Seventh Interregional Exhibition "Picturesque Russia" Automatic translate

The final exhibition of the interregional project "Picturesque Russia" will open in Moscow.

On November 15, 2022, the final exhibition of the Seventh Interregional Project “Picturesque Russia” will open at the Moscow House of Artists. This year it is dedicated to the art of young authors.

The organizer was the Creative Union of Artists of Russia (TSHR) with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture. The project was implemented with the use of a grant provided by the NGO "Russian Fund of Culture" within the framework of the federal project "Creative People" of the national project "Culture".

The first exhibition of the project was held in August in the exhibition center "Gallery" in Izhevsk, in September it was exhibited in the Exhibition Hall of the Vyatka Art Museum, in October in the Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts.

Exhibition “Picturesque Russia. Art of the Young" will be open to visitors in the space of the Moscow House of Artists until November 19, 2022.

Each of the 7 curators of the project will present a group of 6-8 young artists who, in their opinion, are the brightest representatives of a particular trend in modern easel painting. In total, the exhibition will feature more than 100 works.

According to the head of the project Evgeny Romashko, comparing the works of bright young artists representing different art schools will provide an opportunity to explore current trends in this segment of contemporary art. “As a result of the exhibition project, a holistic image will emerge that reflects the diversity of youth creativity, cultural values ​​and the uniqueness of Russian art,” he notes.

The "Picturesque Russia" project throughout its history supports the traditional academic and innovative trends of contemporary easel painting. Over the years, to varying degrees, young artists took part as prominent representatives of different schools, trends and trends. This year’s project is a logical continuation of last year’s project “Picturesque Russia. School of the Future”, which was dedicated to the main plastic trends in easel painting and the peculiarities of teaching in the leading educational institutions of the country.

This year, the organizers dedicated the project to young authors whose work has already developed under the influence of various factors: the historical context of Russian and Russian painting traditions, regional trends, the characteristics of the school of a particular educational institution, the creativity of teachers and mentors.

The project has been held annually since 2016 and is aimed at popularizing modern Russian easel painting. Since that time, exhibitions within the framework of the project have been held in Pskov, Stavropol, Moscow, Kirov, Smolensk, Saransk, Izhevsk, Novosibirsk, Harbin, Blagoveshchensk, Tyumen, Kazan and Vladimir. More than 300 artists and curators took part in the project.

Project curators:

Sergey Gavrilyachenko - People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Drawing Department of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after M.V. VI Surikova, Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of Russia;

Nailya Rustaeva is an art critic, a specialist in Soviet art of the 20th century, a senior lecturer at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute. V. I. Surikov;

Andrey Sklyarenko - head of the easel graphics workshop of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin, associate professor of the graphics department;

Arseniy Steiner - curator, art critic, vice-president of the TSHR for exhibition activities and special projects;

Kirill Gavrilin - Curator, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor, Lecturer, Head of the Department of History of Art and the Humanities, Advisor to the Rector for International Affairs and Public Relations, Moscow State Art Academy named after A.I. S. G. Stroganov;

Sergey Nazarov - teacher of the department "Painting" at the Krasnoyarsk State Art Institute, member of the board of the Krasnoyarsk regional organization of the VTOO "Union of Artists of Russia";

Diana Machulina – curator, chairman of the section “Recent Trends” of the TSHR, laureate of the Kandinsky Prize, laureate of the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Z. K. Tsereteli.