World of images

The cryptography of the Gladkikh family images

At last Moscow has waited! It was not in vain that the medieval fable writer La Fontaine fixed in the world consciousness a stable thesis "all roads lead to Rome". The famous idiom says that you can reach your goal in different ways, and this message is clearly readable if you look closely at the multi-layered, frankly philosophical creations of artist Mikhail Gladkikh.

Already soon, on March 16, the ArtMaison gallery will open a unique creative tandem's original exhibition "World of Images". The exhibition has finally reached our "Third Rome" with a full house and pomp, marching with a broad Mayakovsky step through the vast expanses and hinterlands of our Motherland. And Moscow, being long ago tempted and saturated in all senses, soaked in the hyperborea of Tsereteli's monumentality, as well as the picturesque grandeur of the dusty storerooms of the Tretyakov Gallery, plus a dozen world biennales, having removed the monocle of prejudiced spectator nihilism and pushed away from the stereotypical glamorous agenda, gets a reason to ponder, looking at the hidden, aphoristic images given by the philosophy of the two Ufa authors.

Mikhail and Svetlana Gladkikh, working at different poles of creative elements, give their works a wide space for reflection - about the meaning of life; about human mores; about what and who a modern person really is, - draw parallels from the world of yesterday to our digital reality filled with scripts and stigmas of social networks. Mikhail Gladkikh, painting, applying layer after layer of acrylic and oil, sends signals to the neuron of the inquisitive viewer, which can be easily read by a single bark, as Arina Rodionovna did with little Sasha Pushkin. In his paintings Mikhail constantly works with the mind of the contemplator, it is important for him to reach the consciousness, he does not want to be simple in principle. His poetry of images of the past in a playful, allegorical form is overlaid with a calaca on everyday life - this is what makes him both understandable and interesting.

And ironic, fantastically detailed author Svetlana Gladkikh's dolls are not so much and not so much a doll-toy for getting a momentary "WOW-effect", against the background of which, after taking selfies and experiencing a serotonin injection, you will immediately erase it from your memory. Painstaking, subtle elaboration of the puppet characters literally covers a stream of turbulent experiences of both a child and an adult: a young violinist's gaze overflowing with over-the-top emotions; the cold beauty of the famous serial beauty Wansday; a searing Latin American woman dreaming about something over a volume of poetry with a worried Doberman at her feet - these images are easy and recognizable, they are like a small cast of the surrounding world. Emotions, masterfully copied from real people, give us a better understanding and a glimpse into ourselves, and isn't that a real miracle?

The exhibition will last a week from March 16 to 22. You have a chance not to miss an encounter with the beautiful, sublime and undoubtedly truly something proudly beautiful!
Aaron Gelrud PR Director ArtMaison

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Opening on March 16 at 18:00

ArtMaison Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nizhnyaya Krasnoselskaya 35 p 23
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