    | | | Created for the support of Petersburg artists (both participation in the exhibitions and entrance are free), in the course of time the Gallery became a rather prestigious spot for organization of exhibitions both of domestic and foreign artists. We believe that in the situation when there are few exhibition spaces in the city and a great scale of creative ideas, aesthetic concepts and artistic practices, the main actual task is to present as many artists as possible independent on genre and technology. Exhibitions in the Borey Gallery are in the non-stop regime. It is a basic principle of the Gallery to support beginning artists and creators (the first exhibition, the first book, the first article). Absence of aesthetic snobbery and restraints in the interests of a special group of artists. Accessibility and openness.
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October 26-November 6, 2010. Arthur Molev. Painting. |
"ALSO Pi"
Painting
In the gallery halls |  | | 
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"Also PAINTING. Painting is everything around.
To be a magician! Everything what the paint touches gets miraculously alive and starts to shine, one should remember about this and believe in fairy paints. Any pragmatic object gets into another dimension and starts a new life.
To paint more delicately, deeper, brighter, without fear, for tem to ask afterwards: and where is it? We don’t see anything. We also can do it like that.
And they shouldn’t see, it’s like the king’s new dress in “A King With No Clothes”. And the boy is always right.
A retrospective exposition is based not on a chronological row, but is hung in a free, na?ve, sublime and childish manner. The things which live together, appear together.
The show includes various objects, both functional and fragmentary. Iron, wood, canvas, cardboard – and oil painting on them.
Auktsyon’s decorations 1995-1997, 2010.
Paintings from 1993 to 2010.
Objects from 1992 to 2010.
This show is not a fashionable installation about “painting”, but it is painting, living and timeless".
Also A.Molev
Arthur Molev was born is St Petersburg in 1969.
For 10 years was a student of the Academy named after Mukhina in St Petersburg.
He has been exhibited since 1990 – “Genii of Madness” show, St Petersburg-Moscow.
From 1991 is a participant of all seasonal shows in Manezh, St Petersburg.
From 1994 is Auktsyon’s art director.
From 1993 to 1995 is an art director of the “Tchernovik” magazine, NY-Moscow
From 1995 is one of “Tchernovik” authors
From 1995 is a member of IFA (International Federation of Artists)
He is a participant of dozens of collective and solo shows in Russia, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Holland, Israel. An author of eight books of poems, designed several books.
From 1998 to 2001 created four cartoons: "A Bird",
"A Beast", "Muzatik", "Zhidogolonoga" set to music of Auktsyon and V.Volkov.
Arthur Molev’s works are in private collections in USA, Israel, France, Austria, Germany, Hooland, UK and Russia. In the museum of modern art “Erarta”. In “S.P.A.S gallery”, “Gorokhovaya 55”, "NAVICULAARTIS".
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October 5 - 23, 2010. Vladimir Yashke. Graphics. |
"WORKS ON PAPER"
Graphics
In the small hall |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | Vladimir Yashke is a bright and flamboyant figure of St Petersburg art scene, known as “Mitki’s granddad”. Possessing a lambent and natural talent in painting and rare working efficiency, he created many hundreds of paintings, which are eye-catching, distinguished, absolutely individual and easily recognizable. Many know him like this. But there’s another Yashke staying in the shadow of Yashke-the artist, less familiar to a wide audience, but not less bright and original. It’s Yashke-the graphic artist. The show presents this side of his talent.
There are thousands of drawings in Yashke’s artistic heritage. He draws non-stop, like he does almost everything else. You can hardly imagine such a variety of themes, techniques used by a modern artist. He always draws a lot. With anything and on anything. From a full-size plotting page to a scrap of cigarette box. If he didn’t manage to finish it on the list, he would piece out something else, even of a different sort, texture and tone. There is nothing which is unpleasant or difficult for him to draw with. Only pencil is rare enough. He prefers something tougher, more distinct: a pen-point, cane, a ball-point. There are crayons, felt-tip pens, and moreover, in various combinations.
