The latest exhibition may be the last if there are planned changes in the royalty regime / Article / LSM.lv

The title of the exhibition reflects that this time one of the sculptor’s objects of interest is hormones, which affect us much more than we often think.

Each work in the exhibition is dedicated to a specific hormone, such as adrenaline, testosterone and estrogen, which are revealed through the images of different characters.

In general, the story of the exhibition is very ambiguous and philosophical, and each spectator will be able to read an important message in it.

This may be the last solo exhibition of the sculptor. In a conversation with Latvijas Radio, Panteļejevs stated:

“I can’t ignore that political discourse this time, I just want to warn you right away that this exhibition, if these royalty changes take place, is the last one at that level and in that technique.”

With such a pessimistic note, Gleb Panteleev begins the story of the exhibition this time, calling the planned changes in the royalty regime a complete dead end for himself and other artists. He is also one of the protest letters and actions. “The wall of misunderstanding”Initiators, pointing out that the planned changes will be devastating for the cultural sector, as the process of creating art cannot be equated with the production of goods.

“Thanks to the discounts we had, we were able to sell relatively freely as artists. Now it turns out that we are equated with producers, pie makers, with all due respect to them, but in this way we are placed in an absolutely discriminatory position, because we are in a much more disadvantageous position than a normal businessman, a normal entrepreneur, ”stressed Panteleyev.

In a sense, the theme of the exhibition “Hormones” also unexpectedly resonates with this attitude towards the cultural sector, because the story in the exhibition is about the constant collision of our human nature with the natural instincts dictated to us by the action of hormones.

Since most of the works were made in the spring during the quarantine period, they have also absorbed the spirit of this time, you can see cardinally opposite feelings in them – destruction and aggression, positive dynamics, and otherwise delightful peace.

Each work is symbolically dedicated to a hormone, for example, the most monumental work depicting a pair of wolves, dedicated to adrenaline, and depicts the sculptor’s feelings this spring, when they both worked with their wife, sculptor Olga Šilova, in their workshop.

The artist said: “It’s a feeling that sometimes you want to cry, but you realize that you have a job you can do, and it’s wonderful, you have to use it. Well, in principle, this is the feeling and the hormone is adrenaline here, very dynamic, forward-looking, but can also be destructive. ”

There is also work on melatonin or sleep hormone. The sculptor was inspired by a view across the Lielupe bridge, which created a sense of absolute transcendental peace in him, and this feeling was also embodied in his work.

Testosterone, or male hormone, is reflected in the work of Richard Wagner and Modest Mussorgsky, portrayed as the centaur of the Siamese twins.

“Expressed representatives of romanticism, but romanticism, like any such extreme tendency to something, is also related to sexuality, to the hormone,” said the sculptor.

There is also a work on women’s hormones estrogen and progesterone called “Women’s Day”. The work has a rather unusual creation story. Initially, it became a realistic sculpture for a customer, but Gleb Panteleyev could not understand the customer until one evening he came home so clear that the energy of anger flowed over the edges.

Panteleev said: “I came home insanely furious, I am not the one inside, I need to be discharged, I am not a restrained person. And I took those plasticine sketches and mutilated them by hand. I squirmed, straightened, squirmed again, sketched against the wall, after a while I looked and saw – wonderful, now I like these images! And these are the women, this is the rebellion of women. That’s how it happened. Very aggressive work. ”

The sculptor anticipates that both this and other works can be associated with different ideologies, because, for example, in the sculpture “Women’s Day” one may see support for feminism ideas, but at the same time someone else may see misogyny or hatred of women.

He himself does not stop emphasizing that all images are just metaphors and everyone can read them safely according to their own feelings and feelings.

Exactly the same metaphor is the image of Lenin, which he used in even two of his works, one of them is called “Pantocrator”, and the other – “Lenin in the Sea of ​​Sperm”. Lenin’s image is a metaphor for the drivers that make people change the world.

The artist explained: “Of course, I did not chlorinate him in any way, because of course he was a criminal, but in all his crimes he has done things that took the development of civilization in a completely different direction. Sperm is a symbol that he has insulted civilization with his actions. So he is very directly related to the hormonal world, but this drive makes people change the world. ”

Gleb Panteleyev’s new solo exhibition “Hormones” will begin its journey to the audience on Thursday, October 15, and will be on view at the Art XO Gallery until mid-November.

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