Exhibition of Works by Postgraduates of I. Repin Institute Who Upgraded Their Skills in the Sculpture Workshop under the People’s Artist of Russia, Academician Grigory Yastrebenetsky
The exhibition in the Moscow State Academy Art Lyceum features works by young sculptors who after graduation from I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for several years upgraded their skills in the sculpture workshop under the People’s Artist of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Grigory Yastrebenetsky.
On display are more than 50 sculptures various in genre and technique. The highlight is a model of the “Monument to Victims of Fascist Concentration Camps” installed in Krasnoye Selo near St. Petersburg. For this work its author Maria Tretyakova has been awarded a Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. She also shows her works dedicated to Sergey Dyagilev, some of which have been exhibited in Paris.
Yanina Yakulevich presents her project of the equestrian monument for the Island of Sardinia in Italy. It is a complex composition consisting of seven galloping horsemen devoted to the traditional races annually held in one of the Sardinian towns. Now, she is working on this monument in real size.
Visitors will see several bronze horses by Eugene Burkov, who during his training at the workshop has executed a monument to the radio inventor Alexander Popov unveiled in one of St. Petersburg Institutes. The show also includes the sculptor’s works on the Russian heroic epic which he is so much keen on.
Of major interest are sculptural portraits of Auguste Rodin and Henry Matisse, composer Igor Stravinsky and one meter tall figure of Moses by Igor Frolov; “Salvador Dali” composition by Matvey Makushin; female and male nudes by Vasilisa Balashova; animalistic works by Irina Firstova; sculptural portraits by Nickolai Krayukhin and Alexander Murzin.
The exposition also includes works by the first-year students of the sculpture and graphic departments of I. Repin Institute and diploma work by their talented graduates.
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