The Light of Memory: Exhibition of Graphic Works by Sergey Kharlamov in the Moscow Academy Art Lyceum

The exhibition features works by the noted graphic artist, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Kharlamov. Sergey Kharlamov is a Secretary of the Board of Administration of the Artists’ Union of Russia, Chairman of the Moscow Regional Organization of the Artists’ Union of Russia, Professor, winner of Russian and international prizes.

Sergey Kharlamov was born in 1942 in the town of Kashira near Moscow. In 1966 he graduated from S. Stroganov Moscow Arts and Industrial Institute where he majored in decorative and applied art. When a second-year student he took interest in graphic art, worked for newspapers and magazines. Since 1967 Sergey Kharlamov has been a frequent exhibitor in all major art exhibitions in Russia.

He won recognition as a graphic artist by his cycle of illustrations to the novel “Gulliver’s Travels”, for which he was awarded the 1st Prize at the International Exhibition in the Czech Republic. Sergey Kharlamov works in various techniques of easel and book graphics including xylography and linocut. He is an author of illustrations to many books of Russian writers such as “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka” by Nicholas Gogol, “Ode” by Gavriil Derzhavin, “My Bluebells” by Alexei Tolstoi, “Thief” by Leonid Leonov, “Wreath of Sonnets” by Vladimir Soloukhin, poems by Fedor Tyutchev and Sergey Esenin, “Book of Sonnets” by Rasul Gamzatov. Of big interest is his cycle of drawings “The Holy Land” executed in color pencil.

In 1980 Sergey Kharlamov completed his cycle of engravings devoted to the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kulikovo. In 2002 the artist made his debut as a talented writer who told about his time and work in his album “Visible Steps”.

The work of Sergey Kharlamov is represented in the State Tretyakov Gallery, A. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Russian Art in Kiev, as well as in museum and private collections in the United States, Great Britain, the Czech Republic and other countries.




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