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16 works

Light, memory, and movement - captured in color.

Gena Lakoba’s paintings reflect an inner landscape shaped by memory, myth, and the natural world. With a delicate yet confident brush, he renders scenes that hover between reality and dream, where time flows slowly, and light holds emotion. Figures emerge like memories, while landscapes breathe with quiet power.

Each painting is a moment of stillness made visible - an invitation to pause, feel, and remember.

Gouache painting “Cold Grodno”: a street in grey and white tones with bare, twisted trees along the left and low houses on the right, under a bright, cold sky.Cold Grodno1993Oil painting “The Adriatic”: a green reclining female figure above a blue sea, and in front a vase of white magnolias with seashells on a draped table.The Adriatic2002Acrylic painting “Save, O God, this Earth”: green hills like a reclining body above a deep blue sea, with sailing boats, shooting stars, and seashells on a paved foreground.Save, O God, this Earth2001Oil painting “Riding a bike”: a red-skinned man and woman close together on one bicycle, with pale blue domed buildings behind them.Riding a bike1996Oil painting “The ship came”: pale, hazy buildings with a tall tower, palm trees and bright red and yellow flowers in the foreground.The ship cameOil painting “Rest among oleanders”: a pale nude woman reclining on a stone bench, with agave plants and red and yellow flowering bushes behind her.Rest among oleandersOil painting “Silvery still life”: a grey jug, a cup on a saucer and a stemmed glass with a spoon on a dark shelf, with long shadows behind them.Silvery still lifeOil painting “Requiem”: dark, metallic-looking female figures and shapes with small crosses, in black and grey with touches of red, against white gaps.Requiem1995Gouache painting “Meeting”: two faces in profile almost kissing, in grey and white, crossed by brown bands that form a cross, in a framed mount.Meeting1993Oil painting “Ritsa hotel”: a pale building with a domed tower, cypress trees, a palm and red flowering bushes in a garden, in a white decorative frame.Ritsa hotel2015Oil painting “Three figures”: three dark blue and black nude female figures, one sitting on a block, against a green leafy background.Three figuresOil painting “Amphoras of the Adriatic”: four broken terracotta amphora fragments with white sea-salt crusts on a pale surface, against a warm golden background.Amphoras of the Adriatic1999Oil painting “Sculptor and sculptures”: a man’s face at the left edge, two smooth red statues in front, and a blue statue on a pedestal beside a bouquet.Sculptor and sculptures1996Oil painting “Love game”: a seated woman with a small head and large red breasts, hands folded on her belly, in red and black against an orange-red background.Love game1993–95Painting “Campaign to Mesopotamia”: a loose, rough-brushed scene of four figures riding on a two-wheeled cart, in red, black, grey and white.Campaign to Mesopotamia1992–97Oil painting “Bilbao”: thickly painted city buildings with towers and a pointed spire under a cloudy sky, and a red bus and small figures at street level.Bilbao2016