Nepetrovich Lesha

Contemporary artist. Born in Moscow in 1972. Studied at the free workshops of Perotti School of Art, Yuri Naumov's and Grigory Kuznetsov's workshops. Member of the TCAA.

Regularly participates in exhibitions of contemporary art.
Lives and works in Moscow.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 - "MAN" - Instructions for Use, ArtMaison, Moscow
2023 - "Faces of Big City", ARTe Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2023 - "Dreamcatcher", ArtMaison, Moscow
2023 - "Pop ART: Russian Style", ARTe Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Moscow
2023 - "Full Brut", ArtMaison, Moscow
2022 - "Avant-garde: from Russian Archaic to Contemporary Art", All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art, Moscow, Moscow
Decorative Arts Museum, Moscow
2021 - "Via Fantasia", Perotti School of Art, Moscow
2020 - "Poetry of the Present", Perotti School of Art, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023 - ProSvet, Moscow's Art-Turns with the assistance of the Association of Cultural Centres of the Western Administrative District of the City of Moscow
2022 - Moonlight, Perotti School of Art, Moscow

"When we become adults, living the changes in the world around us, we remember our childhood and our old children's toys take us back to those distant times, when the whole world belonged only to us, and there was a whole life ahead of us, full of joy and happiness. How do our children's toys live now, mute witnesses of our victories and disappointments, care and indifference, loyalty and betrayal, our love and cruelty?

Then the (non-)children's stories are born, which I tell in my paintings.

The use of pointillism in my works allows me to fully convey that magical state when memories of childhood evoke warm feelings in us and fill our lives with joy. This painting method is more than 130 years old, but it is still relevant today, as the technique of drawing an image on canvas can be compared to pixels on computer screens. Pointillism uses optical illusions to create images from many small dots placed close together. When viewed up close, the picture appears blurred, indistinct; from afar, the object is accurately viewed. Thanks to the effect, the image is alive and multidimensional. If you get closer, the picture breaks up into dots. My goal has been achieved - I have conveyed the magic and instability of the state, the unreality and illusory nature of what is happening."

Lesha Nepetrovich, an artist