Today, July 24, in the Kaluga Regional Art Museum opens an exhibition of works of glass artist Alexander Ivanovich Fokin

Today, July 24, in the Kaluga Regional Art Museum opens an exhibition of works of glass artist Alexander Ivanovich Fokin.

Kaluga and visitors for the first time an opportunity to see unusual and bewitching the subtle beauty of the masterpieces, and learn many interesting things about the art of engraved glass.

Unique artist's works are in museums St. Petersburg, Moscow, Samara, Penza, Togliatti and Kaliningrad, as well as in private collections in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and America.

Glass - material simultaneously simple and complex. The man knows his more than five thousand years, it has become customary in everyday life, but for the artist, it keeps some inner secrets, never ceased to amaze with new opportunities - not by chance and in the XXI century interest in artistic glass unabated throughout the world.

Engraving - one way of cold working glass, grinding on the surface of the product shallow negative images of a rotating copper matte or abrasive wheel. This is one of the most difficult techniques: the slightest wrong move and - correct drawing on paper, it is impossible! It requires the elegance of craftsmanship drawer, the hardness of the hands and a sense of relief forms of jewelry.

Artist AI Fokine created in glass and portraits, and landscapes. Often drawn to biblical themes. His work combines modern forms with eternal philosophical themes, laconic means - the complexity of content, skill - with a wonderful sense of beauty of the material. His art will make any carefully consider and reflect, admire and endlessly surprising.

exhibition will run until September 5, 2010.

Channel : museum.ru