"Subjective reality" 0+ Automatic translate

Gallery "C", 1st floor.

The first exhibition of the art dynasty of Kalyuta will open in Artmuz. For the first time exhibited in pairs, Yuri and Mikhail will present their “subjective reality”: an example of artistic symbiosis, when paintings created in one workshop begin to influence each other even in the process of writing.

The exhibition Subjective Reality, curated by Marina Gurevich, features works by two artists. Yuri Kalyuta is a famous St. Petersburg painter, professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, and his son Mikhail is a sixteen-year-old teenager, behind whom there are already several personal and joint exhibitions, both in St. Petersburg and abroad (Sorrento, Villa Fiorentina, 2018).

The idea of ​​creating a joint exhibition has matured as a result of long-term collaboration during the pandemic in 2020. Working in the same workshop, and solving seemingly simple tasks - be it a portrait, still life, landscape - the authors noticed how their subjective view began to influence each other’s work, expanding the range of solutions and offering all new, sometimes paradoxical discoveries. Works began to appear on the basis of previously written canvases, pastels, and this process seems endless.

Mikhail, despite his young age, positions himself as an independent adult artist, with his own handwriting and original, subjective vision. He is very sincere and honest, as he writes as he can today and now, without flirting or pretending to be a contemporary artist. The exhibition presents only a small part of his pastels and oil paintings.

Yuri Kalyuta, also possessing his own subjective vision, appears at this exhibition in a slightly different light. Many self-portraits, portraits of his wife and son are closely intertwined with the works written by Mikhail. The process of interpenetration of some works into newly created works is very interesting. Moreover, the background can be both the work of the father and the work of the son. This technique was used by Yuri a few years ago, when he created a whole series of portraits under the general title "Infinity" - when one portrait, just painted, served as a background for another.

But the main thing in this is not only the formal penetration of one work into another, but the inner, spiritual combination of two subjective views of very different artists who can see and feel.

The vernissage of the project will take place on Friday, October 29, in the presence of the authors.