The Best of Worlds

A satire on the everyday life of familiar spaces, warm Chekhovian irony about the little man, and the aesthetics of "underdeveloped socialism."

Valentin Gubarev's paintings, which were considered "inappropriate" during the perestroika period in Russia and Belarus, began to generate a sensation in France years later, and the "thrown away" "doctor's sausage" once seen in a Soviet shop! 

However, the artist did not change his Belarusian residency for a foreign one: the view from the window of his Minsk studio, overheard and observed in queues and trams, inspires him much more than foreign lands.