The pop/off/art gallery presents an exhibition by Vladimir Shinkarev, a Soviet and Russian artist and co-founder and ideologist of the Mitki movement. The project "Life accomplished" will be the artist's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery and revolves around a series of the same name, which addresses the final year of a person, place, or cultural phenomenon as a moment of reflection, when the experience becomes complete and becomes the subject of artistic expression.

The final year of the lives of famous individuals or phenomena is captured in the series as a moment when it becomes possible to formulate the conclusion of a life, to record it as a success. The series of portraits includes historical figures (Peter the Great, John Kennedy, Jean-Paul Marat), writers (Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy), musicians (The Beatles, Frédéric Chopin), and other cultural figures who became symbols of their eras. Many of them ended their lives tragically, but it is precisely this ending that allows us to consider their lives fulfilling. Whether it's Charlotte Corday, known to us largely for her vivid, albeit tragic, epilogue, or Uncle Kolya—an acquaintance of Shinkarev's, but unknown to the general public—whose life ended neither sadly nor tragically, but was no less successful than those of the great and well-known.

This definition also applies to the final year of two significant landscapes of St. Petersburg by Vladimir Shinkarev, whose settings the artist inhabited for many years. The artist spent his childhood in the area of ​​the Borovaya station, and the embankment of the Smolenka River adjoins his studio. Observing the changes in the urban environment, the artist managed to capture the final year of the "life" of these places before they lost their former appearance due to intensive development.

"Life accomplished" combines Shinkarev's iconic landscapes with a well-defined spatial perspective and attention to places significant to the artist and their destinies, as well as the master's characteristic attention to cultural phenomena—literary, historical, and everyday contexts. The exhibition will feature 38 works by Vladimir Shinkarev, created as part of a single project, which will be shown to the public in its entirety for the first time.