Valeri Vinogradov
Sündinud / Born 1952
Chair. 2009
Oil, paper. Vm 60 x 42 cm (framed)
price 2 900
Reminiscent of a bygone document from the Soviet era, when the paper was finally authorised by a temple (see the top of the painting) and this gave the document power. Everything in this picture is retro or vintage from the start, fascinating in its imperfection and contradictorily mathematical (a straight line from A to B). Valery Vinogradov’s most extravagant achievement so far has probably been the exhibition of his painting in the Hollywood film Tenet, which was shot in Tallinn in 2019. The sense of humour in Vinogradov’s art is also often extravagant and exuberant, informed by Estonian-Russian cultural meanings, their differences and oddities.