I hope with all my heart that when the male dominated rage in the world stops that we can get back to our passionately heartfelt feminine creative lives again.

Daniil Kovalyov is a Sculptor working in Moscow. He creates foremost considerably large bronze sculptures together with his team of assistants.

"We call this place Armageddon", Daniil says, referring to the workshop where the bronze sculptures are cast. The bronze workshop and the adjoining enormous studio was once the workplace of what Pete Kilkenny refers to as the, "Russian Michelangelo", Dmitry Ryaybichev.

Dmitry Ryabichev was a soviet artist who made colossal sculptures under the communist regime. After the fall of communism he became internationally known particularly through his affinity and connection to India making numerous sculptures of Mahatma Ghandi, Jawaharlal Nehru and the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi with whom he had personal contact.

Daniil Kovalyov is the partner of the great sculptor's grand-daughter Daniela Ryabicheva who is also an artist.

MoMA Lemon Gallery came into contact with Daniil via Pete Kilkenny when he was invited to be, "Artist in Residence", in the same studios in Moscow in 2016.


An exhibition of Daniil Kovalyov's work would have been exhibited in MoMA Lemon Galleries & Studios in Tittmoning & Burghausen in Germany in 2022 though a virus prevented this happening, now the war is on it remains impossible.

My desire to couple Moscow with New York here in Tittmoning is strengthening day by day, the bronze statues of Hans & Masha symbolic of the possibility to connect east with the west, the bronzes of cows & lemons & a bavarian version of the Wall Street Bull realise themselves in my mind as if already there standing on the Market Square Stadtplatz in Tittmoning so vivid the imagination, free to roam in all worlds. I know no war only art.