Exhibition "Baikal residents" Automatic translate

March 14 at 16.00 in the Gallery of Siberian Art (St. Karl Marx, 23) opens the exhibition "Baikal residents." The thematic exposition is part of the large exhibition project “The Sacred Sea of ​​Siberia”, implemented by the Irkutsk Art Museum in conjunction with the Irkutsk Regional Branch of the Union of Artists of Russia. The main genre of the small exhibition was a portrait - in the museum you can see the works of outstanding Siberian masters who created their works in different years in Irkutsk.

Among the names presented at the exhibition are the best representatives of the Irkutsk school of painting from the museum’s collection. Arkady Guterson, Gleb Bogdanov, Yevtey Simonov, Vladimir Tetenkin, Anatoly Kostovsky, Yuri Mitkin, Nikolai Zhitkov, Galina Novikova. According to art critics, the works of artists created in the 60-80s of the last century reflected the leitmotif of socialist realism, according to which the worker becomes the protagonist of the work. In other paintings, the ratio of landscape elements and images of heroes reflects harmony with nature or resistance, overcoming the elements. In some works, portraits of Siberians develop into images of fate.

The objectives of the exhibition, as well as the entire project “The Sacred Sea of ​​Siberia”, include not only the promotion of the original creativity of the artists of the region, but also the study of the stages of development of contemporary art.

The exhibition will open on March 14 at 16.00 in the Gallery of Siberian Art (K. Marx St., 23) and will run until June 9. Entrance to the opening is free.