"CITY. PERSON. DESTINY ... "exhibition of artists from St. Petersburg and Moscow in the CHA from July 5

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International Art Forum " Parallel Worlds " as part of "free artist PETERSBURG" is at the " City. Face. Fate ... "in the CHA ( Hall 8 , from 5 to July 22) Creativity 18 established artists from St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Participants: Alex Talaschuk Alexander Kondurov Ivan Lubennikov Sergei Geta, Latif Kazbekov Leonid Kolibaba , Dmitry Ikonnikov , Lucy Kondurova Valery Lucca, Vyacheslav Mikhailov , Hope Nikolayev , Oleg Yakhnin, Andrey Bisti , Bulgakov , Olga , Olga Grechina Mikhail Yermolov Alexander Sitnikov , Gabriele Lockstaedt ...

The " free artists of St. Petersburg " allows Muscovites get comprehensive overview of the current state of the famous Leningrad- Petersburg school of painting and monumental art. Particularly interesting to look at it in relation to the Moscow tradition figurativizma .

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Those who would like to attend the opening - July 5, at 17.00, as usual, please write me a PM or at : artgalera@gmail.com

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Thus, 9 out of St. Petersburg, 8 Muscovites, and Gabriel Lokshtedt from Munich. Academicians and Corresponding Member, folk and honored artists of the first postwar generation that breathed freedom of peaceful time in the period of apprenticeship and creative development.
What they have in common? The unity of views on the world art and culture. All of them are representatives of modern art, developing a traditional Moscow and St. Petersburg-Leningrad "school".
Here, he writes about one of the exhibitors, muralist, Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Kondurov (St. Petersburg). «Today, the school is experiencing a certain crisis. The rapidly evolving in the direction of current trends, art has lost many precious qualities, acquired over centuries of history, experience, brought from the past by our predecessors, was unclaimed. This deficit is already becoming visible in the world of art. The interaction of artists - is an attempt to understand his creative method, working closely with colleagues whose opinion you trust ».

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But since the other exponents, Ivan Lubennikov (Moscow) - painter and muralist, national artist of Russia , Academician of Russian Academy of Arts , - answered the question of the famous Moscow art critic William Meiland ( from the book " I.Lubennikov . Work in architecture. Painting" - should be say that the conversation is held much earlier than a book - in the already distant 1998 ): " ... many artists refuse to traditional materials (canvas , paint) , and from itself, as they say, " conservative art ". Do you have enough conventional means to express themselves in the modern world? There is a temptation to play in conceptual or in any fashion still playing? I.Lubennikov : If we look at art as a series of innovations and inventions , then the artists and inventors are right and all about what's new techniques and unusual materials . But I basically alien to the momentary . For me, traditional materials - the most reliable . "

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The exhibitors' Gorod.Litsa.Sudby ... "at the Moscow Central House of Artists authors have already gone down in history of Soviet and Russian art.
Olga Bulgakov (Moscow) - Academy of Arts - in 1970 her painting, with its inherent theatricality is the author of this reality, has become one of the major "trend", as one would say now, opposing the official art under the same official art exhibitions.
Sergei Geta (Moscow) - Honored Artist of Russia, - he was at the forefront of style in art that got the name "hyperrealism" in his interpretation of Soviet and now the elements and tools of painting "hyper" is used by almost all modern Russian figurativisty.
Alex Talaschuk (St. Petersburg) - monumental and enamel, People's Artist of Russia, Academician of the Academy of Arts, President of the St. Petersburg GHPA them. AL Stieglitz. The well-known St. Petersburg art critic Michael Herman describes the stylistic features of the work of this great master: "He is subject to the work of the finest faces figurative and non-objectivity, the very" substance art "in his paintings and watercolors there is a thinking stuff like, giving birth to streams of memories, myths, and therefore the Hellenic motifs seen in his works naturally and harmoniously. "

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The exhibition "Gorod.Litsa.Sudby", which takes place in the CHA until July 22, organized a "free artists of St. Petersburg" and «Artforum PARALLELWORLDS». Top of social charity project "Free the artists of St. Petersburg" marked a successful cooperation with a group of masters graduates, teachers and students of Art and Industrial Academy. AL Stieglitz and the Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg for the restoration of Orthodox shrines in Kronstadt. Recalls the initiator and organizer of the project "Free Artists of St. Petersburg" Yuri Saulidi: « During the rebuilding of the Temple and the Chapel of St. Nicholas Tikhvin icon of Our Lady in Kronstadt, we saw what happens when a revival of the church puts so much soul masters, the masters of this and then how people react. We realized that there is something that can irreversibly lost in the swirling current time - namely, the traditions of the school in Leningrad, St. Petersburg and Moscow art schools, which for centuries in Russia were strong and rattled all over the world ».

What is the school? School of Classical artistic tradition. Effectively even if this concept in our time, which is shaking the trends of contemporary art, where there is often an idea or intention are much more important to implement the project on the canvas, on paper or in a metal and wood.
In fact, to show that the phenomenon of school no one and nothing can undo three years ago in St. Petersburg artists, and assembled into a community "free artists of St. Petersburg" - restored the church, held group exhibitions. A year ago, they brought their exhibition in Moscow, it is seen in Moscow friends and colleagues, all decided together that they have so much in common, and the connection between the "classical" painters, graphic artists, sculptors and monumental St. Petersburg and Moscow in the post-Soviet years were too weak and broken ...
So, it was decided to hold a joint exhibition. Artists close in spirit vyuchenikov classical Soviet school, representatives of the generation born after World War II.

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Art Project Director Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Kondurov says global design concept as : « and in St. Petersburg and Moscow is well known artists we know. We all almost a generation "winners ." We grew up on the Khrushchev thaw , in countering the dominant ideas of art and the Soviet times , we were formed as artists from those times , in the 70 - 80's and had already practiced this art. Times change, change the overall picture of the world of art. Against this background, I could see that we are all lost. Dispersed to separate galleries, dispersed across countries, and, most importantly , we have ceased to exist as a single cultural layer . And now, today , we again joined forces . And , you know, when the broom is made up of separate knots, it is unsinkable and not destroyed . Here's a great tremendous strength that we once again want to reveal to the people ».


+ A few more photos from the opening of the exhibition