Exhibition of Nikas Safronov "The Secret of Light" 12+ Automatic translate

October 16 14:00 One of the most striking cultural events will take place at the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (103 Lenina St., first floor) - the opening of the personal exhibition "The Mystery of Light" by Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor Nikas Safronov. 12+

The painter’s works will be presented both in classical performance - on canvases, and using ultra-modern multimedia technologies.

Multimedia projections on the walls will take viewers into the diverse, colorful and unique world of the artist Nikas Safronov. Seamless projection will create the illusion of a new change in the form of digital decor. The exhibition will show works from his own direction Dream Vision, made in the spirit of classical painting, and actively using imagination, intuition, subconsciousness and unconscious sensations.

The exposition is conceived in such a way that it has no beginning or end. Viewers will become participants in a continuous whirlpool of pictures, thoughts and images. The exhibition introduces the various periods of the master’s work. More than 70 paintings and graphic works, created between the late 1990s and 2019, are presented. These are works of various genres: landscapes, still lifes, portraits, subject surrealistic compositions, among which canvases in the unique author’s style Dreаm vision.

Nikas can be called one of the most famous Russian painters of our time. According to the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Research "Levada Center" Nikas Safronov ranks first in the list of the best contemporary artists in Russia.

The main part of N. Safronov’s works is in private collections and museums in many countries of the world. Among the admirers of the artist’s work are Alla Pugacheva, Sophia Loren, Alain Delon, Pierre Cardin, Diana Ross, Montserrat Caballe, Madonna, Nikita Mikhalkov, Steven Spielberg, Tina Turner, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Pierre Richard, Richard Gere, Elizabeth Taylor and many others.

Nikolay (Nikas) Stepanovich SAFRONOV

1956, April 8 - was born in Ulyanovsk.

1971 - 1972 - studied at the Odessa Naval School.

1973 - 1975 - studied painting at the Grekov Art School in Rostov-on-Don.

1978 - 1982 - studied in Vilnius at the State Art Institute of the Lithuanian SSR (now the Academy of Arts) at the Faculty of Design.

Since 1978 he has been an active participant in art exhibitions.

Since 1983 he has been living and working in Moscow. He was the art director, and then the chief artist of the Russian edition of the "Penthouse" magazine, was a consultant and designer of the scientific magazine "Aura-Zet", the magazines "Diplomat" and "World of Stars".

From 1995 and over the next 10 years, personal exhibitions of Nikas Safronov were held in many cities of the world - Istanbul (Turkish Republic), Academy of Arts in Moscow (Russian Federation), Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk (Republic of Belarus), Bergamo (Italian Republic), Toronto (Canada), Rome (Italian Republic), Zurich (Swiss Confederation), New York (United States of America), Sochi (Russian Federation), Riga (Republic of Latvia), St. Petersburg (Russian Federation), etc.

Since 2010, Nikas Safronov’s exhibition activity has begun to increase significantly. In 2008–2011, an average of 10 exhibitions per year were held, and from 2012 to the present time, on average, more than 20 Nikas Safronov exhibitions are held in different cities every year.

First of all, exhibitions are held in large cities of Russia and the CIS (Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan). In 2008, an exhibition was held in Germany, in 2016 - in Austria, in 2017 - in Bahrain.

In Moscow, Nikas Safronov’s exhibitions were held in the Manege hall (2008), the State Historical Museum (2015), and the V. A. Tropinin Museum (2018). In St. Petersburg - in the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts (2014, 2018), in St. Isaac’s Cathedral (2015), in the exhibition complex "Russia is my history" (2018).

State awards and titles:

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2013) - for services in the field of fine arts;

People’s Artist of the Republic of Dagestan (2017).

Public titles:

Professor of Ulyanovsk State University (UlSU).

Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (2012).

Honorary Doctor of Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts.

Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences RANS.

Honorary Citizen of Ulyanovsk (1998).

Honorary Citizen of Baku

The exhibition runs until November 15, 2020.