Exhibition Within the Framework of Days of Culture of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Moscow
Organized by the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, the exhibition in Tsereteli Art Gallery features works by Makharbek Tuganov (1881-1952) and Soslanbek Edziev (1865-1953). The show is being held within the framework of Days of Culture of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Moscow.
The Republican Art Museum in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, bears the name of Makharbek Tuganov, one of the founders of the Ossetian fine arts. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and later continued his professional education in the private school of Anton Ashbe (1862-1905) in Munich. Tuganov has created a vast number of portraits executed in various media, theme canvases, illustrations for works of classics of the national literature. The artist’s works are notable for his deep connection with the life of the Ossetians, his homeland traditions and original culture.
In the 1920s – 1930s there appeared a pleiad of talented artists among which was Soslanbek Edziev – a primitive sculptor, who was a forerunner of the modern Ossetian easel and monumental sculpture. His works are a distinctive synthesis of architecture and sculpture. In his compositions of stone and wood the master has brilliantly revealed the expressive possibilities of the material creating images of a generalized form.
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