Exhibition project ‘THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD-2015’ opens the new season in THE YEAR OF THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Exhibition Project THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD presents the theme of Russian Literature being reflected in contemporary Russian Arts.
The subject has always been and still is one of the most generous, bright and interesting themes influenced by the great and mighty Russian Language and the men of genius who through decades have been creating our Russian Literature – the foundation for creating unique and vivid works.

Participants of Exhibition Project THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD are the top-level contemporary paiters, artists working in graphics and sculptors of several generations in Russian arts: from recognised and honoured masters to those very young, the students of Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov and Moscow State Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts named after Stroganov.

In August 2014, the first prsentation of THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD Project took place in the Marina Tsvetaeva Memorial Museum, Moscow, which was truly appreciated by artists, arts critics, people working in museums. The dislay offers the portraits of Russian poets and prose writers from Alexander Pushkin to Joseph Brodsky.

In the autumn of 2014, the Project was exhibited twice in Moscow; the third display "NO, I'M NOT BYRON; I AM YET ANOTHER CHOICE…" was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of M.Yu. Lermontov and had a significant effect in public life.

The participants of Exhibition Project THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD were happy to know that the President of the Russian Federation announced 2015 to be the YEAR OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE; our creative team has started working on the subject as early as in the beginneng of 2014.

Exactly one year ago, Exhibition Project THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD is coming back to hospitable halls of the Marina Tsvetaeva Memorial Museum, where from the 30th of July to the 31st of August, our creative team will present the new exposition.

Exhibition project ‘THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD-2015’ opens the new season in THE YEAR OF THE RUSSIAN LITERATURE

We cannot not help remembering the most important event of the year 2015 – 70 years after the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Again, the current life flow overwhelms us, the life full of contrasts and contradictions, society breaking into various political into groups by pokitical attitudes, full of ‘humanitarian disasters’ bringing death to absolutely innocent people. Hence we have named our new exhibition ‘WAR AND PEACE’ with definite reference to L.N. Tolstoy while focusing on the very core of the word combination.

The Project THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD - 2015 will demonstrate
large-scale works by Honoured Artist of the RF Konstantin Khudiakov, icons and carved icons by Honoured Artist of the RF Nikolay Chibisov and Liudmila Chibisova; masterly watercolours by Honoured Artist of the RF Valeriy Ryabovol from the series‘Distemper in Russia, the 17th Century’, portraits of Alexander Prokhanov, Yuri Bondarev and Yuriy Polyakov by Honoured Artist of the RF Gennadiy Zhivotov.

Painter, sculptor and medallist Igor Khamrayev is presenting his medals, sculptures and paintings from the series ‘The Tale of Igor’s Army’; Head of the Ryabiches’ Creative Atelier, well-known sculptor  скульптор Alexander Ryabichev is displaying sculptural compositions from the series ‘Russian village’; artist Margarita Siourina is coming with her new paintings including ‘The Appearance of Saint Michael jn Easter Day’ (‘The Appearance of Archangel on the Good Day of Resurrection of Christ’) and ‘The Appearance of St. John the Divine in Borisoglebskiy Pereulok in Moscow’; famous sculptor Stepan Mokrousov-Guil’yelmi is exibiting sculptural Portraits of Alexander Pushkin and Andrei Voznesensky, variations in painting on graphics of Russian writers.

At the exhibition, there will also be displayed digital photomontage works by Alexandra Zagryazhskaya and Sergey Pogoreliy, elegy paintings by Tatiana Gorelova, and piercing graphics by Anatoliy Kretov-Dazhd’, who for 16 years has been creating graphic sheets to the works by F.M. Dostoyevsky.

Sculptor and painter Margarita Yurkova is exhibiting sculptures, works in painting ‘Golden Angel’ and ‘Novorossia’, artist Natalya Nedel’kina is demonstrating her trilogies ‘The Last Duel in Russian Literature’ and ‘Between War and Peace’.

Ekaterina Uspenskaya, Aleksey Loptev, Daniela Ryabicheva, Konstantin Malyutin, Sophia Zagryazhskaya will present their own views of the theme.

Traditionally, at the exhibition PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD we are going to display artistic heritage of previous generations of Russian Arts.

This year we are presenting the work ‘Unsubdued’ (1946) by People’s Artist of the USSR Alexander Kibalnikov, the work was first cast in bronze in 2013 in the Ryabichevs’ Creative Atelier; and paintings by People’s Artist of Russia Gennadiy Kirillovich Sevostjanov.

Exhibition Project THE PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD is opening its second season.

We are especially happy to point to our cooperation with the Marina Tsvetaeva Memorial Flat and Museum Cultural Centre, Moscow; each time we come back to this place joyfully for everything here is penetrated with the spirit of Russian Literature, the very walls of this place bring to memory reminiscences of happy and bitter days of Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva; moreover, very nice people work here in this Moscow Memorial Museum.

On the opening of the second season of Exhibition Project PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD, we are preparing the Catalogue of our permanent participants.

Catalogue of PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD 2014-2015» is presented by the Marina Tsvetaeva Memorial Flat and Museum Cultural Centre and the Creative Union of Russian Artists. Historically, the Creative Union of Russian Artists is one of the first creative associations of artists in our country. And today, the Creative Union of Russian Artists is definitely the leader in creative activities in Russian artistic life.

Poetical readings are also integrated into the Project schedule: International Academy of Russian Literature with its President Yuriy Beliaev, Association DOOS of the ‘Magazine ‘POetov’,will perform their programmes; poet Konstantin Kedrov, the Chief Editor of the Magazine will present issues of poetical magazines dedicated to L.N. Tolstoy and A.P. Chekhov.

Exhibition Project PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN FINE WORD –2015 will open on the 30th of July, 2015, in the Marina Tsvetaeva Memorial Museum; Exposition ‘WAR AND PEACE’ will stay in the Museum till the 31st of August 2015. It’s very symbolical – from the Poet’s name-day to Memorial Day of the Poet. It’s a great honour and a great responsibility.
We hope we will be able both to excite our visitor and involve him of her in a dialogue.

See you at the opening of the new season!

Margarita Siourina, the Artist,
Author of the Exhibition Project Idea