Picturesque Russia –2018 Automatic translate

Since October 11, 2018, the Tenishevs Cultural and Exhibition Center has been inviting you to the grand opening of the Picturesque Russia Interregional Traveling Exhibition, the presentation of an illustrated catalog edition, and also to a creative meeting with the project curators.

The project was organized by the Wizart Foundation, the Creative Union of Russian Artists and the Russian Academy of Arts with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, as well as with the participation of the Smolensk Region Department of Culture and Tourism, Smolensk State Museum-Reserve, Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow State Art and Industrial Academy named after S. G. Stroganova.

“Picturesque Russia” is an educational research project aimed at the study and popularization of contemporary Russian painting, carried out since 2016. The selection of project participants and their works was carried out by an expert commission of highly professional artists, art historians, art critics, and contemporary art specialists from the second half of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. The permanent leader of the whole project is the First Vice-President of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Evgeny Romashko.

In 2018, Smolensk is hosting the project exhibition for the first time. These are 37 authors from six cities of Russia. The exposition includes paintings that reflect the trends of Russian fine art over 30 years of its development: from 1989 to 2018. The concept of the exhibition is built according to six curatorial points of view: Leonid Bazhanov, Tatyana Kochemasova, Alexander Rozhin, Sergey Gavrilyachenko, Anna Florkovskaya, Vera Lagutenkova. Each of the curators formed a group of artists, who, in their opinion, are the most prominent representatives of various areas of modern easel realistic painting. In a single art space presents easel paintings by experienced artists of the older generation and the energetic work of young authors. These are the works of 12 national and 9 honored artists of Russia, members of the Russian Academy of Arts (14 - academicians of the Russian Academy of Arts, five - corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Arts), teachers of leading Russian art schools in Moscow and St. Petersburg and their former students, talented young artists: Pavel Nikonov, Zurab Tsereteli, Natalia Nesterova, Evgeny Romashko, Alexei Sukhovetsky, Anatoly Lyubavin, Viktor Glukhov, Ivan Korshunov, Daria Antonova, Konstantin Lupaev and many others.

The exhibition runs until October 31, 2018.

The project of 2018 is exhibited in the art museums of Stavropol and Smolensk, will finish its work in Moscow, in the Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists on the Kuznetsk bridge.

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