Family style is not difficult to discern / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti

The exhibition "Brod & Brod" in the gallery "Rosa Azora" is a family one. To the cabinet plastics (as funny as it is to call small rough models of factory buildings that way) of Alexander Brodsky, there is added the graphics of his son, also Alexander. Or vice versa - the graphics are the main thing here, and the gray clay houses with pipes put it in a comfortable context, forcing us to compare it with themselves, and not with the sheets of other artists.

For Brodsky Jr., this was his first public showing, fraught with the danger of fading into the shadow of his famous father's works. But it didn't happen: Brodsky Sr. deliberately dampened the dull charm of his factory monsters with a small size, trying to make the exhibition harmonious, with the works of the two authors proportionate.

The graphics and objects are united, first of all, by the family melancholic charm, which for many years provided Brodsky Sr. with professional recognition and love of the public. His son's graphics are about the same thing - a depressive urban space, and also with an ambiguous mood. On small-format sheets, gloomy walls, fences, pipes are depicted in detail and subtly, almost like miniatures. Their appearance awakens sadness and a feeling of exile, with which he has long since become accustomed as native and necessary.

If the graphics were exhibited without the support of plastic art, they would have to withstand a mental comparison with dark urban landscapes, of which there are many good ones in the history of art. But this is how a family story about paternal care and tenderness turned out.

Until June 7th

Two Alexander Brodskys exhibited at Rosa Azora