Valera Pesin, artist

Valery Pesin's painting - slightly audible, free. "Value" - a creative pseudonym of the artist improvisator. Valery Pesin's works - easy and transparent at first sight - really have attraction force: once seen, they are capable to settle in subconsciousness depths strongly...

"My creative concept is very simple: I like to draw and do exhibitions. I like to meet new people. I love women and children. I love birds and flowers. I love Van Gogh's painting and Rembrant's drawings. I love Mozart's music and Borges's stories. I love Brodsky's verses and Borges's stories. I love dawn in the Crimea and declines on Baltic. I love strong coffee and good tobacco. I love the wood and the sea. I love wind and a rain. I love the sun and stars. I like to go along the road. I like to look out of the window. I love...

Absolutely Nabokov's childhood - elite German-language school, objects - the German literature, history, geography in German, good books, every summer with parents on the car on the cities of Baltic. I didn't notice at all that I live in the Soviet country, characters of books of Mayne Reid, Cooper, Tura Heyerdala for me Lenin, Brezhnev or school teachers were more real than, for example. If to believe in heredity, then it is interesting to remember my such ancestors as V. K. Byalynitsky-Birul is an artist or Byalynitsky-Birul Uchavstvovavshy in expedition of the baron de Toll in search of Sannikov's earth and a pink seagull is the sea biologist. Beautiful family legend: my grandfather Franek, the amateur artist, during war has redeemed from protection of the German concentration camp of my two grandmothers for a series of drawings of erotic contents.

After school I have entered the polytechnical institute, is deducted after two courses, worked at the factory conveyor, at building, in collective farms, the mechanic, the joiner... When has understood that drawing is forever, I have become janitors and watchmen. From the beginning of reorganization there was an opportunity to go abroad, do exhibitions, without asking anybody has permissions - and I began to earn only by drawing. And proceeds still.

I always sought to minimize any dependence on the state, society, systems. Life of the artist is a flight from such dependence and, at the same time, a way to unattainable.

Life - travel, wandering, the movement. Happiness - not in achievement of the purpose, and in an infinite way to her.

On this way it is constant, situations, objects, characters noteworthy, admiration, surprise, and, as we know, ability to be surprised - the first dignity of the artist every minute meet. And the main task - it is correct to show a situation, And carrying out this task absolutely once to think of such trifles as style, composition, color, drawing... The form always appears by itself, necessary for this plot or the character. And always it turns out well because it - is honest. If the artist something has also to someone - that it only honestly to do the part. Also the name to which - wandering" is still constant to be in that delightful state".

Valera Pesin