Exhibition Oleg Leonov "SEARCH" Automatic translate

On September 17, the “SEARCH” exhibition opens in the Nagornaya gallery, which will present a retrospective of the artist’s creative searches and methods, as well as his view of the purpose of man in this world in the context of contemporary realistic art.

You ask why “SEARCH”? Oleg Leonov is an artist-philosopher. The exhibition is a kind of creative report of the artist, primarily in front of the audience, and then in front of him. The artist enables the viewer to experience important moments of his life and work with him.

Oleg Leonov lives in Moscow. But he belongs to Russia, Shukshin and Rasputin, with his heart and soul, with all his creativity, where there is no advertising, television buffoonery, where faith is revived and people earn their daily bread in daily hard work. It is to such people - “salts of the earth” - that his paintings “Neighbor”, “Mikhalych”, “Nikolai”, “Grandma Galya”, “Starosta” are dedicated to. Over time, the creative aspect of the artist’s interpretations changed and found his new conceptual expression in a series of paintings and graphic works.

“The exhibition takes on some responsibility to stop the viewer’s gaze, pause in this busy world and look at oneself from the side. As always, someone may disagree with this, someone will have the same views, and someone may be completely indifferent. The task of the work of art is to enable the viewer to learn to stop the moment on the path to excellence… ” Oleg Leonov.

Oleg Leonov - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, member of the Moscow Union of Artists, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Born in 1959 in Tatarstan. He graduated from Moscow State Institute. Surikov in 1990 (workshop of the portrait of I.S. Glazunov). Since 1988, a participant in All-Union, All-Russian and foreign exhibitions. Since 1992 he has been working in the Studio of Artists named after V.V. Vereshchagin Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. She is currently her leader. Laureate of the State Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

The artist’s works are in the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, in Hamburg and in the State Museum of N.V. Gogol in Moscow, museums of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, as well as in private galleries and collections in the USA, Italy, Spain, Japan.

Portrait of the historian A. Myasnikov, oil on canvas, 2016, 40x70

May meeting, oil on canvas, 2014, 24x27

Spring is coming, oil on canvas, 2013, 40x40

Hurray, oil on canvas, 2015, 140х140