Opening the summer exhibition season with young authors, the curators of DiDi Gallery present a personal exhibition of the contemporary Petersburg artist Maxim Savva “Sigmund in a cafe”.

Many years of work with graphics and illustrations led the artist to a new form of expression — painting. Using pictorial language, Maxim Savva displays some special moments of his life and unexpected thoughts and ideas. The desire to share the most secret, and sometimes cause a feeling of nostalgia, leads the artist to develop his own recognizable style.

The exposition of the exhibition “Sigmund in a cafe” is similar to the visualized notes from the author’s personal diary. He transfers the childhood memories, everyday events and his own observations to the canvas. Some of them are erased in the memory by time, that the artist conveys through the color of white-gray shades, which resembles fog or heavy cloud cover.

He quite often deliberately deforms the horizon and perspective in his works. The author calls this technique a “positive diagonal”, it creates a feeling of unreality of the depicted events. Interest in changes in human perception, the theme of loneliness, love, childhood, is revealed by the artist with the help of his visual language, conveyed by color.

Maxim Savva: “The first car in my life was my dad's Muscovite. It was red-orange, with red leather seats and a light gray ceiling, with a huge back seat on which you could lie in full growth. In the summer, my grandfather rolled me on it for a picnic or feed pigeons, or tied a tie, and we went to the ice cream parlor. He also put me on his lap, and we drove through the village. Grandfather stomped on the pedals, and I turned the steering wheel..."