Rocket to Russia
Damien Deroubaix
18.11.2023 - 02.12.2023

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
POLINA SHCHERBYNA

Rocket to Russia - Painting as combat sport


During the outbreak of the second part of the invasion of Ukraine by Putin’s Russian army, I was painting works referring to German renaissance painting and its major themes treated by Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien and other great painters: the young girl and death, the rider, death and the devil...

The Zelensky stone – a rereading of the Caillou Michaux, featured in the collections of the National Library of France –welco- mes the visitor. As with its illustrious ancestor, it will be a question of territory. But instead of being crowned with Mesopotamian deities, the paintings presented in the exhibition will be reworked.

The Zelensky pebble, a rereading of the Michaud pebble in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, will welcome visitors. As with its illustrious ancestor, it will be a question of territory. But instead of being crowned with Mesopotamian divinities, the paintings presented in the exhibition will be re-enacted there.

After Nikolay Karabinovych, Daniil Revkovskiy & Andriy Rachinskiy, Polina Shcherbyna, a young artist from Kyiv, will present a work in the window.


Damien Deroubaix