"Russian Paris Nicholas Dronnikova"
In the exhibition halls of the State Literary Museum opens a personal exhibition of the artist, sculptor, author and publisher of books Dronnikova Nicholas, which is specifically for this exhibition has brought his work in Paris
State Literature Museum, February 28 - March 30
Moscow, Trubnikovsky Lane ., 17
today in the exhibition halls of the State Literary Museum opens a personal exhibition of the artist, sculptor, author and publisher of books Dronnikova Nicholas, which is specifically for this exhibition has brought his work in Paris.
Dronnikov was born on August 2, 1930 in the village of Booths Tula region. In 1957 he graduated from the Moscow Art School in memory of 1905 in 1963 - the Moscow State Art Institute. VI Surikov. In 1968, during a trip to France, met with Mark Z. Mark Chagall . This meeting influenced the decision to leave the Soviet Union. Since 1972 the artist lives and works in Paris.
In his autobiography, N. Dronnikov wrote: "I am - a hermit ... My ideal - artist of the Renaissance. This sculpture, painting figurative and abstract, art books and history of Russia, a portrait gallery ... I figured the movement and the spirit of creativity ... »
probably why a special place among the works of N. Dronnikova take portraits of writers and cultural figures, from nature made them.
The exhibition at the Museum Literary portraits: G. Aigi, V. Aksenov, V. Astafieva, B. Akhmadulina, and . Brodsky, G. Vladimov, Voznesensky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Galich, N. Gorbanevskaya, J. Huberman, Serge Lifar, V. Maximov, Okudzhava, D. Prigov , Sapgir G., A. Sinyavsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Tarkovsky, T. Trastremera, etc.
| Bella Akhmadulina. In 1977 Source: |  NICHOLAS Dronnikov Joseph Brodsky Source: |
In portraits, the exhibition includes paintings and drawings of France landscapes: views of Montmartre from the house of Ivan Turgenev on the streets of Douai, the monastery of Bussy-en-Haute, where he died I. Shmelev, September -Paul de Vence, where he lived, Marc Chagall, and others
N. Dronnikov known as a book publisher, producing books and cards, printed copies to 25 copies of the printing press at home . In a series of books published by N. Dronnikovym - poems and excerpts from the diaries of his close friend Mr. Aigi, a collection of poems N. Goncharova and and other books and cards issued by the artist, as can be seen at the exhibition.
French poet and translator of Leon so shy wrote on N. Dronnikove: "Nicholas Dronnikov - the most French of Russian artists and the most Russian of French. In France it was to conquer the sky of Paris and the Loire light, delicate and vivid colors. He wanted to live and work in France, not so much for political as for aesthetic reasons - to breathe freely and travel ».
Curators - EI Pogorelskaya and NK Rebrov
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