Exhibition of animal painter Sergei Stroganov "Messengers of Peace" Automatic translate

For millions of years, nature has created an amazing and many-sided world of animals, honing their perfection and increasing diversity. Their world is older than ours, but they are the same as we are, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering, who together with us fell into the web of modern life, into the web of this rapid time, where, unlike humans, they became the most vulnerable. Some of the Earth has already lost forever, others are at the stage of extinction.

It is not so easy to draw a picture with a pencil. This requires even more time and effort than painting a picture with other visual materials. Stunning technique and detailing, scrupulousness and accurate understanding of the concept allowed to create an amazingly large gallery of unforgettable images and plots, to recreate a special world that destroys the canonized ideas about animals.

Sergey Stroganov creates his drawings on the basis of peace and goodness. That is why his work "Messengers of Peace" is so impressionable, guessed with the works of Pablo Picasso, and unusually touching "Dances of the Loggerhead", "Meeting of the Irbis and Apollo" and "Dreams of the Amur Tigers".

Also noteworthy are the triptych "I don’t see", "I don’t hear", "I won’t tell". It is unlikely that in nature one can find the behavior of animals that fits the titles of these works so accurately, but the artist’s art allows us to take a fresh look at the world around us and at ourselves. It is hardly possible to see in nature the flying tusks of the bush elephant, white rhinoceros or walrus, so precisely intertwined with the works of Salvador Dali, but the reason for the extermination of these animals so naturally noticed by the artist.

In many of his drawings, the eyes of animals are very expressive, which makes the essence of living nature more palpable and brings us closer to self-knowledge. The compositional constructions of Sergei Stroganov’s works are always plot-based, although they are devoid of the external attributes of the living space of this or that animal. Lyricism and drama are always delicately balanced in his works.

The artist is really very close to the world of animals, understands them, feels them, and therefore knows how to convey in his works more than just a copied character. He is characterized by romanticism and emotion, love and respect, admiration and care, which make it possible to very accurately represent the individuality of each character, the ability to display in the smallest detail the character and habits of animals, their weakness, vulnerability, and therefore dependence on us, people.

His work is always the fruit of his own images, his own experiences and his own feelings. They are always with the external, seeming at first glance simplicity of the image, and sometimes naivety, are inspired by a deep philosophical meaning.

He does not feel the need to change the style he has chosen, because the animal world to which all his paintings are dedicated is infinitely diverse in itself, in which one can find endless inspiration and an inexhaustible source of new ideas.

BIOGRAPHY

Animal artist Sergei Stroganov was born on October 23, 1982 in the city of Kirzhach, Vladimir region, where he spent his childhood and youth, already then getting carried away with drawing, attending an art school. He is especially good at pencil and ink work. This marked the beginning of the realization of his creative potential precisely in this direction of art - pencil animal drawing. Over the years, he has been honing his skills and since 2010 he has been happy to start drawing animals with colored pencils.

In 2013, his works won first place at the XIV International Exhibition-Competition of Contemporary Art "Russian Art Week" in the category: "Experimental Graphics. Animalist ". In 2014 he participates in the Art Week in Portugal and in the category “Academic Graphics. Drawing "and takes second place. In 2016, the artist’s works took all the first three places in the Russian Cup for artistic creation "Assembly of Arts" in the "Graphics" competition. In 2017, he won first place in the art project "In the Footsteps of the Red Book". In the same year he became a finalist of the international competition "Golden Turtle".

The works of Sergei Stroganov were awarded by the Russian Academy of Arts.

Since 2015, his personal exhibition "Reflections" has been held in Russian museums with great success, which presents illustrations to the fables of Aesop and La Fontaine.

In 2017, the Messengers of Peace exhibition was presented to the audience in London.

The exhibition will run until December 20.