This is an opportunity to visit Russia, to take a trip to Russian cities, walk along their streets and look into their windows.

A representation of Russia and Siberia here in Dublin.

The artist "inhaled" the atmosphere of the cities, their streets and buildings. Local sounds, air, food, smells and rhythms created a feeling of belonging to the place. It has turned into a game: merging with the surroundings, exploring the peculiarities and moving on to the next destination. This has brought a realization that the City is a unique phenomenon, artificial, industrial and man-created; it reflects the biological, historical and cultural characteristics of mankind.

Different cities have chosen their unique ways to absorb the palette of different historical epochs. There are no two identical cities. They differ as people do, but they also have something in common. Each one of them is a result of conscious and subconscious acts of a community - of their cultural, historical, ethnic and religious features.

It has been observed that there are certain characteristics common for all Russian cities. The artist's mission was to find a general principle of the City as a phenomenon, to pass this principle through his own artistic perception and turn the feeling of the City into something abstract, devoid of anything concrete.

The City as an abstraction

The Abstract City

The abstract image of the City

A collective image of the City

The observations feature an on-going walk that started some time ago. This exhibition is an intermediate point, a creative to-date report on two Russian cities – St. Petersburg and Barnaul (Altai, Siberia), the hometown of the artist.

It is intriguing that the report should take place in Dublin and cover not only St. Petersburg, but Siberia as well, a certain black hole on the map of world art.

The exhibition is a look from a different country, part of the world and, indeed, civilization. This is a unique opportunity for Dubliners to meet an alternative creative vision from "another world", to broaden the perception, and to taste an unknown culture. This is also an opportunity for the artist to explore the culture of Ireland and Dublin, to print this city onto a new page of his artistic path. An exhibition on Ireland will take place on the artist's return to Barnaul to mark the beginning of continuity, to begin cultural exchange.