Viktor Norkin. Somewhere paradise Automatic translate

Erarta Museum presents an exhibition by Viktor Norkin, in whose works the logic of everyday consciousness recedes and the fairy-tale world flourishes.

Nostalgia for an earthly paradise, as well as a tendency to live in a fictional world, are often found among the inhabitants of the Central Russian Upland. And if you add to this education, an extraordinary imagination, as well as talent, enthusiasm and longing for world culture, then an interesting artist can emerge from such a combination. However, there are a lot of interesting artists, but Viktor Norkin is a special author, unlike anyone else, who created his own fantastic and romantic world. His huge decorative paintings, which are not alien to surrealistic imagery, applied in a soft, contemplative register and without any Freudianism, on the bright side of the world, are more reminiscent of poetic metaphors. Norkin’s works sound like fairy tales or parables staged by a skilled director in the theater of the imagination. The personal here is combined with the epic, the everyday with the fantastic,

In the artist’s paintings, the logic of everyday consciousness recedes - and a fairy-tale world blooms, in which flowers grow higher than people, fantastic creatures with human heads fly, and the sounds of a magic flute give rise to images of boats, birds and fish. In a somnambulistic dream under a green sky dotted with bright balloons, spotted cows walk thoughtfully through the meadows of Pisa, and the horned moon is stuck in the arched openings of the once famous tower. The artist acts as the shepherd of his dreams, his enchanted prototype appears and disappears in the paintings - he is part of the general cycle. On one of the paintings you can read the following words: "I swam, I drowned, I fell out with rain." The author seems to be dissolved in this theater of poetic dreams. Behind the change and movement of visual images, the presence of literature is guessed. Some of Viktor Norkin’s works are directly related to the works of a friend of his youth, Ruslan Nadreev (Marsovich). The artist illustrated the books “Fly and Swim”, “Calmer” and “The Winged Lion” (the picture of the same name is presented at our exhibition). While working on his works, Norkin himself sometimes writes short texts, introducing them into the visual field.

The exhibition "Somewhere Paradise" is the first personal museum exhibition of Viktor Norkin in St. Petersburg. This is a real journey into the forests of imagination, stories about our inner self, presented in bright, bizarre, fantasy images.