AS&LS 2024
PLANZ Gallery. Fine art, graphics, sculpture, art consulting
ALEXANDER ZHERNOKLUEV
«Composition. Old Photos. Parts 1–4» (2024)
Canvas, oil; total size 150 × 600 cm (four panels, each 150 × 150 cm).
A monumental multi-figure polyptych inspired by 19th-century erotic photographs, created especially for AS & LS 2024.
VILGENIY MELNIKOV
«Venus Sleeping» (2022)
Cold-rolled steel with chemical treatment; hydroforming.
Life-size sculpture in sheet metal with torn form achieved through the artist’s experimental method. Based on Lucian Freud’s “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” and the British London School. The first full-scale work in Melnikov’s series of over 20 “inflated Venuses.” Nominated for the Moscow Art Prize 2023 (exhibited at Zaryadye Media Center).
NIKOLAI AFANASYEVICH PONOMAREV (1918 – 1997)
Graphics, 1960s
Soviet/Russian graphic artist, painter, educator, public figure.
— People’s Artist of the USSR (1977)
— Stalin Prize laureate (1951)
— Taught at the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute from 1949, head of the easel graphics and poster studios
— President of the Russian Academy of Arts (1991–1997)
Works in the Tretyakov Gallery (permanent collection), Russian Museum, and other major Russian collections.
NATALYA NIKOLAEVNA PONOMAREVA (1948 – 2024)
Russian artist and graphic designer.
Worked in an original authorial technique combining various print and hand-graphic methods: etching, monotype on etching plate, and ink.
ALEXANDER POPYKIN
Painter and graphic artist.
ART CONSULTING
Selection, acquisition, sale, and management of artworks.
PLANZ Gallery. Fine art, graphics, sculpture, art consulting
ALEXANDER ZHERNOKLUEV
«Composition. Old Photos. Parts 1–4» (2024)
Canvas, oil; total size 150 × 600 cm (four panels, each 150 × 150 cm).
A monumental multi-figure polyptych inspired by 19th-century erotic photographs, created especially for AS & LS 2024.
VILGENIY MELNIKOV
«Venus Sleeping» (2022)
Cold-rolled steel with chemical treatment; hydroforming.
Life-size sculpture in sheet metal with torn form achieved through the artist’s experimental method. Based on Lucian Freud’s “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” and the British London School. The first full-scale work in Melnikov’s series of over 20 “inflated Venuses.” Nominated for the Moscow Art Prize 2023 (exhibited at Zaryadye Media Center).
NIKOLAI AFANASYEVICH PONOMAREV (1918 – 1997)
Graphics, 1960s
Soviet/Russian graphic artist, painter, educator, public figure.
— People’s Artist of the USSR (1977)
— Stalin Prize laureate (1951)
— Taught at the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute from 1949, head of the easel graphics and poster studios
— President of the Russian Academy of Arts (1991–1997)
Works in the Tretyakov Gallery (permanent collection), Russian Museum, and other major Russian collections.
NATALYA NIKOLAEVNA PONOMAREVA (1948 – 2024)
Russian artist and graphic designer.
Worked in an original authorial technique combining various print and hand-graphic methods: etching, monotype on etching plate, and ink.
ALEXANDER POPYKIN
Painter and graphic artist.
ART CONSULTING
Selection, acquisition, sale, and management of artworks.
