Takeoff landing life is a mystery Automatic translate

Gavriil Lubnin is a St. Petersburg artist, poet and musician (1969-2023), a prominent representative of the St. Petersburg artistic underground of the 1990-2000s.

Lubnin’s legacy is extensive and varied: he participated in many personal and group painting exhibitions; during his lifetime, 9 graphic books and three full-length music albums were published.

SHEREMETEV GARDEN – FROM MAY 7, 2024
BOREY GALLERY – MAY 10 – JUNE 1, 2024
KGALLERY – MAY 16 – JUNE 16, 2024
TRIBUTE CONCERT IN THE SHEREMETEV GARDEN – MAY 26, 2024, STARTING AT 7:00 PM

Lubnin is a truly people’s artist. Those who have never heard the author’s name are also familiar with his characteristic manner and intonation. Thanks to the Internet, his works gained wide popularity and became fashionable urban folklore.

The synthetic genre of these works by Lubnin combines graphics, poetry and design. Naive ink drawings on thin craft sheets with a witty, often paradoxical rhyming signature are reminiscent of popular prints, comics or graffiti.

After the artist’s tragic death in October 2023, it became obvious that a huge part of his heritage is in private collections.

The idea of ​​holding an exhibition of works from private collections is a conscious need to rethink the creative legacy of a great artist, whose life was spent away from institutions, high-profile projects and other forms of recognition. The project “TAKE OFF LANDING LIFE MYSTERY” is not only an exhibition, but also his songs, which will become sound installations, a tribute concert, a catalog, as well as several music albums and books that are being prepared for publication. The organizers managed to collect about a thousand graphic and pictorial works by the artist, as well as more than 50 previously unreleased songs.

The exhibition will be held in May-June 2024 at three venues: in the Borey Gallery, in the KGallery and in the Sheremetevsky Garden. The choice of locations is not accidental: it was here, in the center of St. Petersburg, that the daily routes of the urban artistic bohemia of the turn of the century lay. Gavriil Lubnin studied at school No. 190 on Fontanka, next door to the KGallery, in these courtyards and front doors he once painted on the walls, Borey hosted most of his personal exhibitions, and the Sheremetev Garden often became a unit of nature in the center of a noisy city.

The project presents more than 500 works by the author: paintings, graphics, collages and objects.

For each location, a unique playlist of unreleased works has been compiled. Thus, to listen to all the songs, you need to go around all parts of the exhibition. In parallel with the exhibitions, new music albums will be released on streaming platforms.

Navigation between exhibition locations will be provided by wards from the Nochlezhka Foundation. Lubnin always had a special relationship with those who are now called representatives of vulnerable groups of the population: he was friends with them and helped in any way he could, they often became the heroes of his drawings and songs.

The culmination of the project will be a tribute concert to Gavrila Lubnin’s songs on May 26 in the Sheremetevsky Garden. The concert will be attended by the groups “Polyus”, “Proletarian Tango”, “Sister Petra”, “Acid Hasid”, as well as Evgeny Dyatlov, Victor Sankov, Sasha Lushin (ex-“Prepinaki”), Mon Chikunov (“Two Airplanes”), Arthur Vakha, Dmitry Khoronko and others.

For those who visit all three exhibition locations of the project, admission to the concert will be free using a special flyer with attendance notes.