"Pain and Love": Paintings by Leonid Polishchuk and Svetlana Shcherbinina in the halls of Arts
ARTinvestment.RU   28 октября 2013

October 31 in the halls of the Academy exhibition opens in Moscow's oldest art duo, where the famous master of monumental painting will appear in a new role - as the authors of easel paintings

Showrooms Arts, October 31 - November 10, 2013
st. Prechistenka , 21

October 31, 2013 in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts exhibition opens "Pain and Love", showing paintings of folk artists of Russia , member of the Academy of Leonid Polishchuk and Svetlana Shcherbinina . Well-known masters of monumental art , the exhibition "The pain and love " they brought in a new way - as artists easel .

belonged to the generation of the sixties , L. Polishchuk and C. Shcherbinina may Moscow 's oldest art duo , as their joint activities in the arts goes back more than half a century. Among their works - the most ambitious in Europe (12 × 45 m) mosaic " Healing a man " on the library building of the Russian State Medical University . Pirogov ( Moscow) and the painting of "consultation " in its lobby , stained glass windows at the Institute of Cybernetics and Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences , a giant mosaic on the facade of the sports complex in Tashkent , stained glass window "Pegasus" in Ufa Palace of Culture, mosaic "Surgut Madonna" on the facade of Surgut Airport .

Life Leonid Polishchuk - artist powerful temperament and enormous creative will - could be subject Kinoroman reflecting the fate of Russia in the twentieth century. He was born in 1925 in a family of revolutionaries in the early 1930s with her parents lived in Berlin ( the artist's father headed " Tekhnoexport the USSR "), a teenager delivering newspapers German Communist " Red Flag ". Soon after his return to Moscow family Polishchuk parents were repressed .

Artist passed fronts of the Great Patriotic War from 1942 until its end , took part in the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 the first and only discharged in 1949. He was awarded with the "Glory" and " World War" medals " For the capture of Vienna ", " For Valour ", "For Victory over Germany ».

He studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts ( MIPiDI ) , after the dissolution of which ( 1952) was forced to finish his studies at LVHPU them . Fly (1956). There, in the walls " Muhinki ", the artist met his future wife , Svetlana Shcherbinina (1930 ) - later the permanent co-author of his monumental and easel paintings . About his life L. Polishchuk told in his autobiography , " Leonid . Notes of the great secret of the artist " (New York: Galart , 2010 ).

Over the years the duo has gone through a real tragedy for the artist - the death of his works , with such large as the mosaics in the Moscow and a huge stained-glass window in Ufa they were destroyed by the will of the ideologues of the Communist Party. A strong, but the unexpected imagery, unusual visual language , the charge of a powerful artistic expression does not fit into the "norms " for the art according to Soviet functionaries . Created a duet Polishchuk - Shcherbinina Gubkin monument in Ufa was bulldozed for the night .

the past two decades Polishchuk and Shcherbinina work as easel , still imagery of his monumental painting. Journalistically sound of cloth " Lament for the Afghan ", " The Red Pyramid " written on the death of Andrei Sakharov's painting " Golgotha" . Imbued with a sense of high moral canvases "Panel" , "The Wheel ", " Betrayal ", " Terror /Guryanova , 19 /," " Ruined Venus " scenic loop "Pain and Love" , a series of painted portraits and graphic works .

exhibition includes 10 large-format paintings - part of the series " Pain and Love" - from the author's collection .

Source : rah.ru