In landscape sketches he prefers to restrict himself to a slightly tight formula. Rigid fixation of composition, main themes, spatial relations. And there are plenty of such drawings. Using them you can trace the story of his trips to the Crimea, to the Caucasus, to Old Ladoga. The Crimea from Sevastopol to Yalta, both near-shore and mountainous, is sketched hundred times. There is also quite a number of St Petersburg views.
A separate Yashke’s passion in drawing is ink. He draws both with a pen-point and a brush. The drawings are living, playing with contrasting white and black spots. Probably these works are the most impulsive and spontaneous. They’re hasty and expressive.
There are a lot of color objects in Yashke’s graphics, but water color and gouache in his works often move somewhere outside graphics. The formats are large, the paint is loaded thickly, pastously. Water colors are painted in a wide manner, quickly, but often is processed afterwards with a pen-point and with white.
Oil pastel also interferes with painting. Yashke’s works are often overloaded in Van Gogh’s manner with technicolor, dense, “tasty” paint, keeping its rich relief texture. The same can be said about his pastels.
And there’s also mass-market graphics: copperplate print on linoleum and dry point etching, as well as monotyping and stencil screen printing. This sphere of graphic art organizers decided to leave for next time show.
At the exhibition opening, which is planned for October 5, at 17:00, there will be a presentation of Vladimir Yashke’s book “Berlin Diary 1994”, reproducing the diary kept by Yashke in May-June of 1994, while he was in Berlin. In this publication touching, sincere childhood and adolescence reminiscences, amusing and interesting thoughts about art, na?ve narration of everything happening to the author and his feelings are accompanied by magnificent drawings: Berlin views, scenes from the memories, sketches from nature, drafts of future works and so on. These little masterpieces are generously scattered on the diary’s pages. The diary’s text is supplied with comments, which explain to the reader Berlin life realities of those years, and possibly decipher these and those well-known or little-known persons hiding behind initials and names. The book was published in 200 pieces, each of which is signed by the author.
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September 7 – October 2, 2010. Kotka Artists’ Association. |
"GREETINGS FROM KOTKA, FINLAND"
Markku Hirvelä, Mauri Olavi Keinänen, Irma Laukkanen,
Anne Randén, Outi Sunila
Installation/sculpture/painting/objects
All gallery halls |  | |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | | | Finland is our closest neighbor, which St Petersburg has recently been discovering anew, like turning over a new leaf. You can find very few people in our city who do not have a favorite corner in that country. Few people do not have their own attitude, their personal story of relations with Finland. These relations are varied and numerous. Borey opens an exhibition of five Finnish artists from the “Kotka Artists’ Association”. It is an exclusive opportunity to see at once several artists’ feeling for their motherland. The works presented at the exhibition are made in various techniques and styles and by totally different personalities.
Anne Randén (born in Laitila in 1953).
After finishing Painting School of Turku Artistic Union (1973-1977), Anne Randén studied at Arts and Crafts Institute, graphical design department (1977-1982), then finished the course of design in Kouvola Institute (1999-2000) and the course of making adornments at the Institute of Design (Lahti, 2004-2006).
Anne Randén’s personal shows took place in the Modern Art Gallery (Kotka, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2006), Art Gallery of Finnish Graphics (Kuusankoski, 2002-2003), DIX Gallery (Helsinki, 2004), Art-Place (Anjalankoski, 2007) and Laterna Magica (Helsinki, 2009).
"Art is an activity, from which I draw permanent intellectual delight. Every time to bring to life a creative idea you need to think over again and again which material and technique to use. In my view, artwork cannot be separated from delight. And this pleasure from creation does not disappear even if the final result never meets expectations. Such ravishing joy is much of a children’s play".
Irma Laukkanen (born in Kotka in 1958). A sculptor.
She got artistic education at Finnish Academy of Arts, painting department (1977-1981) and sculpture department (1981-1982).
Since 1981 Irma Laukkanen has participated in collective exhibitions in Finland and abroad, in Bonn, Lubeck, Rostock, Malmö, Paris, Moscow, Stockholm.
