Gavriil Lubnin “DADDY’S GOLD”
Painting on Furniture Doors
In the gallery

Daddy’s Gold

“My father taught me to save not only wounded animals from calamities but also small toy dolls. If an animal dies, we are crying and bury it, but if a doll is crushed with a truck, we take its details. We can play with them or draw them.
When I was a little boy, I asked daddy to make me a wooden Buratino doll. Daddy made it but couldn’t fashioned a head for it. So I played with a headless doll.
Tramps sold sometimes buttons without holes, hairless toothbrushes, baby-dolls without legs. But we can invent something interesting to do with them. Still-life, for instance. My mother calls it rubbish. But I believe they are tiny treasures. Child takes it for amusement, objects for observation and development.
Daddy’s rubbish, my toys are freaks, invalids which are out of usage for the most f the people. But they are beautiful. Somebody calls them shit, somebody calls them gold.
Daddy’s gold”.
Lubnin G.

Gavriil Lubnin
was born in Leningrad in 1969.
Artist, poet, musician