ЗОЛОТО И СТАЛЬ
Алексей Есипов, Кирилл Перченко

Group Exhibition | LUCH Gallery
15 August – 20 September 2026

The exhibition presents photographs made on metal by the silk‑screen printing master Alexey Esipov, in collaboration with curator Kirill Perchenko.

Silk‑screen printing is loved by artists who appreciate technological sophistication, complexity, and painstaking work. This technique is usually mass‑produced, but Alexey Esipov made these works unique by making the production process more complex: the photographs are printed using the silk‑screen method on the thin gold leaf transferred onto steel surfaces. Thus, he imbued the depictions of Moscow’s iconic sculptural and architectural monuments with even greater credibility, splendor and expressiveness, and at the same time, with sacredness and grandeur.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

ALEXEY ESIPOV
Photographer, graphic artist, silkscreen master. From 1995 to 2012, he worked at the silkscreen workshop "Moscow Studio" of the Russian Academy of Arts. He is the head of the silkscreen workshop at the School of Design. He regularly participates in major art projects and international exhibitions. In his work, he often draws attention to the impressive scale of "Stalinist" architecture, as well as to natural landscapes, capturing their epic nature.

KIRILL PERCHENKO
Curator, producer. Since 1999, he has been the author of numerous projects and exhibitions of contemporary art at the Kino gallery. He also works with art from different eras and countries and is the curator of the exhibition "Masterpieces of Western European Art of the 13th–17th Centuries" held at the Russian Academy of Arts.