Edge of white nights Automatic translate

Gallery "Belyayevo" is pleased to announce that on January 20 a collective exhibition of paintings dedicated to the theme of the Russian North will open. With the support of the Moscow Union of Artists.

Participants address the viewer, satiated with topical projects, directly, through traditional art. This is not a path of provocation, but of honest contemplation, where the artist is a conductor between being and the viewer, who, in turn, is involved in the work with the help of simple tools, brushes, paints and linen canvases. The chosen way of communicating with the audience on the topic of the Russian North, which united the artists, seems reasonable and convincing.

The exhibition needs to be comprehended slowly, as well as the very concept of the “Russian North”, the meaning of which is not limited to territoriality, but has, above all, a symbolic, historical and cultural significance for the country.

Since the middle of the 19th century, educated Russian society has increasingly sought to find and understand itself, its country, people, their past and deep culture. Together with the construction of a railway branch to Arkhangelsk on Russian. The best people of the country, industrialists and financiers, inspired by patriotic feelings and educational ideas, invested their own funds in the development of the region and the awakening of genuine interest in this still outlandish region.

Outstanding Russian artists: K. Korovin, V. Serov, A. Borisov, V. Vereshchagin, A. Arkhipov and others were among the first to go on long and difficult expeditions to the shores of the White and Barents Seas, where they discovered the uniqueness of northern nature - restrained but infinitely expressive.

Having visited the North once, none of them remained indifferent: a colossal layer of paintings of world cultural significance was created.

Similar emotions are experienced by modern progressive painters who leave comfortable, warm workshops in search of themselves and inspiration in a kind of “mysterious treasury” called the “Russian North”, where the centuries-old cultural heritage of the people is concentrated and the pristine beauty of the unique northern architecture and nature has been preserved.

Traditional art does not need long curatorial texts and does not require additional explanation, it is understandable visually. Therefore, the artists, having received the most powerful aesthetic pleasure from what they saw in the north and wishing to share this feeling, speak not in difficult-to-read annotations for paintings, but in the paintings themselves, which can be seen at the exhibition “The Edge of the White Nights”.

Curator - Yulia Zhukova.

Artists: A. N. Sukhovetsky - People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, V. P. Polotnov - People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, S. I. Smirnov - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, P. T. Stronsky - People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, N. I. Zheltushko - Honored Artist Russian Federation, N. V. Burtov - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, A. A. Zakharov - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Yu. N. Popkov, E. S. Brazhunenko, Yu. A. Zhukova, V. A. Permilovsky.