Exhibition Lyudmila Kiseleva "How Young We Were" Automatic translate

October 1 at 15:00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 104, exhibition hall) will open the exhibition of Lyudmila Kiseleva "How young we were." Portrait, landscape, still life - unknown works of the 1960s.

Lyudmila Georgievna Kiseleva (born 1942) - artist, journalist, public figure. Honorary citizen of Borovsk, holder of the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class, laureate of the international prize "Profession - Life", member of the Union of Artists of Russia, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.

L. Kiseleva lives and works in Borovsk. Bedridden by a serious illness, she was able to overcome, by the power of her spirit, the destiny of loneliness and oblivion, which she seemed destined for. In 1965, L. Kiseleva graduated from the correspondence university of fine arts, the faculty of painting and drawing. From this moment she is a participant in city and regional exhibitions. To date, she has held more than 10 solo exhibitions. Her works were exhibited at Moscow State University, Pravda Publishing House, Shchukin Theater School, USSR Council of Ministers (Moscow).

The main topics of the artist’s work are nature and people, feelings and relationships. But the most important and reverently personal topic for her is the beautiful world of dreams and dreams, the world of dreams and mirages. She embodies her ideas on paper in an exciting, reverent and always very expressive way. Each new work is a personal revelation, it is the poetics of the soul and the strength of character, sincerely and sensitively embodied in the running and interweaving of lines and strokes.

At this exhibition, about 60 works are presented, mainly watercolor works, which have been carefully stored for many years in the State Archives of the Kaluga Region. They were created during the study of Lyudmila at the Correspondence People’s University of Arts (ZNUI).

All of Lyudmila’s early works were done from nature, and although it seems that the figures of the sitters are monotonous and recognizable, each painting has its own mood, each one has a special attitude to the sitter. It is not surprising, because relatives, friends, neighbors, with whom Lyudmila Kiseleva is connected in life, posed for her. Many years have passed, and today people captured in the paintings of the young artist can see themselves young and meet their past at this exhibition.

Without exaggerating the artistic merits of Kiseleva’s early works, it can rightly be said that these works have what was so vividly manifested in her schedule: creative energy and kindness.

Forever in her paintings will remain the faces and objects of a bygone time, of that former life: the old house on Moskovskaya Street, now Communist, where Lyudmila lived for many years, things that now you will not find in everyday life - cast-iron irons on charcoals, tabletop kerosene lamps, pots, krynki. All this accompanied the lives of people who have already become history. The signs of that time were Komsomol meetings, disputes, compulsory school clothes, reading books that are now so rare in the hands of young people, listening to a radio in a friendly company, which was then a miracle. And if a radiol appeared in the house, on which it was also possible to turn records, the owner was considered lucky. And this is a thing of the past, but remained in the hearts of the living, as the joy of that time.

The exhibition runs until October 13th.