Today in the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art opens the exhibition of self-portraits from the collection of Alexander Dmitrenko

Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, from October 7, 2011

Today at 15.00 Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental art (street, Pushkinskaya 9) will host an exhibition of self-portraits of artists in Odessa, "I am" from the collection of Alexander Dmitrenko.

attention of the viewer will be a collection of self-portraits of artists in Odessa, collected by passion, curiosity and interest of collectors, an honorary member of the Odessa regional organization NSHU Alexander Dmitrenko. About two years ago for the sake of familiarity with the artists and their works, Alexander began to collect self-portraits, not knowing that this hobby since his capture and grow in scale, in fact, unique for a city project.

In this collection of self-portraits 317, 293 made by the authors in different styles and directions, different techniques and materials. Close to traditional painting and graphics can be seen self-portrait YD Barzashvili created wood carvings, terracotta bust by sculptor A. Knyazika, plaster bust AP Tokarev, bas NS Khudoley, painting on porcelain N. L. Marinenko and PE Shtivelman, self-portrait in the form of dolls, NV Zagoriy.

BARZASHVILI YD Self-Portrait. 1990 Wood, carving. 26 x 22

LELECHENKO EN Self-portrait with a pipe. 2011 Marble, earthenware. Height 103

ZAGORA NS Self-Portrait. 2011 Doll. Height 45 < /td>

Khudoley NS Self-portrait. 2011 bas-relief, a composite. 30 x 27

KNYAZIK AV Self-Portrait. 2011 Terracotta. 27 x 10 x 13

collector wanted to show the slice of artistic life in Odessa in the original genre such as portrait, and artists belonging to Odessa not limited to the birthplace or training, long-term stay in the city or membership in the Odessa regional organization of the Union of Artists, and later Ukraine. The main criterion for selection of works in the collection - a "self-portrait" and a link to our city.

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PAVLYUK GN Self-portrait. 1948-1949

KUCHER KUTSAN-VA Self Paper, sanguine

TOKAREV AP Self-portrait. 1951 Oil on canvas. 75 x 48

MATSKEVICH V. Self-portrait. 1970 Oil on canvas. 48 x 48

The collection features the works of authors, consisting of ( A. Gavdzinsky , VA-Kucher Kutsan) and does not consist (GP Vostrov, SM Szczepanski) in the Artists' Union, union members marine painters (KB Zaritsky, A. Mirzoev) and advertisers (VA Redin, D. Karzhavin), artists, theater (MV Kordonskii, NM Vylkun), cinema (Yu K. Bogatyrenko, P. Gorobets) and television (VV Rastorguev, LI Sokolov), representatives of the underground (DE Nuzhin, V. Zabolotny) and contemporary art (OO Lannik , AA Babchinsky), architects (A. Eremenko, EP Fersanov), teachers of art institutions of the city (LD Vandenko, EP Kuchinskaya), sculptors (AP Tokarev, E . Lelechenko AN). This variety of artists and belonging to different currents and fields is just one of the main objectives of the project.

particularly interesting for Alexander Dmitrenko a search and acquisition of self-portraits of artists in Odessa who immigrated at different times and for different reasons. The search was fascinating in itself: how it was interesting to find an artist abroad, who left 20 years ago, know that there is a self-portrait of the artist, write his biography, often terminated at the date of departure, to find a picture . With the return to Odessa, a self-portrait artists, immigrants and returning the memory of their authors, are often neglected. It EB Ladyzhenskii < /a>, LV Dulfan , M. Sidorova, LE Kaushansky, LI Gorban, IL Gorban, I. Kligman, VP Naumets, VL Strelnikov, VY Shtivelberg, PE Shtivelman. returned to Odessa works from Russia, Germany Israel, the United States.

GAVDZINSKY AS Self-portrait. 1962 Oil on cardboard. 25 x 20

Ladyzhensky EB Self-Portrait. 1981 Pencil on paper. 38 x 28

collection spans almost a hundred years, beginning with the figure Kostandi K., M. woodcuts and painting self-portraits Beetle B. Krihatskogo, created in the early 20s of last century and ending with self-portraits in 2011.

Kostandi KK Self-portrait. 1921 Pencil. 9 x 10

KRIHATSKY VG Self-portrait. 1925 Oil on plywood. 40 x 30

The "self-portrait of Odessa" can be called the most artistic and documentary, because for the compilation of biographies of artists collector had to work in many archives, especially the archive of the company NSHU, OGHU archive them. MBGrekov and Odessa State Academy of Architecture and Building, Department of Art, Odessa National Scientific Library. Maxim Gorky, the personal archives of families, artists, recorded memories of heirs or contemporary artists. Many biographies compiled the first time (AY Asaba, N. Y. Novikov, MV Kordonskii and others), many changes in the already published data about the artists. Thus, we establish the exact place and date of birth of H. Asaba. managed to figure out the spelling of the names of such artists as Peter S. Kohn, and Mendel Lischuk Vigdorov-Leibovich Kordonskii. The result of this work was the publication of a 300-page book-album "Self-portraits of artists in Odessa," published 500 copies.

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Wojciech LY Self-portrait. 2010

with the exhibition "I am" and the edition of the album "Self-portraits of artists in Odessa," the project does not The interest comes to an end ... does not wither, so that new discoveries are waiting!

Source : press-release