This year, the concept of the DiDi Gallery stand is built on reflections about urban space, its textures and mythologies.
Traditionally connecting the art of Leningrad nonconformism and the contemporary St. Petersburg art scene, we present: Evgenia Mikhnova-Voytenko, Aleksandra Kipsone and Artem Maksimov!
The work of Yevgeny Mikhnov becomes the starting point for reflecting on the plane not only within the framework of the stand, but also within Soviet art of the mid-20th century.
Aleksandra Kipsone, with a background in street art, reproduces the layers and textures of urban walls, complementing them with text and symbols. His painting becomes an intuitive collective image of our time.
Artem Maksimov, a ceramist, works with the mythology of urban spaces, capturing couriers, gopniks, Khrushchyovkas, and OMON officers in aesthetic ceramic figurines with white-gold glaze.
Abstract painting becomes the context and “environment” for the ironically aestheticized heroes of urban folklore.
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