Personal exhibition of Nikas Safronov at the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts Automatic translate

October 24 at 17:00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 103) will be the official opening ceremony of the personal exhibition of Honored Artist of Russia Nikas Safronov.

Prior to the opening of the exhibition at 16:00, a press conference will be held in which the artist himself will take part. Representatives of the media will have a unique opportunity to personally ask the author questions of interest.

Nikas Stepanovich Safronov was born on April 8, 1956 in Ulyanovsk. Graduated from Moscow State Art Institute. V.I. Surikova. Honored Artist of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, professor of Ulyanovsk University.

For 40 years, Nikas Safronov has been a regular participant in the largest domestic and foreign exhibitions. He managed not only to gain the interest and recognition of the general public, but also received awards and titles for his active creative work: he was awarded the gratitude of the Russian Academy of Arts, the gold medal of the American Academy of Sciences and Arts, etc., in 2013 he received the title “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation”.

Most of the viewers are familiar with his works from magazine reproductions, since the bulk of the artist’s paintings are in private collections in Russia and abroad, as well as in museums in Western Europe and America.

Well-known Western collectors purchased more than 800 paintings by Nikas Safronov. Among the owners of his paintings are such stars as Sophia Loren, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierre Cardin, Diana Ross, Montserrat Caballe, Madonna, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nikita Mikhalkov, as well as the largest managers and founders of businesses from the Forbes magazine.

Now Nikas Safronov is one of the most successful contemporary Russian artists, works in many graphic genres: portrait, animalism, landscape, plot and thematic paintings, which in his works are often mixed up and appear before the viewer in the form of a kind of surrealism of the visible world. From under the artist’s brush, even a portrait emerges with a breakthrough into a fantastic space (portrait of Sophia Loren, Monica Bellucci, Madonna). Unusual shades of reality appear in his author’s style “Dream vision”, where reality is hidden under the thin veil of bygone time, as evidenced by the delicate, whitish color scheme and complex pictorial texture.

The exhibition will feature about 80 works by Nikas in different genres - subject compositions with surrealistic motifs, a series of works in the style of symbolism, animal paintings, and paintings in the author’s style of Dream vision.

Visitors to the city, visiting the exhibition, will be able to discover not only the variety of genres and pictorial techniques in which the author works, but also a glimpse into the world of the past, revealed in a series of thematic paintings “historical illustrations”.

The exposition of Nikas Safronov’s works has already been seen and appreciated in Odessa, Kiev (Ukraine); Yekaterinburg, Saransk, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Yaroslavl, Voronezh, Volgograd, Saratov, Kirov Tyumen and many other cities of Russia.

The exhibition is designed for a wide range of visitors and runs until November 30, 2014.

The museum is open from 10.00 to 18.00, on Thursday from 11.00 to 19.00.

Monday is the day off.

Address: st. Lenin, 103. Contact phone - 8 (4842) 22 61 58.