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Libertango: Drawings

TRIBUTE TO PIAZZOLLA AND DRAWINGS ON MODERN MUSIC

Michael's famed Libertango. After Piazzolla series were born as his tribute to his favourite Tango Nuevo composer Astor Piazzolla who Michael believes is a genius in contemporary music. Piazzolla was able to create a new world which encompasses emotional sphere of people to vast degree. Piazzolla's is the world of life full of emotions, memories, thoughts, whispers and screams, laughs and tears, smiles and nostalgic thoughts, dreams and fantasies, all this done with superb sensitivity and taste. Michael believes that mankind is really lucky to have Piazzolla and his music. He tried to reflect on his understanding and reading Astor Piazzolla and his world in his Libertango collection. The core collection has been created by the artist in 2013, but yet before, and also thereafter he was and is creating more art works for this ongoing collection of works. 

 

Libertango. After Piazzolla series has been very successfully exhibited internationally. Exhibitions were curated by Inna Rogatchi.  The collection and its exhibition has been selected as the only solo exhibition at the official program of the International Culture Days in Zagare, Lithuania, in 2015. It was also exhibited in Finland, the UK, Italy, the USA and the other countries. Most of the works from the core collection now belong to many notable private collections in the USA, Canada, Italy, Austria, Italy, the UK, Lithuania, Israel, Russia and Finland. 

 

Libertango series is featured in the musical video-essay presentation - please consult Video Presentations  page on this site.  

 

Special art brochure Libertango. After Piazzolla by Michael Rogatchi  has been also published. 

 

The artist continues to work on this direction of his thoughts and ideas, with new works are added to this collection every year. 

                       Conversation. Indian Ink, oil pastel on dark-blue Italian hand-made cotton paper. 20 x 30 cm. The Rogatchi Art Collection. 

                      Dreaming Rainbow. Indian Ink, oil pastel on dark-blue Italian hand-made cotton paper. 20 x 30 cm. 2012. Private collection, Italy. 

From Beyond the Horizon. Tribute to maestro Ennio Morricone. Oil pastels, Indian ink on yellow Italian hand-made cotton paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2020. From Beyond the Horizon. Tribute to maestro Ennio Morricone. Oil pastels, Indian ink on yellow Italian hand-made cotton paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2020.

   Without Ending. Indian Ink, oil pastels on peach cotton        paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2015. Private collection, London, UK.

   White Blues. Indian Ink, Oil pastels on red cotton paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2015. Private collection, Austria. 

   Tuned-In. Indian Ink, oil pastels on red cotton paper. 65 x  50 cm 2015. Private collection, Finland.

   Show Is Off. Indian Ink, oil pastels on dark-blue cotton        paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2015. Private collection, Austria.

   Black Trombone Variations II. Indian Ink, oil pastels on      dark-blue cotton paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2013. Private                     collection, Lithuania. 

   The Light of a Song. Indian Ink, Oil pastels on violet            cotton paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2015. Private collection, UK.

   Libertango. Tribute to Astor Piazzolla. Indian Ink, oil           pastels on dark-blue cotton paper. 2015.

   Always. Indian Ink, oil on pastels on dark-blue cotton paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2015.

        Black Trombone Variations III. Indian Ink, oil pastels on violet cotton paper. 50 x 70 cm. 2015. 

       Tango Memories. Indian Ink, oil pastels on dark-blue paper. 20 x 30 cm. 2012. Private collection, Milan, Italy.

  Duetto Cantabile. Indian Ink, oil pastels on yellow cotton    paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2015. Private collection, Canada.

   Star Dance I. Indian Ink, oil pastels on blue cotton paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2013. Private collection, Milan, Italy. 

  Star Dance II. Indian Ink, oil pastels on dark-blue cotton paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2012. Private collection, New York, USA.

  Dance III. Indian Ink, oil pastels on yellow cotton paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2013. Private collection, New York, USA.

  Dance Me to the Moon. Indian Ink, oil pastels on dark-         blue cotton paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2012. Private collection,           London, UK.

Talk to Me. Homage to Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich. Indian Ink, oil pastels on dark-blue cotton paper. 70 x 50 cm. 2013. Private collection, Washington D.C., USA. 

  Woman in Red Hat. Indian Ink, oil pastels on dark-blue  cotton paper. 70 x 50 cm. 2013. Private collection,                   Washington D.C., USA.

   Breakthrough. Indian Ink, oil pastels on violet cotton paper. 65 x 50 cm. 2015.

   Tango Il Bella Rosa. Indian Ink, oil pastels on blue                cotton  paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2019. Private collection, Israel. 

  Swinging in the Night. Indian Ink, oil pastels on red            cotton paper. 50 x 35 cm. 2017. Private collection, Russia.