Irina and Sergei Korsakoff Maksyutin the Museum of Architecture
ARTinvestment.RU   25 марта 2014

The "Grove and Stone" combines painting cycle Irina and Sergey Korsakov Maksyutina (2000s) and photographs of stone architecture southeastern Europe Vladimir Belousov (1958)

State Museum of Architecture . Shusev
March 21 - April 13, 2014
Outhouse " Ruin ", Moscow , str. Vozdviz 5/25

The Museum of Architecture. Shusev opened the exhibition " One hundred views of the olive . Grove and Stone ", which combines painting cycle Irina and Sergey Korsakov Maksyutina ( 2000s ) and photographs of stone architecture southeastern Europe Vladimir Belousov (1958 ).

Series Korsakov and Maksyutina " one hundred species on olive "- a long walk Montenegrin artists relic grove reminiscent monotonous " diaries " Impressionists, the observed objects in changing light and eigenstates . Images of old trunks , bark tread relief through canvas, far from photographic realism , on the contrary , they guessed ancient legends and myths: history of the birth of Apollo and Artemis , the news of a new life after the flood , shade gardens Jerusalem ... These images are like " sound " in painting. Each song conveys a subtle beauty " Grove " and each of its tree, its pale leaves, stem discordant , unpretentious nature .

Series has already been presented to the city museums Kotor and Ulcinj in Montenegro - the region aware of the unique mountain landscapes and monuments of stone architecture. Thus, in the foundation of the city of Ulcinj is unique cyclopean masonry, which was created without a binder solution in the pre- classical times . Stone - broken and hewn - has long been the primary building material in Montenegro : they paved the streets of his home and built a fortress , and the Basilica of the mosque , strengthened terraced olive groves .

Theme " Stone" read in a series of photographs from the collections of the Museum of Architecture . Their author - famous Soviet architect Vladimir Belousov , filmed in 1958 on black and white film stone architecture southeastern Europe. Interaction of these laconic photoimage with painting and Maksyutina Korsakov composed volumetric image of a national landscape of the country , absorbing the entire history of the ancient land .

Exhibition project "The Grove and Stone " in the historic walls of the lodge " Ruin " immerses the visitor in the natural and architectural context of Montenegro , formed the Old Town streets , walls and towers , castles, abbeys and basilicas , mosques, cemeteries and archaeological sites ... and, of course , endless olive groves .

Source : press release MUAR