"Dimitry Gerrman: Poetry of Form"
2010-03-02 until 2010-04-30
Wally Findlay Galleries
New York, NY, USA United States of America

Dimitry Gerrman was born in 1955 in Gomel, Belorussia, USSR; a child of communist Russia. Despite the constraints of a communistic era, at an early age he became interested in sculpture and drawing. As a testament to his remarkable skill, at seven he completed his first sculpture and at 12 he was recognized at the 1967 National Exhibition of Youth Art in Moscow with a Gold Medal for his line etching, “Self Portrait”. Now over 50 years later, Wally Findlay Galleries is taking inspiration from these early years and is pleased to present Gerrman’s first exhibition of both sculpture and drawing. Dimitry Gerrman has been a Member of absolutearts.com since 2009.

The juxtaposition of Dimitry’s works on paper with his sculptures lures one beyond the edge of a sculptor’s chisel to reveal the underlying line from which the sculpture is born. The simplicity of the unending line conveyed in one-dimension through ink on paper complies effortlessly with the simplicity of form born in a three-dimensional bronze. Inspired in his twenties by Rodin sculptures at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Gerrman continues to explore the French master’s abstraction of form and expressionistic modeling. In doing so, he has recast the old traditions into a contemporary mold. To have the chance to admire and contemplate these line drawings alongside sculpture is to glimpse inside the mind of a creative at work. The result is poetry.

Even today on a visit to Russia one can admire Dimitry’s imprint on his country. In St. Petersburg a life-size equestrian statue stands proudly in the center of the city while further a field in Siberia, both his Monument to the Victims of World War II and eight life-size figures at The Sports Center honor his skill and passion which began at 7 years of age.

View more of Dimitry Germann's works in his Portfolio at absolutearts.com absolutearts.com/portfolios/d/dimasculptor

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