Marianna Kornilova:
The art of being sincere. Valery Kaverin.

We often hear the phrase: "A talented person is talented in everything." This seems to me to be a kind of hyperbolic generalization, since I often meet people whose talent, ability, genius fully possess them, and even if there are still other facets of giftedness in a person, they may go unnoticed beyond the brightness of the main business.

Nevertheless, when I met Valery Kaverin, and by that time I knew only a few of his paintings, and even delving a little into his creative biography, I was surprised and delighted to find just the case when the work of one person is as versatile as harmoniously.

Artist, graphic artist, poet, photographer - the audio-visual series of perceptions of Kaverin’s work is an original, harmonious collage of different genres of art.

We all know that the laws of artistic thinking, the laws of artistic development of the world around us and its images are the same for the artist, writer, poet, sculptor, composer. The materials and tools with which they realize their creative ideas differ. Words, paints and canvases, marble and bronze, sounds. Nevertheless, the main artistic means by which the creator embodies his plan are not affected by epochs, stylistic directions and genres, for example, such elements of a composition as a detail, symbol, allegory, hyperbole, antithesis, rhythm, as well as the essence of the composition of a work in whole: its purpose is to express the artist’s thoughts.

Valery Kaverin, managed to organically not only combine different types of art into a single artistic canvas, using different tools and artistic means, but also overcome the dominance of form over content, make them equal, congenial, existing in complete harmony with each other.

Nothing superficial, far-fetched - Valery Kaverin as if holding in his hand not a brush, pen or pencil, but his own soul.

It is difficult for an artist, writer, any creative person to always remain relevant. Valery Kaverin is an artist who, not striving for relevance, but always remaining sincere in everything he does, will find the key, probably, to any concerned spectator and listener.

It is very difficult to talk, say, about the painting of this artist outside the context of the rest of his creative content. The picture draws a poem, which turns us to a graphic drawing, and that, in turn, will draw our attention to the story or statement of Kaverin.

His picturesque dialogues with artists of different eras, a poetic reaction to events in the history of art and endless human and artistic indifference to all manifestations of being, make Valery Kaverin an exceptional, very worthy person for me. I am very pleased that in Russia we have such, such a professor of painting.

As a positive character in the works of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov and Boris Pasternak, artists such as Valery Kaverin make their life better with their mere presence.