The Russian Academy Of Arts

Dates: July 26 - August 20, 2023

Venue: Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts, Tsereteli Art Gallery (19 Prechistenka street, Moscow)

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition “Noah’s Ark” of the Fifth All-Russian Youth Forum of Creative Workshops “Art – Studio XXI”. The project has been organized by the Creative Artists’ Union of Russia and the Volga Region Department of the Russian Academy of Arts under the auspices of the Russian Ministry of Culture as part of the Year of the Teacher and Mentor. It offers young artists a unique opportunity to try themselves in the collective work under the supervision of recognized masters of fine arts.  On display are more than 120 artworks including painting, graphics, sculpture, installations and digital art.

For the project implementation this year seven youth creative workshops from various regions of Russia have been set up:

“Sailing in the Symbolic Plane” (Saratov)  - headed by Mikhail Gavryushov, curator, designer, PhD in Engineering, Member of the Creative Artists’  Union of Russia, Winner of K.S. Petrov-Vodkin Prize,  Laureate of the theatrical “Golden  Harlequin” Prize;

“Perm  Extinction” (Perm) – headed by Alexander Grekov, Member of the Creative Artists’ Union of Russia, Holder  of the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, Laureate of N. Feshin Prize;

“Noah’s Ark. The Search  for Truth”  (Stavropol) – headed by Oleg Kalaitanov,  Chair of the “Wheel” Creative Artists’ Union of the South of Russia, Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Member of the Artists’ Union of Russia, Winner of I. Repin Prize, Holder of the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts;

“With Myself” (Moscow) – headed  by Olga Krasutskaya, Member of the Artists’ Union of Russia, Holder of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, Winner of E. Drobitsky Prize:

“The Shore” (Moscow) – headed by Oleg Leonov,  Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of Russia, Member of the Creative Artists’ Union  of Russia, Head of V.Vereschagin Studio under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia,  Winner of I. Repin Prize:

The Suffering from the Seasickness on the Broken Ark Sailing through Endless  Rains of the New Babylonian  Ocean (Ufa) – headed by Denis Mishin, Member of the Creative Artists’ Union of Russia, Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, Head of the “Stolitsa” Design Studio, Co-organizer of the Art Symposium “Artheart”;

“The Frontier” (Moscow) – headed by Sergey Ossovsky, Academician and Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, Honored Art Worker of Russia, Head of the Workshop of V. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute.

The theme common for all the workshops is “Noah’s Ark” and each of the exhibition participants shall present his own variation of its implementation. According to the words of the Project Manager Konstantin Khudyakov  - President of the Creative Artists’ Union of Russia, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Academician and Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, Head of the Volga Region Department of the Russian Academy of Arts, the classical key philosophical idea of Noah’s Ark is a survival in Apocalypse. “The Apocalypse in this case can be considered not simply as a Biblical flood and threat of physical destruction of a person, but as the total crisis of moral, spiritual and human values, - notes Khudyakov. “This is an idea of a global choice for everybody: which values of today shall we preserve for the future of  mankind?’

On July 25, 2023 at 15.30 there will be a panel discussion relating to the Project agenda. 

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