Today in the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition opens largest national sculptor of the second half of XX century, the representative of the famous artistic dynasty Julian Mitrofanovich Rukavishnikova

Today, January 26, the Tretyakov Gallery opened an exhibition of the largest national sculptor of the second half of XX century, the representative of the famous artistic dynasty Julian Mitrofanovich Rukavishnikova (1922-2000). He belongs to the constellation of artists who have played a crucial role in the renewal of Soviet art in the 1960's.

acknowledged master, author of dozens of monumental ensembles, monuments, heavy machine tracks and numerous portraits, one of the main leniniany creators of sculpture, from the mid 1970's surprise for his colleagues and admirers, he began to radically change the content and focus of their work.

Exhibition "The evolution and transformation" in the Tretyakov Gallery shows works created by the author in the last decades of his life. In this period of his creative imagination is more nature - plants and animals, reptiles and insects, as well as the world of living creatures, invisible to the naked eye, but no less real. He is immersed in their environment not as a scholar-naturalist or animal artist.

aware perfection and given innumerable variety of forms of life, including protozoa, Julian Rukavishnikov creates a microcosm. Here is dominated by the harmony of the primary development of life, indivisibility of peace in the lowest and highest of its form, the identity of the infinitely small and infinitely great.

Julian Rukavishnikov always been a master of realistic sculpture. But the works from the series "The evolution and transformation", whose shape follows the real natural phenomena are never exact copies of these phenomena.

Contemplating nature, the sculptor treats her as a source that gives pulses of creative imagination, as a basis for constructing capacious brought to the sign of the plastic form. The world is full of images of Julian Rukavishnikova metamorphosis, causing a continuous stream of associations. Conjured fantasy artist, he is valuable and plastically convincing.

significant role in this played by a virtuoso mastery of the material. To create an image the artist uses the expressive possibilities of bronze, steel, ferrous metal and optical glass, marble and wood. Complements the idea of 8 major works of masters graphic sheets, made in color.

exhibition includes more than 50 sculptural works from the collection of the artist's family.

Exhibition open to the public from 27 January to 21 February at: Lavroushinsky per., 12, Corps of Engineers, 2 floor.

Source: tretyakovgallery.ru