Exhibition "House. Sviyazhsky House" Automatic translate

This is the second part of the project “Island. Comprehension ”, the first stage of which -“ Sviyazhskaya ear ”- took place in 2015. The project was implemented at the State Scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation as part of the work of the Ostrov Creative Workshop of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, led by KV Khudyakov, president of TSHR, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, honored artist of the Russian Federation.

The project involves 15 scholarship holders from different cities of Tatarstan (Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Zelenodolsk) - the leading masters of the republic (I. M. Samakayev, E. G. Golubtsov, V. A. Vybornov, A. N. Egorov, I. V. Antonova, L.V. Magina, V.V. Karaseva, M.I. Mingaleev and others) and young painters and graphic artists (R.R. Shaikhutdinova, E.E. Dragunova, A.M. Munirova and others). More than 10 volunteer artists from Kazan, Moscow, and even Italy (R. Janinetti) joined them. The head of the project and the author of the idea is Alexander Artamonov, one of the most creative leaders in the art community of Tatarstan, who heads the graphic section of the TSHR in the RT, the Center for Printed Graphics of the RT, and the informal creative association Grafcom.

Vybornov V.A. Night in Sviyazhsk, 70x70, oil on canvas, 2014

Dragunova E.E., Jacket, 78.5x55, sauce, 2016

Kharitonov P.I., Thawed the sun mound, 42x76cm., Wood, carving, decorative painting, 2016

For project participants, the concept of an island is not limited to a narrow geographical meaning, turning into a symbol of the country, the Motherland, giving the opportunity from a special case, from small concepts that reflect different aspects of the whole — the ear, the house — to extract historical experience, comprehending it through artistic categories, to change their attitude to life.

The house is one of the fundamental and, it would seem, unambiguous categories of our life. Meanwhile, it contains a variety of meanings: home; economy and its way; family hearth; Domov’s house, in which a person rests forever… Having gone headlong into the topic, the project participants, using a variety of materials and techniques, artistic techniques and expressive means, created more than fifty works of painting, original, print and computer graphics, decorative and applied art, spatial compositions. A whole range of visual images reveals the concept of a house in a variety of ways, from direct interpretation to bizarre associations that immerse in history, religion, mythology, and popular beliefs.

Artists revealed the theme of the Sviyazh house as such, creating real "portraits" of old wooden buildings, Sviyazh landscapes that convey not only architectural features, but also the spirit of the island; milestones of the history of Sviyazhsk and its inhabitants were reflected in family portraits. At the same time, they embodied more general, universal concepts for Russian culture, immersing us in the religious layers of the national consciousness, in the element of everyday life, in their own childhood impressions.

The participants sought to stir up consciousness, force themselves and others to reconsider their attitude to the past and present, to include mechanisms of recognition and cognition, activating both their own memory and collective memory…