The exhibition of Mikhail Shemyakin in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts Automatic translate

December 17 at 16:00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts will open the exhibition "Two Fates. Mikhail Shemyakin. Illustrations to the poems and songs of Vladimir Vysotsky ”from the Foundation of the artist Mikhail Shemyakin.

The exhibition acquaints the general public with the result of many years of work by Mikhail Shemyakin, according to him, "a kind of graphic art monument to Vladimir Vysotsky and his work." The viewer is given the opportunity to see the artist’s embodied plan, a graphic and graphic portrait of a friend, poet and citizen Vladimir Vysotsky created by him. The artist created 42 sheets according to the number of years the poet lived. Shemyakin distributed illustrations for Vladimir Vysotsky’s songs by themes: Fate, Alcohol, Wolf Hunting, Psychiatric Hospital, Flowers of Evil, Civil War, Great Patriotic War, Russia. Each illustration is accompanied by comments by the artist and partly retells the lengthy conversations that Mikhail Shemyakin conducted with his friend Vladimir Vysotsky.

During his rare visits to France, Vladimir Vysotsky often met with Mikhail Shemyakin. Impressed by the seen series of works “The Womb of Paris”, as well as from the stories of Mikhail Shemyakin about these amazing people, the poet wrote the poem “Stewed Bears” in one night. The exhibition also features photographs of friends who were taken by the famous French photographer Patrick Bernard in the artist’s Paris studio in 1976.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Shemyakin (born May 4, 1943, Moscow) is a Russian artist and sculptor who most vividly represents Russian art in the West. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, People’s Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria, People’s Artist of the Republic of Adygea, Honorary Doctor of the University of San Francisco. He is multifaceted, metaphysical and deeply talented. On the channel "Culture" they shot the cycle "The Imaginary Museum of Mikhail Shemyakin." A full-length animated film "Hoffmanniad" was created at Soyuzmultfilm based on the works of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. As a production designer, Mikhail Shemyakin collaborates with the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and the State Opera and Ballet Theater in Sofia. He is the founder of a charity foundation. His paintings are stored in the collections of the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. Its monuments honor St. Petersburg, Moscow, Venice, New York and San Francisco.

The works exhibited at the exhibition introduce Kaluga residents and visitors to the verbal and graphic story of Mikhail Shemyakin about Vladimir Vysotsky, about the era and about himself at the crossroads of time and culture.

The exposition of the exhibition at the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts, formed by giclee and photographs, is a collection owned by the "Fund of the Artist Mikhail Shemyakin."

For visitors, the exhibition will run from December 18, 2014 to March 01, 2015.

Museum opening hours: daily from 10:00 to 18:00, except Mondays, on Thursdays from 11:00 to 19:00.

Address: Kaluga, st. Lenin, 104, tel. For information: 56-28-30.