, combined within the framework of the work, highlight points of tension between the contents and complexes of ideas underlying them.

This paradoxical convergence of seemingly opposite meanings can also be seen in the title of the second series, in which "A Thousand and One Nights" and "One Hundred Views of Fuji" seem to be confused.

In the works from the 1001 Views of the Sea series, the author addresses the paradoxical connection between the method of modernist endless rehearsal of formal search and pop art replication.

Divided into two parts - water and sky - the original composition, referring to the works of Mark Rothko or Hiroshi Sugimoto’s austere photographs of the sea, is endlessly reproduced in a recognizable pop artist’s manner.

Not being in reality circulation works, due to the similarity of language, these works deceive our expectations and ideas about the boundaries of art movements.