Exhibition "Valery Parahod". Painting Automatic translate

On February 5, 2015 at 16:00 on the 2nd floor of the Information, Educational and Exhibition Center of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (103 Lenin St.), the grand opening of the exhibition “Valery PARAHOD. Painting".

Exhibition “Valery PARAHOD. Painting ”introduces viewers to the work of the contemporary Kaluga artist Valery Eremenko (Parahoda).

Valery Eremenko (born 1955) is an artist from Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. In 1976 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms School named after V.I. Lenin, since 1978 - retired officer. Since 1980, lives in Kaluga. Member of the TS XP. Participant of the International Festival of Naive Art and Creativity of Outsiders “Festnaiv” in 2007, 2010 and 2013. From 1996-2014. -personal exhibitions in Kaluga, Moscow, Vienna (Austria).

The artist’s works are in the collection of the Museum of Naive Art (Moscow) in private collections in Russia and abroad.

ParAhod is an artist’s pseudonym with which he went down in the history of fine art in order not only to embody the principle of his own creative path not only with his paintings, but with his own name: “We write as we hear, and we write as we see.”

But the artist sees the reality around us or our ancestors surrounding him, and even more so reflects it in his paintings always in a special way: steamers sail across the sea-ocean, young ladies with cavaliers walk along the promenade, airships hover, airplanes chatter, etc.

But the main thing in this case in the artist’s works is still the atmosphere - like a sunny dream-nostalgia, like a story about the ideal past of a carefree Russian town. Kaluga, where the artist himself lives and works, could also be such a town. It was in Kaluga that ParAhod first began painting classes. Starting with making copies of your favorite paintings, he gradually and almost intuitively comes to naive.

Naive art unites artists who, not having a professional education, but following the dictates of their hearts, try through their creativity to figuratively comprehend and fantastically refract the world around them, creating immediate and original works.

The “retro-naive” by Valery Parakhod quite succinctly characterizes the entire depth and direction of the creative impulse of the artist, who found his own picturesque world - with its own plots and themes, a peculiar plastic language and color.

Valery ParAhod is an attentive and consistent artist. For all the seeming “ease of being” of his paintings, the master very vigilantly peers into the whirl of real life, in the routine of which he always knows how to find and then embody in his work a funny adventure, a curious story, an ironic genre scene.

The pictures of ParAhod are easily recognizable, reminding us at the same time of a folk clay toy and Soviet animation.

It is felt that the artist sincerely and wholeheartedly loves the colorful, provincial world of his characters, sometimes laughing maliciously at them, and sometimes kindly envious of this almost universal, universal picture happiness.

ParAhod’s work is good in that it is completely alien to any pseudo-intellectual polysemy and universal pathos. They do not have deliberate conceptuality and loud slogans.

At the same time, they are distinguished by such a powerful charge of freshness and joy of being, they give the viewer such an amount of positive energy that we all probably want to get there, on the other side of the canvas. In this beautiful and carefree life.

For visitors, the exhibition will run from February 5 to March 6, 2016 at the address: Kaluga, st. Lenin 103, 2nd floor daily from 10. 00 to 18. 00 h., Saturday from 11. 00 to 19. 00, day off Monday. Tel for reference: 56-28-30, 56-38-20

Age limit: 0+