Arts, April 19 - May 10, 2011

Today, April 19, at 16.00 in halls of the Russian Academy of Arts (Prechistenka, 21) opens a retrospective of famous creative graphics, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Arts Vitaly Volovich. Exhibition "Mysteries Volovich," organized by the Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Sverdlovsk region, Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts.

• Vitaly Volovich The clown catches the butterfly. 1994
  From the series "Circus". Gouache, whitewash. Irbitsky GMII
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Solo exhibition by Vitaly Volovich (genus . 1928), a leading painter of Yekaterinburg, the winner of many national and international competitions books and book illustrations, the owner of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, covers 60 years of creative activity. The exhibition includes about 300 graphic works, reflecting all the cycles of book illustrations and a series of easel works by the master. First shown and a new cycle of etchings "Grotesque».

• Vitaly Volovich Wolf Pack. 1972
  Inspired by J. London. Autolithograph
  Irbitsky GMII
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• Vitaly Volovich Hypocrisy . 1996
  central part of the triptych
  «Medieval Mysteries - 1»
  Gouache tempera. Irbitsky GMII
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Born into a literary family, Vitaly Volovich childhood interest in literature. To book graphics, he turned early in his career, at the end of the Sverdlovsk Art College. Among the first books designed by him in 1950, - a collection of tales Bazhov "Malachite Box" and "Pantry of the sun" Michael Prishvina, which had been praised by the author. But the real fame Volovich brought illustrations of medieval literature: "Lay," "The Story of Tristan and Isolde", the Icelandic sagas, etc. He turned to the artist and the drama of Aeschylus (Oresteia), and Shakespeare ("Othello, Richard III ") and the German classical literature XVIII - XX centuries.

In easel chart wizard allocated cycles" Medieval Mysteries "," Circus, "" Theatre of dummies, "" Jerusalem "," Ekaterinburg. Autobiographical series "My workshop is dedicated to the" eternal "themes and tells us how the real and fictional events on the fate of the artist. Volovich virtuoso possesses the full range of graphic techniques. Individual artist's manner inherent expressiveness, expressive combination of lines and shading, the desire for monumentality, sometimes - to the deliberate theatricality of the action.

• Vitaly Volovich
  Tristan, hitting the dragon. 1972
  Illustration for novel "Tristan und Isolde»
  (chapter III, «The search for golden-haired beauty»)
  autolithograph. Irbitsky GMII
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• Vitaly Volovich Epilogue. Grief. 1987
  series of illustrations to Aeschylus
  Etching, soft varnish. Irbitsky GMII
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the first city where in 1952 Vitaly Volovich exhibited his work was Irbit (Sverdlovsk region). Today Art Museum Irbit stores the most important collection of works by the master. And in 2008 in Yekaterinburg, a sculpture, "The townsfolk. Conversation "- a group portrait of three famous artists of the Urals: Vitaly Volovich, Michael Brusilovsky and Herman Meteleva.

Works Vitaly Volovich included in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin, the Russian Museum, museums and galleries in Yekaterinburg, Saratov, Novosibirsk, Perm and other Russian cities, as well as a number of foreign museums, including the Prague National Gallery, Moravian Gallery (Brno), the Museum of Modern Art (Cologne), the Museum and .- Goethe (Weimar).

Source: press release PAX