We invite you to embark on a fascinating journey through the exhibitions of two outstanding Petersburg artists, as well as two remarkable painters from Volgograd.

Nikolai Sazhin’s Antiworlds exposition will present one of the most extraordinary and mysterious, ever experimenting Petersburg artists of the 1980s – early 2000s. Grotesque and fantastic images in Sazhin's paintings and graphic works touch upon eternal themes of human existence: Eros and Thanatos – love and death. The artist plays with meanings and form - real figures in his works are transformed into bizarre plantal and anthropomorphic formations.

The Light Breathing exhibition is timed to coincide with the 85th anniversary of Korinna Pretro, a well-known Petersburg graphic artist, and will present her pastels and watercolours of the last thirty years. Her romantic, contemplative works, mostly on rural themes, with their laconic, graceful images are akin to biblical parables – they are not genre stories, but metaphors for the eternal life of the toilers of the land that has existed for centuries. The audience will also see works on the Gospel theme and illustrations for the Old Testament Ruth.

The works by famous Volgograd artists Petr Zverkhovsky and Gleb Viatkin are being shown for the first time in Petersburg. Poetic with elements of naive style, the works by both artists inherit the traditions of French modernism of the early twentieth century. Zverkhovsky's nostalgic images of beautiful ladies and noble knights are interspersed with travelling landscapes from Italy, France and Greece, with magical visions of cities and monasteries. In Viatkin's paintings musical motifs are juxtaposed with soulfully delicate female images and nudes.

Duration: 1 hour