Sobo Gallery presents a solo project by Andrey Semyonov — "Semenov Art School," curated by Alexander Tsikarishvili. The project includes the series "The Last Day of March or the Duck's Gaze," dedicated to the artist's personal study of the urban environment over the last 10 years, as well as other paintings and graphic works assembled into a unified installation that reveals the artist's multi-layered collage method.

His artistic and spiritual practices generate a unique mythology: thus, a new, alien Leningrad painting is born... Not a drooping brush, but quite the opposite — a hand filled with the psychedelic energy of the Cobra group: a young Asger Jorn, just graduated from the Repin Institute, and the Little Dutchmen of the Leipzig School, traveling on a tram along the closed circuit of the Arefiev Circle.

The myth that has formed around the SHS (Secondary Art School at the Academy of Arts), having become part of urban folklore, mutates and transforms in the psychedelic whirlpool of color patches. Time travels in the semi-darkness of the studio-cell. Friendship with the 17th-century Dutch. The birth of mythological subjects in a low genre: a fruity fish breakfast, a mushroom vanity of vanities, a Russo-Biedermeier landscape with ducklings, and other animated pictures of the Severe Style. And, of course, the Duck — a totemic character, a goddess endowed with universal kindness and a bearer of the transcendent gaze, neither a spectator nor the author, but a character from another world, whose gaze promises a different order, the triumph of reason and justice in the space beyond the canvas.