The sculptor’s solo shows are often held in Helsinki Gallery of Sculpture. Laukkanen actively participates in contests and has awards. In the fine arts contest for making an interior design for the major library of Vantaa she won the First Prize and the third place (1984); she took the first place in the contest for making a curtain design for Ateneum auditorium (1989) and won the First Prize in a sculpture contest in Hyvinkää together with Markku Hirvelä (2007).
"In my sculptural compositions I seek to embody my inner experience, get free from gathered experience and images. I am attracted by deep values which cannot be caught at first glance, almost imperceptible phenomena.
Glass is a wonderful substance, which nature is hidden in the triviality of everyday construction material. In the meantime, its transparent crystallinity gives an artist an opportunity to make the substance of an ideal world perceptible, for instance, render a contact of human spirituality with otherness. “I often woke up at night” composition, presented at the show includes glass plaques, polished by sand, and metal; engraving and oil painting were used to make it. The idea was born under the influence of a novel 'A disturbance in the landscape' by a Finnish writer Raija Siekkinen, from which the texts were borrowed".
Markku Hirvelä (born in Rovaniemi in 1956). A sculptor.
Studied at Helsinki University, History of Arts faculty (1978-1979) and Finnish Academy of Arts (1980-1984). The sculptor works with different materials, his works are made of bronze, stone, concrete, wood. Since 1982 Markku Hirvelä has been a participant of collective shows in Finland and abroad, in Moscow, St Petersburg, Paris, Berlin, Lubeck, Bonn.
"In my sculptures I try to create an impression of instant insight, new perspectives discovery. In my view, the starting point of creative work is a dialogue between a man and nature, as well as eternal repetition of birth and death. For me presence of a shadow is a necessary continuation of my sculptures’ figural images. You can hardly find another means of expression, in which one can feel fragility, finiteness of being to the full extent". Mauri Olavi Keinänen (born in Varkaus in 1949). An artist, Master of Theology.
Mauri Olavi Keinänen studied history of arts and pedagogics at Tampere University (1973-1974), studied at School of Art in Lahti (1974-1975), took painting classes in Helsinki University (1975-1981). Keinänen was granted a Master of Theology degree in Helsinki University (1981). He took a course of studies in Arts and Crafts Institute (1976-1984) and Lahti Art Institute, specializing in graphics (1998-2000). For more than 20 years Keinänen served in Finnish Lutheran church, for 10 years as a priest and as a person responsible for work with the youth. He left his service due to activities of an artists’ group “Cuckoo” in Espoo. With his participation this group arranged more than ten art exhibitions in Finland and abroad. For the first time Keinänen’s works were presented at the show of Tampere Art Society (1969). His works were exhibited at 12 solo shows in Finland and abroad, including the ones in Borey Gallery in St Petersburg (2001) and in Deco Gallery in Tallinn (2007). "I think that there is enough horror and rudeness in our world, that is why in my hand-made paper works I try to show up beauty. I strike for something in my compositions which will turn them into visual jewels". Outi Sunila (born in Kotka in 1970)
After finishing lyceum (1989), Outi Sunila studied at Joensuu University (1989- 1992), then in Arts and Crafts Institute, arts pedagogics faculty (1992-2005), in Utrecht School of Art (Germany, 1997) and Finnish Academy of Arts (1996-2002). Sunila’s most important solo shows in Helsinki are: Love'n'death (2001); Scarlett (2003); It’s Art! Recipes of Modern Art (2007); Dash the world! (2010). Outi Sunila is a permanent participant of collective shows in Finland and abroad, among which we should mention expositions in Oulu (2001), Turku (2002), Kotka (2008 and 2009), Lappeenranta (2010), Helsinki (2010), as well as Hamburg (2002) and Copenhagen (2003).
In recent years the artist has been a permanent participant of screenings, among which we should mention the International media-art festival in Lima (Peru, 2005); a festival in Gdansk and Warsaw (Poland, 2005); Vera cinema festival (Aland Islands, 2007); a festival in Riga (Latvia, 2010). |
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