Curator START Arseniy Zhilyaev about Valentin Tkachev: "Through painting technique Tkach Valentin discovers relationship with his childhood came to the period of stagnation. On his canvases to meet the seemingly incompatible pieces of different visual languages - the architecture of the late Soviet modernism to painterly abstraction. Social disaster encrypted in a faded upholstery chair empty theater DK ". Developing personal pictorial technique Valentin Weaver refers to cinematic thrillers and receive psychological dramas. Vertigo - effect approach, "absorption" of the background object contemplated in the stillness. Disease state, which is accompanied by a feeling of constant movement, rotation of surrounding objects when "the earth was slipping from under his feet." Playing the old theaters, abandoned industrial sites, the artist seemed to draw pictures of the hypnotic sleep. Valentin Weaver was born in 1974 in Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Art. He participated in group exhibitions of the capital "I, nature" (Foundation Modern City), "Where we have" (Gallery Office Art Business Consulting), «Machine and Natasha" and "Taming of time" (PROEKT_FABRIKA). He currently lives and works in Moscow and Sergiev Posad.