Lukka Valery
Lukka Valery
1945 was born in Yaroslavsky region, USSR 1977 Graduated from Leningrad Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Leningrad, USSR 1983 Member of the Artist’s Union of Russia Member of the National Association of painters of Italy “Italart” Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art; Member of AICA AUCTIONS 1989 Christie’s, London, UK 1990 “Nelleman Thomsen”, Arhus, Denmark 1990 Druo – Richelieu, Paris, France 1990 “М.Bernaerts”, Mekhelen, Belgium 1990 “Marriott Hotel”, Warszawa, Poland 1992 “Gioffredo” Gallery, Nice, France COLLECTIONS The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The State Museum of Theatrical and Musical Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia; Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; The State Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Dyagilevsky Cultural Center, St. Petersburg, Russia; Anna Akhmatova Museum, Fontanny Dom, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Fund of Culture of Russia, Moscow, Russia; The Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia; The Far East Art Museum, Khabarovsk, Russia; The State Picture Gallery, Tver, Russia; The Novosibirsk Arts Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia; The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine; The Museum of Arts, Narva, Estonia; The Museum of Modern Art “Zimmerly”, New-Jersey, USA; The State Arts Gallery, Mandal, Norway Valery Lukka has come into art with the paintings, which have embodied a phantasmal world. Not only subject of his paintings, but the form itself – dramatic, naked and defenseless, aiming at harmony and loosing it, - acts upon the spectator. A sort of sorcery of textural and hardly visible spots, “the breath of the texture” and the magic of paints spilling over give rise to the Lukka’s uneasy and mysterious world of images. It is true for his after-nature pieces, for portraits and compositions, replicas of the famous artists of the past and abstract paintings. But even the abstract forms are not abstracted from the imperishable questions of existence – of the past and of the present, of the real and of the associative, of the harmonious and of the disharmonious. Lukka’s tragic and lyrical romanticism is characterized by the profundity of the author’s emotional experience, which is the feature of the Russian culture as a whole. Each of the artist’s pieces has its pictorial direction and dramatic composition.
1945 was born in Yaroslavsky region, USSR 1977 Graduated from Leningrad Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Leningrad, USSR 1983 Member of the Artist’s Union of Russia Member of the National Association of painters of Italy “Italart” Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art; Member of AICA AUCTIONS 1989 Christie’s, London, UK 1990 “Nelleman Thomsen”, Arhus, Denmark 1990 Druo – Richelieu, Paris, France 1990 “М.Bernaerts”, Mekhelen, Belgium 1990 “Marriott Hotel”, Warszawa, Poland 1992 “Gioffredo” Gallery, Nice, France COLLECTIONS The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The State Museum of Theatrical and Musical Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia; Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; The State Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Dyagilevsky Cultural Center, St. Petersburg, Russia; Anna Akhmatova Museum, Fontanny Dom, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Fund of Culture of Russia, Moscow, Russia; The Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia; The Far East Art Museum, Khabarovsk, Russia; The State Picture Gallery, Tver, Russia; The Novosibirsk Arts Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia; The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine; The Museum of Arts, Narva, Estonia; The Museum of Modern Art “Zimmerly”, New-Jersey, USA; The State Arts Gallery, Mandal, Norway Valery Lukka has come into art with the paintings, which have embodied a phantasmal world. Not only subject of his paintings, but the form itself – dramatic, naked and defenseless, aiming at harmony and loosing it, - acts upon the spectator. A sort of sorcery of textural and hardly visible spots, “the breath of the texture” and the magic of paints spilling over give rise to the Lukka’s uneasy and mysterious world of images. It is true for his after-nature pieces, for portraits and compositions, replicas of the famous artists of the past and abstract paintings. But even the abstract forms are not abstracted from the imperishable questions of existence – of the past and of the present, of the real and of the associative, of the harmonious and of the disharmonious. Lukka’s tragic and lyrical romanticism is characterized by the profundity of the author’s emotional experience, which is the feature of the Russian culture as a whole. Each of the artist’s pieces has its pictorial direction and dramatic composition.