[Art-Galera]

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.