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  • SATKA – AALBORG: THE SONG OF GUARDIANS

21.11–21.11

Art has no boundaries, it unites various artists astonishingly; it connects countries and cities which dwellers would have never known about each other’s existence. E.g., what do Aalborg of Denmark and Satka of Ural have in common? We are united by our two awesome friends, Hendrik Beikirch, artist, and Boris Latypov, the main character of the artist’s new exhibition who works as an Alpha-2 PSF security guard at Magnezit.

They met this year during the Satka Street Art Fest. Now a graphic and notable portrait of Boris is a part of Hendrik’s new Guardians series.

There was an exhibition Hendrik Beikirch + Hedley Roberts – dobbelt solo opened in Wolfsen gallery (central Aalborg, Denmark) in early November. The exhibition of artists’ duo is arranged in black and white but those are very different styles, emotions and ideas.

 “The whole gallery transforms and spreads out in black and white. This is an extraordinary, completely different artistic experience”, promoters say. “Warriors of Hendrik Beikirch (Germany) are several hundreds of canvases of various size and depth. It’s like an allusion to various layers of truth that are in the state of conflict. The series tells the stories of people standing on the opposite sides of this conflict: soldiers and football clubs’ fans. In some sense, the artworks are trying to unite these sides. The characters are left with no differences separating them. However, each one of them has his own individual truth based on the same desires and hopes on both sides of the conflict”.

Whole other kind of warm and calm emotions complement and balance out the belligerent part of the series, i.e. portraits of the security guard and a girl in stylized soldier’s uniform.

Hedley Roberts (England) works consist “basically of the faces and stories they project: hope, power, dreams, problems… black and white colour scale makes them very vivid, graphic and attractive because of their artistic power”.

Source: Magnezitovets.

Photos from Wolfsen gallery Facebook page