In the exhibition hall Ioannovskogo ravelin Peter and Paul Fortress in the commemorative program «For the 100 th anniversary of the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg» Exhibition «Peter and Paul Fortress. Emalernye fantasy »

Among the participants were about 20 artists from all over the enamel Russia: Alexei Talaschuk, Svetlana Ponomarenko, Olga Lysenkova, Anwar Bagautdinov (St. Petersburg), Zurab Tsereteli, Zueva Olga, Tatiana Kiseleva (Moscow), Boris Klochkov (Ekaterinburg), Nikolai Vdovkin (Miniralnye water); Alexander Kareh (Yaroslavl) and others presented their work devoted to the Peter and Paul Fortress. Each of them shows a bright, unique, born of the creative imagination of the master image of the world famous monument.

And this is not the only species of the Peter and Paul Fortress. In many works of artist's mind turned to a figure of an angel on the spire Petropavlovsk Cathedral, Emperor Peter I, or the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, by the clouds or fish swim past the fortress.

All the works exhibited at the exhibition are made in the technique of hot enamel. Enamel - a special blend of glass with metal oxides. In the process of creating artwork on the copper plate special refractory enamel paints sprayed painted. In the future, after application of each layer of paint (about 30 times), the plate is burnt in a furnace at a temperature of 850 ° C. Engineering hot enamel is complex and labor-intensive. The results depend on many factors: the composition of enamels, firing technology, the strength of adhesion of paint layers and the base. In emalernom art is very important master of the practical experience gained, the development and application of their own recipes and secrets. Therefore, each piece is unique enamel artist. As can be seen at the exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress. A common theme, enamels differ not only an original interpretation of artistic images, but the individual author's approach to dealing with this difficult material.

Source: www.spbmuseum.ru