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In the technological heart of St Petersburg, in the Lenpolygraphmash campus, sits that very Asian bistro, “Asians” — and next to it the MAKE AIR studio and gallery.
The bistro holds a replica of the print “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” made by me.
The founders, taken with my relief painting, commissioned a work on a Japanese theme, one that reaches us from shunga, the Japanese erotic art.
During the work the painting was cut into two parts, because at that size it would not fit through the door.
Shunga is Japanese erotic art. That is what it is called now — “erotic,” a fairly soft word, delicate even. Only a few years ago it was hard to imagine that shunga would reach Western culture at all, let alone find a certain popularity there.
Literally, the word shunga means “a picture of spring.” In Japanese, “spring” is a common euphemism for sex.
Replica of “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”
Canvas 350 × 250 cm
Relief painting
Artist Ksenia Eliseeva
