Exhibition LN Smorgon in St. Petersburg

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February 17, 2009 at 16.00 The new exhibition hall of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture invites the anniversary retrospective of works by well-known Petersburg sculptor Lev Naumovich Smorgon. The exhibition will feature paintings and sculpture masters.

Leo Smorgon belongs to the number of artists whose start is not setting the creative path. He, like all the baby boomers "in the Sixties, intoxicated peaceful time and opportunity to freely create, hastened to put their creative energies in different areas of artistic activity.
After graduating from college in 1952 it. VI Mukhina, was preparing an applied artists, he began his biography on the successful work in porcelain plastic, studied art glass, invented, which became popular at the time, witty in design toys.

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Arts and crafts of those years, suddenly emerged from the long forgotten and has assumed a leading position in the hierarchy of the visual arts, not only reflects the spirit of the times (Zeitgeist), but also to a large extent it is determined by allowing many talented artists to implement new ideas and implement non-conformist strategy. Among them is Leo and Smorgon.
   However, in the 70 gg.plastichesky gift of the artist taking their revenge, and he finally and irrevocably away "with his head" in the sculpture. Over the years, changing tastes and preferences, worked through their own creative style, his artistic method and his artistic vision, allowing the unmistakable of his works, among many others, but the creative impulse received by the artist in the late 50s-early 60's gg.neveroyatnaya energy and vitality , openness to everything new and the capacity for continuous self-learning remain with Smorgon today.
  On one of the faces of its multi creativity deserves mention. This is a sculptural works made of stone. All of them, and figures, portraits, literally assembled, constructed of large blocks of granite, raznonapravlenno shifted to the central axis, but skillfully balanced between each other, are joined only by small planes, but hang on through the design found by its own gravity. This distinct Markedness plastic elements, accented by the loss of statics, supplemented by color and textural contrasts, stone. Brutal forms of these works, with special focus natural properties of the material and the exposing of the creative process, as it crossed archaic and modern, offering a certain proto-filled almost palpable primal energy that mysterious way skorrektirovanna realities of today.
Despite the apparent minimalism of means and conditional expression, the works Smorgon never lose their fine start. They always an easily readable image uznavemoe portraits.
Art "pedigree" of these works, if not originated, it is apparently connected with those trends in art, obtained the name of art brut and Natur-Kunst. As if created by nature itself, these sculptures are closely and uncomfortable in any closed space - whether studio or showroom. Plastic itself manifest their form appeals to the open space of the city or the freedom of the natural landscape.
Quite a different hypostasis in the creation of Smorgon, his sculpture in bronze, was built not on the architectonics of the major forms of lapidary, and the active plastic, forming a free and bold rhythms, to the expressive, almost picturesque, developmental work of surface, compositional and textural richness of moves, the play of light and shadow , volume and voids, gaps and joints, it is more intimate and intimate, more verbose and emotionally saturated.
Not instead, but is always parallel with work in sculpture, Smorgon been painting a lot and draws inspiration. These various facets of his talent. Interweaving and complementing each other, are interfaced to a single whole, whose name-creation.

Museum "The State Museum of Urban Sculpture"
Address: Nevsky Prospect, d.179 /2, lit. "A", tel.: 274-26-35, Metro Station Nevsky Prospekt

The exhibition will be open from February 17 to March 18.
Opening hours from 11.00 to 17.30. Weekend: Thursday, Friday