In 1995-96 Galina Kakovkina and Ljubov Saprykina, with the assistance of Anna Gor and Sergey Pazushkin, created the project "Painting Interpretation", consisting of three Galina's personal exhibitions ("Walk in The Garden", "Between Thing and Emptiness", "Time Name") and of two films.
   The exhibition "Walk in the Garden", consisting of views of Aleksandrovsky Park with its rough landscapes and branchy paths, allowed authors to think over the theme of road, both including child's curiosity (what is there after the turn, beyond the horizon) and contemplation of the maturity understanding inevitability of its end.
   "Between Thing and Emptiness" was the central and, perhaps, the main exhibition of the project. It was a still life exhibition, dedicated to Thing as creation, both human creation (vessels, draperies) and Higher creation (grass, flowers, landscapes behind a window).
   The third exhibition, "Time Name", consisting of three parts: "romantic" landscapes, expressing eternal beauty of the world; winter landscapes, symbolically reflecting repeating cycle of death and resurrection, and historical portraits. The exhibition developed the theme of time, its transience, irrevocability and mystique.
   L. Saprykina's articles for catalogs of exhibitions are presented on "Article" page.

    

    In 1998 year a big exhibition "Light. The Fragments" took place in Nizhniy Novgorod exhibition complex. Exhibition presented "Urban landscape" (1996) and "Light. The Fragments" (1997) series.
   In this big project Galina tried to analyze the nature of Light, its physical and metaphysical components. Paintings are solved in dark flickering color. The main role is given to a shade Light appeared as bright patches, underlining the relief of a landscape or, in the contrary, distorting it.
   The majority of paintings are park or urban landscapes, full of mysterious internal luminescence. On rare still lifes we can see simple subjects surrounded by light or shadow, like mystical ambience.
   Today, Galina Kakovkina is still fond of courageous and unexpected light-to-dark decisions.

   Silhouettes of people walking away always impressed me very deeply. "Never", "Forever" - words full of child's fear flashed in my head, when I saw a figure moving away. The person in the big cold world bravely walks on friable snow...
   I wanted "The Way Home" to be a story about live and death. "In my father's house are many mansions." Summer evening, maybe August, is not hot, all in yellow sunset light. High grasses wave on a wind. I'm walking to my house and already see it on the horizon. It is translucent against the back cloth of the sky.
   But the way home is very long, as long as life. And it also can be a story about life.
   About a small boy, who got carried away by something and wandered somewhere. He hurries up home, and behind each bush someone hides, he hears steps behind. And at home mother is waiting for him with flagging supper.
   About a mature man, who returns home, from where he was away for many years. Over there, behind a hill the house will be visible. His heart beats, and feet weaken...
   About an old man standing in front of the fence and looking afar. He knows that he'll die soon. He imagines his way, he is anxious. He has to go alone, to go home.
    Galina Kakovkina
    The project was presented in 2008 year in Nizhniy Novgorod State Art Museum.