pop/off/art gallery presents a solo exhibition of St. Petersburg's artist Vladimir Shinkarev. The project “One More Time” is a traditional journey to the northern capital. The nontrivial views of this voyage become central in Shinkarev's painting. The artist proposes us a route familiar to admirers of his art, consisting of favorite places: Moika river, Fontanka river, Chornaya Rechka, Tarkhovka platform, Beloostrov and etc. More than 40 Shinkarev’s new paintings, combined in pairs, are presented in the gallery's exposition.

Vladimir Shinkarev. Red bridge. 2018. Oil on canvas 48х64

Vladimir Shinkarev. Moika 2. 2019. Oil on canvas 48х64

The name of the exhibition formally expresses the essence of the Vladimir Shinkarev’s artistic methodology - recurrence of the same landscape motif. But the artist is not interested in the process of changing, but in unrelenting permanence and regularity, the prose of life, developing under a typical script, the scenery for which is the rational architecture of St. Petersburg. The cinematic effect occurs when moving from one image to another and back. Expanding the possibilities of pictorial plastics, Vladimir Shinkarev develops his own procedure.Referring repeatedly to the same landscape motif, the artist claims the inexhaustible potential of painting. At the same time, Vladimir Shinkarev represents the St. Petersburg artistic tradition. He is known for his ascetic approach: monochrome colors, lapidary form, monotony of texture. "Quiet beauty" poetized by Vladimir Shinkarev does not require carnival gestures. His mastery is in the perfection of compositional solutions, tonal structure, ingenious capacity and laconic images.

Vladimir Shinkarev was born in 1954 in Leningrad. From 1974 till 1977 he studied art at the Repin Academy of Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture and at the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design. Since 1975 he began participating in apartment exhibitions of non-conformist artists. Vladimir Shinkarev’s book “MITKI” (1984) gave rise to the movement of the same name. Thus, he became one of the cofounders of this group, and left it in 2008. He is also known as novelist, author of a number of books, including "Maxim and Fyodor" (1978-80), which now have a cult status. In 2008 Shinkarev was awarded the Literature Prize named after Joseph Brodsky. His works are in the collections of the The State Tretyakov Gallery, The State Hermitage Museum, The State Russian Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK). Shinkarev lives and works in St. Petersburg.