New items of the week – Young St. Petersburg Graphic Artists

The DiDi Gallery team returns with Weekly Art Selections to guide you through the complex world of art and help you to choose the right one for you!

This time we present young and daring St. Petersburg graphic artists who have already conquered the exhibition grounds of the city from the art basement Kunsthalle nummer sieben to the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, and now many of them have been presented at the Generation in Their Thirties exhibition at the State Russian Museum.

What is special about St. Petersburg graphics? Perhaps, attention to everyday landscapes, scenes, things and objects, living a calm and separate life. This trend of "quiet art" developed back in the thaw years as a kind of non-conformist movement, and now it continues to exist in the form of a graphic tradition.

Let's get acquainted:

Nadezhda Kosinskaya - emotional and sensual draftsman of everyday life. In her works, a Facebook page or an accidentally seen scene from life becomes a tremulous and fragile memory, blurring in smudges of watercolors or ink.

Oleg Khmelev in his expressive pencil sketches also turns to everyday objects, however, once transferring their outlines to paper, he creates a whole exuberant fantasy from small patches of color, pattern or ornament.

Natalia Spechinskaya with bright acrylic and watercolor flashes as if calling out to us "Speak louder, you can't hear anything!" - as it is written in one of her works, therefore even the most calm and coloristically restrained of her sketches becomes a manifesto to form, feeling and, of course, art.

Maxim Savva is a subtle memoirist of everyday life: quiet evenings in a cafe, sunny walks or morning coffee. Floating lines and silhouettes against pastel-colored skies are a subtle memory captured on a sheet.

Drawings by Victoria Bodrova are similar to black and white illustrations from children's books, but mixed in surreal chaos. Rabbits galloping around the Christmas tree, travelers in the background of the New Year's round dance - what is happening? Eternal strangeness, eternal mystery.

Maxim Ima is a street art artist who transfers the feeling of the texture of the street surface to the genre of graphics. On a roughly crumpled sheet of paper, he has calm images of modern grandmothers, deities of Fertility.