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Viktor Pivovarov: The Gardens of the Monk Rabinovich

Viktor Pivovarov's work is typical of his peculiarly distinctive poetry. With poetic imagination he recounts the stories of his friends, fictional persons, animals, plants and other entities, telling the fate of his parallel alter egos. One of these alter egos is the monk Rabinovich, who first appeared in the author's work in 2006 in a ten-metre-long, torah-like scroll, The Sutras of Fears and Doubts, which depicts, among many other depictions, a diagram of the monk's gardens. Pivovarov returned to this theme in 2012-2013, focusing on the connotations of the phenomenon of the garden as the equivalent of paradise. The new series of paintings in this series was created in 2020 and is one of the reasons why the Gardens of the Monk Rabinovich became the overarching motif of the exhibition.