Solo Show of Works by the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Albina Akritas at the Russian Academy of Arts
Exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of Arts
21 Prechistenka street, Moscow
The Russian Academy of Arts presents a major retrospective of over 150 works by the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor Albina Akritas.
The work by Albina Akritas is internationally recognized and well known in Russia. She is a graduate of I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where she majored in painting under such masters as V.M. Oreshnikov, A.A. Mylnikov, B. S. Ugarov. Her canvases and graphic series – portraits, landscapes, still lifes, compositions are distinguished by a high professional culture, rare plastic vision, rich and complicated color scheme bearing the main semantic and emotional load. Her works are extremely poetic, exquisite and associative. Albina Akritas is in constant creative search, experimenting with different materials, techniques – oil painting, tempera, water color, collage, mixed media, engraving. Of special interest are her works dedicated to Greece, which history and nature have been a source of her inspiration for many years, as well as her cycle of works devoted to Alexander Pushkin including “The Stone Guest”, “The Queen of Spades” and others.
Albina Akritas is an author of the pictorial interpretation of one of the romantic legends of ancient world “The History of Psyche” – monumental cycle of seven big panels decorating the White Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts. At the beginning of the 20th century the canvases for this hall on the same topic were created by Maurice Denis.
A multisided personality Albina Akritas is a member of the Writers’ Union of Russia, she is an author of five books of poems, a member of the International Academy of Culture and Art, member of the Russia and Greece Creative Union of Artists. She is a holder of numerous prizes including the Prize of the Government of Moscow and the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Works by Albina Akritas are in collections of major Russian museums: the State Tretyakov Gallery, A. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, State Russian Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and in art galleries abroad: of E. Rosenfeld (Paris, France); M. Sheremetieva (Boston, U.S.A); S. Davidson (Seattle, U.S.A); O. Heinz (Vienna, Austria), Yogo Riota (Kioto, Japan), as well as in private collections in Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, South Korea.
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