Alexander Ivanov. Decorative fantasy on copper Automatic translate

Alexander Andreevich Ivanov is one of the rare successors of the traditions of one of the oldest forms of decorative and applied art - the art of coinage.

A. A. Ivanov was born into a large peasant family in the Tatar village of Martysh, Tukaevsky district of Tatarstan. He graduated from a village school, served in the missile forces in Baikonur and moved to Nizhnekamsk, where, by chance, he ended up in the design workshop of the art group of the Nizhnekamsk chemical plant. The group was led by Georgy Archuashvili, who became the “godfather” in the art of coinage for Alexander Ivanov. The hammer donated by George Vladimirovich Alexander is still with him as a creative talisman.

The personal exhibition of Alexander Ivanov, which opens at the Khazine National Art Gallery, is the thirtieth anniversary. The exhibition will feature more than seventy works by the artist, each of which is unique. Decorative fantasies on copper by A. Ivanov are diverse in subject and plot, amaze with the technique of execution, jewelry elaboration of the smallest details. The artist prefers to work in series, doing several works on a certain topic. Peaceful and dramatic pages of history (series “Battle of Kulikovo”, “Tatarstan”) are replaced in his paintings by characters of folk tales and legends (“Tales of my childhood”), plots with tea drinking - space fantasy or allegorical depiction of madness and a fall in morals (series “Human vices "), zodiac signs from the eponymous series - heraldry. Each artist’s work is a whole legend that you want to “read” slowly, take a long look, admiring the skillful reproduction of fantasy characters on copper by Alexander Ivanov.

The exhibition runs until May 6, 2018.