Tanja Perskaja in her art studios pretending to be
a fair knight, with a self build paper Castle infront...
The
Grail exhibitions had been several by their numbers.
The first one has been performed at Gallery Gummeson,
Stockholm, Sweden, in September 1985. There
the Round Table n.1 was a central point, together
with the six large oil paintings on the paper 250 x 150 cm.
The next Grail exhibition appeared at the Art Fair Stockholm
in Mars 1986. The third one occurred 1987 in the city of
Cologne, W. Germany, at Gallery Baecker. This gallery was
partly situated in a beautiful building dated from 1900, partly
in an ancient Old Tower of Cologne, belonging to the wall
which surrounded an old town and originated from the third
century A.C.. The owner of the gallery, Frau Inge Baecker,
placed my Grail art objects to where She thought they belong:
in the ancient Tower of Cologne.
The original idea to Grail_series came to me about 1983
as a result of a series of regressions to my previous lives.
It was also a certain book which was steadily in my hand,
'The Holy Blood & the HolyGrail', written
by the three BBC journalists: Baigent, Leigh &Lincoln.
Not to mentioned the domestic medieval historian,
my own mother, and my childhood reading of as well medieval
as a modern literature in question.
The first one has been performed at Gallery Gummeson,
Stockholm, Sweden, in September 1985. There
the Round Table n.1 was a central point, together
with the six large oil paintings on the paper 250 x 150 cm.
The next Grail exhibition appeared at the Art Fair Stockholm
in Mars 1986. The third one occurred 1987 in the city of
Cologne, W. Germany, at Gallery Baecker. This gallery was
partly situated in a beautiful building dated from 1900, partly
in an ancient Old Tower of Cologne, belonging to the wall
which surrounded an old town and originated from the third
century A.C.. The owner of the gallery, Frau Inge Baecker,
placed my Grail art objects to where She thought they belong:
in the ancient Tower of Cologne.
The original idea to Grail_series came to me about 1983
as a result of a series of regressions to my previous lives.
It was also a certain book which was steadily in my hand,
'The Holy Blood & the HolyGrail', written
by the three BBC journalists: Baigent, Leigh &Lincoln.
Not to mentioned the domestic medieval historian,
my own mother, and my childhood reading of as well medieval
as a modern literature in question.
The English carpenter Mr. Russel with the artist,
just after The Round 2_Table's accomplishment.
La Vallee Dieu, nearby Rennes-le-Chateue, France
- wooden art work, designed & painted by Perskaja, build by Russel
Diameter 180 cm , 70 cm high. All the measures have a special meaning
Massive wood: 400 years old chestnut tree grown at the Pyrenees
The idea: a correspondence Table_Universe. The structure consists of
four main parts - the four elements, earth, water, air & fire, as well as the
four directions: N, S, E &W. The eight legs correspond to the eight planets
of the Solar system with a model of a Sun as a middle point
on the horizontal surface of the Table.
A glimse of the exhibition 1987 at the Old Tower
of Cologne, Gallery Inge Baecker.