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Valery Rabchinsky. An artist’s
workshop, or Painting once again! On 12 April 2007 works by the Petersburg painter Valery Rabchinsky were put on display in the exhibition hall of the Youth Education Center. The show is part of the program entitled CLASS. Topical Art Rabchinsky is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. He participates in many exhibitions and has had one-man shows in Germany, Great Britain and Ireland. Rabchinsky is an artist sui generis who does not belong to any of the Petersburg groups. His favorite subjects are those which he knows best and feels most intensely, his world - the studio where his thoughts, feelings and impressions are born and are turned into artistic images. The idea of world globalization has finally come into being in modern art. The international biennales, art fairs and exhibitions have turned into one great show in which there are no national distinctions, where the artist creates his act by bringing in videos and sound effects. Why then is the artistic language of figurative painting in such demand? One may say that Valery Rabchinsky is a traditional artist, if what you mean is work on canvas using brushes and oil paints. He makes no secret of his love for Van Gogh and Cezanne, Rouault and Soutine. The artist’s workshop is the world in which he exists: his home and family, the streets of Petersburg, friends, objects in usual interiors and landscapes. But out of these routine, everyday or unexpectedly bright impressions arising from travels come paintings that are philosophical reflections on human life in which there is a mixture of joy and sadness, jokes and irony. Valery Rabchinsky’s favorite artist Van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother Theo that "painting and everything connected with it is really hard work: besides intellectual strain and spiritual suffering, it demands a great deal of strength day after day..." Only as a result of such work do we get paintings that we want to look at and which provide an impulse to reflection. The exhibition is open until 22 April 2007. Hermitage Youth Education Center |
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