«... Whose hand is subject to the mind»
ARTinvestment.RU   17 марта 2009

This evening at the State Tretyakov Gallery opens exhibition of carved icons work Inessa and Rashid Azbuhanovyh

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the State Tretyakov Gallery exhibition represent Inessa and Rashid Azbuhanovyh «... Whose hand is subject to the mind». Vernissage will be held today, 17 March at 17.00 in the exhibition hall in Tolmachev (Moscow Tolmachevsky пер., 6). The exhibition is open from 18 March to 5 April.

Artists Inessa and Rashid Azbuhanovy more than 20 years of dedicated revive the ancient art of carved icons. In his works, they are guided as to the few surviving old Russian image in the tree, and in the Byzantine designs.

History of carved icons in Russia has undergone many vicissitudes. The tradition came from Byzantium to the first pilgrims to the Holy Land, which brought home the miniature icons, vytochennye in the mother-of-pearl or ivory. Another source that is available only elected masters - ambassadorial gifts deposited in the Great and the imperial treasury. In northern latitudes, as in most Western European countries, the image essentially carved out of wood. However, in different epochs, for example, in the XVI century, in Russia witnessed disputes whether «Truly Orthodox» these icons, especially the image of a large size has, in particular the decree of Peter I in 1722, carved icons prohibited.

Creating an icon in the technique of relief, as well as similar carved iconostasis, other mnogochastnye songs for church interiors, Azbuhanovy work at the intersection of the Christian tradition carved sculptures and Russian iconography. The creative duo Alumni Office Abramtsevo sculptural art and industrial schools came in 1986, their first joint composition - «St. George the Victorious »(in the present exhibition, this story is presented in five diverse variants). Another of their famous theme associated with the Virgin, in which a number of artists in the first place put iconographic motif «tender emotion».

important creative impulse Azbuhanovy were in the late 1980's through the process of rebirth in Russia of churches and monasteries. In 1988, for the Savior-Transfiguration church in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), they created the first iconostasis.

In addition to the icons and church furnishings, they perform secular songs, preferring to historical subjects. Thus, the cycle of reliefs to the 850 anniversary of Moscow «Sovereign hunting» dedicated to Yuri Dolgoruky.

In the case of exhibitions Azbuhanovyh works were exhibited in museums and exhibition halls of Moscow and Moscow region, in several cities in Russia, starting from Dmitrov, where the master (Museum-Reserve «Dmitrov Kremlin», 1989). The most important solo exhibitions were in the Moscow Kremlin Museums (2000), Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art of Andrei Rublev (Moscow, 2004), Lateranskom Palace and the Vatican (Rome, 2004), the State Museum of the History of Religion (St. Petersburg, 2005) .

Named a string of Buonarotti sonnet Michelangelo exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery has more than 70 works created in 1993-2009 years. First of all, it is incorporated in the chapter «The line of light» polychromatic and monochrome image and other works of the Church of plastics collections and churches in Moscow, from the sponsors and private collections. The space of the exhibition hall in Tolmachev allowed to show the complex process of the iconostasis, which is for the Savior Vlahernskogo monastery village. Dedenevo Dmitrov district. Around 30 graphic designs to cut the songs included in another section of the exhibition, giving the viewer in «sculptors workshop», - «Profiling in the form of plate with the smell of tar».

Source: mkrf.ru , tretyakovgallery.ru