"Three artists from St. Petersburg". Exhibition of works by Felix Volosenkov, Natalia Tsekhomskaya and Alexei Yarygin Automatic translate

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of works by the St. Petersburg creative family: Felix Volosenkov, Natalia Tsekhomskaya and Alexei Yarygin. The exposition consists of three parts: "Modern Slavic Art", "Somewhere in Time", "Alchemy in Color", and includes about 150 works of different years.

Felix Volosenkov is an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, a well-known St. Petersburg master. Each of his exhibitions is a story about the freedom of the artist, the freedom of artistic gesture, the expansion of creative will. His art is a statement of the every second need for new painting in the knowledge of infinity, Divine diversity. Volosenkov believes that his painting, graphics, object are modern Slavic art. The author of his own mythology, he believes that in the new century a new deity should appear, one for both man and the whole living world, the main commandment of which will be a humane attitude towards nature.

Broad erudition and the desire for lapidary forms are the author’s inalienable creative qualities. Researchers note the uniqueness and organic nature of his works, which cannot be classified. “His painting is the realm of redundancy, a meaningfully merciless, romantic rebellion against a priori. These are the verbal-plastic meanings necessary for him, not reducible either to the word or to the image, that is, the phenomenon. Irony and grotesque, unbridled energy and touchingness, love, betrayal, sacrifice, the miracle of birth and being - everything is united by the element of F. Volosenkov’s creativity. For him, there is no strictly defined circle of subjects, as well as the differences between abstract and figurative painting, traditional technique and innovative experiments. Everything created by the artist is considered by him as "different levels of approach to the idea", for the implementation of which there can be no restrictions. Therefore, the technique of his works is just as complex, unexpected, multidimensional. The artist’s works are textured: they use fabric, foam rubber, gesso, acrylic paints - everything that can embody what he "heard" with maximum accuracy.

Natalia Tsekhomskaya “seems, at times, to be a tightrope walker walking along a chilly light beam and balancing on the verge of all kinds of “between”: between visual and a priori, mind and feeling, technological and metaphysical,” the researchers note.

Our world is rough and material and at the same time thin, complex, multifaceted, interdependent and fragile. About this subtlety and fragility of the world, about the fact that standing on rough ground, we are part of the mysterious cosmos, about the fact that creating or destroying something in our small house, we change the space, influence events, Natalia and tells in her works. They are made in the author’s unique technique of sinography and argentography using silver bromide photographic materials. Argentography method - obtaining an image without a camera by influencing the photographic emulsion in a certain way. "Sinography" (from the Greek - "syn" - together, and "graphus" - image) - the combination on one sheet of photographic paper of images printed from several negatives, using a matrix, the configuration of which carries a semantic load. Then, depending on the task, the image is finalized with paints or other techniques, or left in black and white. She finds this very interesting because traditional (non-digital) photographic materials have unique pictorial possibilities.

Alexey Yarygin believes that art is a window through which the magic of everyday life penetrates into our home, enriching life, filling it with mystery…

“I am deeply convinced,” says the author, “that the world we live in is an amazing and beautiful mystery. And a person is simply not able to solve it. After all, everyone, even a very small piece of this world, is already some other Universe, with its own life, its own laws, its own experiences, its own mysticism… While working on a picture, the artist tries to start a conversation with the Universe, and if everything goes well, the Universe responds. Then a dialogue arises between them, as a result of which Art is born into the World. Often the viewer does not see this, because everything has its time… ".

The picturesque canvases of the artist, full of light, movement, deep meanings, a kind of "alchemy in color", the language of harmony, symbols, speak of the eternal, alluring, mysterious.

Felix Volosenkov - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art Bessmertnykh, member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists of Russia, member of the Union of Italian Artists.

Born in 1944. Graduated from the Art College. A. Azimzade of Baku city studied at the Ural Polytechnic Institute with a degree in architecture, in 1970 he graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Music, Theater and Cinematography. Since 1977, F. Volosenkov has been working in the theater, where he designed about fifty projects in Russia and abroad (the Moscow Art Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, the Maly Opera and Ballet Theater in St. Petersburg, etc.). The artist’s works are represented in the largest museum collections in Moscow, St. Petersburg, many foreign museums, and in private collections.

Natalia Tsekhomskaya is a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art Bessmertnykh, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the Union of Photographers of Russia.

She graduated from art school at the College. Mukhina, studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute with a degree in experimental physics, in 1972 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, in 1978 - a photojournalism course of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. 54 personal exhibitions of the artist were held in Russia and abroad. She is a participant of numerous group exhibitions in Russia and all over the world, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, International Contemporary Art Fairs. The author’s works are presented in Russian and foreign museums and private collections.

Alexey Yarygin is a member of the International Creative Union of Artists, Writers and Musicians (Soyuz I), a member of the Association of Artists of Strasbourg (Association du Corbeau), a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Born in 1969. Graduated from the Faculty of Geology of the Leningrad State University, the workshop of Felix Volosenkov of the St. Petersburg Academy of Modern Art. 56 of his personal exhibitions were held in Russia and many countries of the world. Participant of numerous group exhibitions in Russia and abroad, international biennale of contemporary art, international fairs of contemporary art. The works are presented in the collections of Russian and foreign museums, private collections.