University Has Opened an Exhibition of Paintings by Urals Artists

10:17, March 14, 2023

The exposition is based on images of urban space [photo report]

The UrFU Centre of Contemporary Culture (51 Lenin Ave.) and the Yekaterinburg Children's Art School №4 named after G.S. Metelyov presented the art exhibition "The City and its Heroes". The exhibition was held within the framework of the II Open City Olympiad-Quest on Art History. It includes works of 18 Yekaterinburg artists.

The exhibition project has brought together artists from different schools and generations to present a wide range of images of urban space - from quiet parks, old wooden buildings and the daily lives of citizens to the monumentalism of skyscrapers, the power of industrial districts and the rumble of city streets.

"The product of urbanism and the development of civilization, the modern city, is the natural environment of human life, daily routine and culture, which has given birth to a new consciousness, its own psychology and aesthetics. The city is a place of creation, formation, and development of the new, with the variety and constant renewal of architectural forms, the dynamics of development, and the production of original artistic ideas. In this way, the rhythmic organization of the artist's large canvases is subject to the "step rhythm", which is understood as an integral part of the metropolitan space," says Tamara Galeeva, director of the UrFU Contemporary Culture Center.

The vastness of the city, its eternal dynamism and movement are reflected in the works of Katerina Poedinshchikova, whose abstract pictorial forms create images of factory spaces - the heart of industrial life, hidden from the eyes of the average citizen, but at the same time fascinating and frightening. Aleksander Sivkov's compositions, which open the exhibition, are inspired by the "external" manifestations of the city - modern skyscrapers with huge windows that produce semi-abstract images of urban life, visible to the artist's eye.

"The city is a universal space. It is not only a collection of large buildings and dynamic human masses, but also man-made places of solitude and quiet existence. Such a chamber format of urban life is presented in the works of Ilya Pyankov, Elena Gladysheva, Tatyana Stepanova, and Victor Sysoev," add the exhibition organizers.

A separate section is devoted to the paintings of German Metelyov, a famous Yekaterinburg artist. His name has become a legend and an integral part of the cultural life of the city.

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The exhibition runs until 30 June. Free entrance. For university guests, please register and schedule a visit by phone: +7 (932) 616-48-58 (Veronica).

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office. 
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