Parallels and Meridians: Exhibition of Works by Tatyana Ryzhova, Victor Lisitsky and Andrey Volkov in Tsereteli Art Gallery
Tsereteli Art Gallery presents three artists whose works are united by the theme of Russian province. This joint project of Tatyana Ryzhova, Victor Lisitsky and Andrey Volkov includes over 100 paintings and 40 sculptures and gives an insight into the country’s life more expressively and convincingly than their solo shows.
The three masters are well-known to Russian public. Their works have been exhibited in Moscow and other cities, some of their works are in museum collections. Besides their respect to labor and national traditions they have a deep Christian faith: religious motifs can be seen in many of their works.
Tatyana Ryzhova was born in Serpukhov. She has graduated from M. Kalinin Moscow Art College and worked in monumental painting for many years. Her easel works are in collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, A. Radischev Saratov Museum of Fine Arts, art museums in Tula, Serpukhov, Richmond (U.S.A), as well as in private collections. She has been much influenced by works of Henry Matisse, Mikhail Larionov, Natalya Goncharova, Marc Chagall. The strong creative source for her paintings is Russian folk art and Russian province. Alongside her lyrical landscapes, works full of calm, clear beauty and “musical moods” on display are also pictures from the artist’s recent Gospel Cycle.
Her husband Victor Lisitsky (b. in 1939) belongs to “naïve” artists. He is a famous gymnast whose name bears one of the most complicated gymnastic elements. He is a fivefold Silver Medal Winner of the Olympic Games, sevenfold Champion of Europe, fifteenfold Champion of the Soviet Union. After his successful career as a gymnast, Victor Lisitsky took big interest in painting and in 2008 became a Member of the Moscow Union of Artists. Since 2001 he has been a frequent participant in group exhibitions, his solo shows were held in Moscow and Polenovo Museum-Estate.
Andrey Volkov was born in Moscow in 1944. In 1970 he graduated from S. Stroganov Moscow Institute of Industrial and Applied Arts where he majored in producing artworks of metal. He worked as a medalist. Since 1975 Andrey Volkov has been a Member of the USSR Union of Artists. His solo shows were exhibited in Moscow, Podolsk, Serpukhov, Kaluga, Tarusa and many other cities.
Now, he works as a sculptor and is known as a master of a rare for the round sculpture genre of landscape. Andrey Volkov creates his metal compositions using iron and a welding device. His metal installations with mobile figures involve a viewer into the life of his characters who are mostly ordinary people portrayed by the artist with love and good humor.
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