"Oncoming current" Automatic translate

If the city of Rybinsk needs to be described in a nutshell, then these will be the words "city on the Volga". Stretching almost 30 kilometers in length, the city clung to the great Russian river, which had long provided it with work and means of subsistence. And also - Rybinsk from the Volga looks surprisingly beautiful.

Maybe that’s why there are so many artists in Rybinsk? There may be even more of them, good and different, in this merchant-technical city than those who truly appreciate fine arts. VOLGOART - from now on the name of the art projects of a group of Rybinsk masters - members of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Even if Volga is not directly visible in their works, then it will still exist as an inherent fact that can be accepted, which can even be fought, but which cannot be ignored. For it is in their artistic language, in their mood, which, however, is as volatile as the mood of the Volga: calm, majestic, gloomy, stormy, covered with winter snows and blooming duckweed in the sultry summer.

The Volgoart project will be called “Oncoming Current”. This exhibition provides an opportunity to look at the seething art of a provincial city from the side. Moreover, the angle of view of each of the artists of this group will really be his own. Own. Individualized. Comprehending the secrets of crafts in different cities (although it usually began with the Rybinsk Children’s Art School), often having completely different life experiences, working in different genres and different techniques - they make up their small art Universe, located in the city on the Volga and its surroundings. With the numerical predominance of painters, there are masters of both applied art and art photography, and many organically combine these skills.

The main thing that unites them, in addition to the “environment” itself, is professionalism, the established artistic language and the desire to create, sharing and exchanging their perceptions of the world.