The Russian Academy Of Arts

The retrospective features sculptural portraits and compositions, photographs of monuments designed by the People’s Artist of Russia, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Grigory Yastrebenetski as well as graphic works by Alexander Yastrebenetski.

Grigory D. Yastrebenetski is a celebrated St. Petersburg sculptor. The exhibition has been timed to his 85th anniversary. Grigory Yastrebenetski was born on October 29, 1923 in Baku. During the first days of the Great Patriotic War he was recruited to serve in the Army and directed to the Leningrad front, survived all the horrors of the siege of Leningrad. In 1951 he graduated from I. Repin State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St. Petersburg.

Grigory Yastrebenetski has created over 30 monumental works that found their home in Russia and other countries. Among them are monuments to literary scholar Dmitri Likhachev, Polish poet Adam Mitskevich in St. Petersburg, composer Anton Rubenstein in Peterhof and others.

Remarkable are his expressive sculptural images of prominent figures of literature, science and culture, such as of writer Daniil Granin, German poet Heinrich Heine, stage directors Igor Vladimirov and Nikolai Akimov,  actor Cyril Lavrov, conductor Yuri Temirkanov.

Of special significance for the sculptor is a war topic. He has designed memorials: “Nameless Height” at Ivanovsky approaches; in the “Oreshek” fortress near Shlusselburg,  to victims of concentration camps in Hamburg, Germany and many others.

Alexander G. Yastrebenetski graduated from I. Repin State Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1980 where he majored in graphic art. In 1989 he became a scholarship holder of  “Glasgow Print Studio”. Since 1988, the artist has been living and working in Moscow. He is a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, chief artist of “The Capital and Mansion” architecture bureau.

The exposition includes his recent graphic works dedicated to St. Petersburg  and  executed in the technique of serigraphy, as well as his cycles entitled Archaeology and Four Elements.

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