Solo Exhibition of Works by Valery Evdokimov in the Russian Academy of Arts

Organized to mark the 70th anniversary of the renowned sculptor, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Valery Evdokimov, the exhibition presents a retrospective of his works.

The exposition includes easel sculptures, projects and photographs of his realized monumental works,  graphic works.
 
Valery Evdokimov graduated from V. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute. He is a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia, a frequent participant of Russian and international symposiums on sculpture, a winner of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.  In 1995, the sculptor was awarded the first Prize of the Central Federal District of RF in Literature and Arts. 

The exhibition presents Valery Evdokimov as a master with his distinctive manner based on a classical, academic school. His works combine the experience of the 20th century European art and Old Russian icon painting. Visitors will see sculptures created in various stylistics that organically coexist in his work - in traditional plastic art, postmodernism and non-figurative art, e.g. Mystery (Sweden) and Monument to a Nurse in the Great Patriotic War (Khimki, Moscow Region). The compositional fundamentals of such pieces as Ferapontovo, Dream,  Cathedral, Concert of Svyatoslav Rihter, Ascension and others are his investigations of  plastic objects in the space, created by a form, rhythm, motion,  correlation of different materials with the environment.  His search of harmony  reveals itself  in the transformation of a spatial environment, in the construction of plastic structures. He prefers dynamic structures – spiral, diagonal and horizontal compositions. The ingenuity in the use of materials, their structural properties and  plasticity is observable in all his works. 

In portraits, Valery Evdokimov is keen on images of creative people: artists; novelists; philosophers, musicians. Having achieved almost a documentary  likeness, the master  saturates the sculptural image with psychology showing the spiritual individuality.

The artist draws much from the model. Many of his sculptural sketches and works drawn from life are far beyond ordinary academic studies. Evdokimov has been constantly traveling from the two-dimensional space of a drawing to the three-dimensional space of a sculpture. His graphic works of the last two decades are as dynamic as his sculptures. 

The sculptor’s works are represented in major museums in Russia as well as in private collections in Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany, the United States, South Korea, Sweden, Norway. Valery Evdokimov’s monumental works have found their home in Russia, Sweden and Estonia. 

 






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