OVCHARENKO together with VLADEY presents Inal Savchenkov's solo exhibition. Inala's name is part of the history of the Leningrad underground. He moved to St. Petersburg from Novorossiysk in 1982 and got into the very center of unofficial culture. Timur Novikov, Georgy Guryanov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Sergey Kuryokhin ... — together with them Savchenkov develops an original artistic language.
Later Inala will be called a bright representative of the school of Leningrad neo-expressionism. Art critic Nora Cohn for Look At Me: "For Inal Savchenkov, the main thing is imagination and also childlike spontaneity. His paintings are stories with fantastic characters, animated freeze-frame. He creates absurd cartoons in collage technique (see the clip of S. Kuryokhin and his "Pop Mechanics"). The absurd is the gateway to the hidden. Meaningless situations or situations in which a person finds himself often reveal the noumenal being of a person ("the innermost heart of a person") and his attitude to what transcends his understanding." Inal himself calls himself an experimenter, and his fans — "the kindest artist in the world."
Inal Savchenkov's works today are a unique opportunity to look at how the principles laid down by the "New Artists" at the end of the last century are developing and living in the modern world. In 2022, Inal presents the idea of virtualization of real space, which he calls "vector graphics": any object can be scanned and presented as a set of numbers, and you can set your vector for any object on the canvas. This approach to painting even today sounds like know-how, and was invented back in the 90s. Inal opens a new chapter in search of those years already as an honored artist with an instantly recognizable manner and his iconic subjects. Seascapes, penguins on an ice floe, a scene in the doctor's office, an anthropomorphic character at the piano… In 1988, it was the painting on the plot with the piano that got on the cover of the first youth issue of the legendary magazine "Art". Inal Savchenkov is the last "new" artist, and he is also the first symbol of the new time.
