ROMAN DREAMS by Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov
St. Petersburg Arts Project (NY)
cordially invites you
to attend the opening reception
for the exhibition of works by
Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov
ROMAN DREAMS
January 27th, 2012
6:00 -10:00 PM
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE (NY)
81 Wooster Street, 4th Floor
[По-русски см. ниже] This exhibition of the St. Petersburg artists is a result of their three-month stay as fellows of Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fund at the American Academy in Rome in 2010.
The luxurious abundance of marble and flying figures in Roman churches and cathedrals occasioned Ivan Govorkov to create a series of drawings Marble. “I am imbued with the museum figurative classics at the subconscious level. And this subconscious, devoid of goals or ideas, is revealed in my drawings”. The artist draws spontaneously and aimlessly, allowing his hand to glide over the paper on its own as if revealing the invisible. Read the rest of this entry »