Today Valery Lukka creates dramatically intense, dynamic paintings with an unusually active and sometimes even aggressive texture, seeking to break the plane and to go beyond the surface of the canvas. His heroes are always animated, balancing on the brink of figuration and abstraction. They are transforming and moving in front of the audience, whether it is people or the city streets. These extremely live works are the artist’s mature creations and in his recognizable style.

Valery Lukka was born in 1945. In 1977 he graduated from the Repin Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture. Since the late 1970s, together with Vyacheslav Mikhailov and Felix Volosenkov was a part of creative group ("Three heroes") which has the active texture as a basis of the visual language. Since 1983 he has been a member of the Union of artists of Russia, and since 1993 is a member of the National Association of artists of Italy "ITALART". Since 1996 he has been a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Arts "SAVE". V.Lucca is has participated in more than 250 exhibitions in Russia and abroad. In 2012 the artist’s retrospective solo exhibition was held in the State Russian Museum. Works by V.Lucca are in museums of Russia, Ukraine, Norway, Estonia, USA, as well as in numerous private collections.