Victor Golyavkin Gallery "Owl-Art" (St. Petersburg)

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April 22, 2011 at the gallery "Owl-Art" (St. Petersburg, the third line VO, 14, Phone.: (812) 967-34-52, visits by appointment) has opened a solo exhibition of Victor Golyavkina - teen idol 60's - a talented artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Artist in the broadest sense: he worked as a writer, painter and graphic artist (graduate of the Leningrad Academy of Arts, 1960)

His spiritual friends were at that time Minas Avetisyan, "a mature painter bright personality," as written about him afterwards, Tselkov, who became world-famous artist, a Muscovite Mikhail Kazan. Spiritual connection, friendship maintained between the artists throughout their lives.

In the face of the artist's paintings gained Golyavkina courageous, selfless, disinterested love of the painter with individual style, capable of working in a style corresponding to the present. New it opens in any picture, embodying his idea of ​​painting - a combination, the influence of colors on each other.

Golyavkinu impressed subjective individualistic approach to painting, which in the second half of the twentieth century took a leading position. Its composition was conceived "to smear" - the color. He thought the world of paints. His palette includes the full range of existing in the nature of oil paint. Often in the compositions dominated by red, and he knew how to write beautifully.

(From the press release gallery)

I'd add that the exhibition was visited was in that moment in St. Petersburg Tselkov - on the 1 st picture (this is found on the website gallery http://www.sova-art.com/artists/Golyavkin/)