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From field to People’s House!
Sunny August greeted artists from all over Russia with its warmth in the village of Dyakonovskaya of the Kirillov district! An open air display titled “In the Field” was staged there, in haystacks, on green mowed grass, on small beams and log houses. There wasn’t special illumination, electronic stands, name-plates, and guides there. There were only masters! Artists! Designers! People of art! And it was possible to question them about any work personally.
“We have been participating in this exhibition since 2006”, said Anna Messerer hammering the picture to a plank. “It was in that very year when my husband Alexander showed me these places and I grew found of them. Bella Akhmadulina (Sasha’s father was married to her) came here in the 1980s and we actually learnt about this region from her. We bought a house in Krasnovo in 2006. It is an ancient, manor and beautiful house. We spend summer there with our seven children. By the way, they also paint…”
The engineers’ daughter studied at the Institute of Architecture, but always dreamt of being an artist. And she actually succeeded in it. Interesting pictures presented at the exhibition “In the Field” were created by Anna and Alexander Messerer within the last two months. But not all of them were here. Many of them can be seen at the display “White-White Lake” in Lipin Bor now.
“There are plenty of joint works. We paint together. It is our style! Everybody is surprised at it. But we like to work with four hands. It seems to me that not many will be able to tell who has painted this or that part of a picture. We created the largest work during two days. It was 1,5 metres wide and 2 metres long. But on a good day, when we are in the vein, we can paint a small picture alla prima during an hour. Inspiration means a lot anyhow”, noted Alexander Messerer.
Inspiration. State of mind. Muse. These words are not simple sounds for everybody here because people who used to create often depend on them.
By the way, about sound… “I chose cubism. I use this very method in my work”, said Lidia Andreevna Kazarina unveiling the secret of her pictures full of movement and rhythm. “Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso created their works in it. In my opinion, this direction is not enough exhausted. I am exploring it in my manner – not so much colour as rhythm plays an important role here! Yes, you can also see it in the pictures! Cubism coveys sound and rhythm, that’s why I like it”.
Not only Lidia Kazarina likes sound. Alexander Alexandrovich Timakov who can be called a rather poetic artist is delighted with it. He creates wonderful paintings and quotes the great verse from memory very well. First he recited some wonderful lines of Yesenin and Pushkin to the admirers who came to him asking to sell his picture.
“San Sanych is my great friend! We are pupils of one teacher, but he began to study in 1930 and I – in 1948. The disparity of years didn’t give us a chance to meet in one studio, that’s shy we meet here, at this display. San Sanych and I are pupils of famous Sokolov and he, in his turn, is a pupil of the Korovin”, said abstract artist Viktor Semyonovich Kazarin hugging the master.
“My pictures are not being exhibited here today. But it doesn’t mean that I haven’t worked. I have created 111 works this summer. It doesn’t mean that each of them is a masterpiece. We should show the best! There are search ones among them and there are hits! I crush the worst like Surikov, Repin and a lot of others, and throw them out. I don’t participate in open air displays. I exhibit my works only in the halls. It is impossible to judge and to compare here – all works are made in various techniques… I like to attend such exhibitions because everything is simple here and everyone speaks as an equal”.
Irina Shchyochkina, artist from Moscow, introduced “Uzkovo Village” in Dyakonovskaya. She gave some joyful and light motives to the visitors. Irina displayed “Hollyhock”, “The Cat with Kittens” and “Flowers and Snow”.
“It is so pleasant to see winter in many pictures on such a hot day. Such a contract is rather interesting. Winter landscapes against a background of a haystack are a great idea”, said Marina Travnikova, permanent participant of the display “In the Field”.
Not only “snow” could be seen in the haystack. The whole village of Ferapontovo was in the haystack! There was a monastery, village houses, birches, rivers and everything that was around. Without colour. Drawn only in ordinary pencil. The artist Yegor Kaverin depicted the motives that came to his mind in Georgia in such a way.
Vera Yurieva doesn’t need to remember images of the native village. It is right outside the window. The subjects that are familiar to everybody and that we see every day are painted with blight colours on paper. They beckon us with their radiant kindness. Here you can see an elderly woman returning from the forest, a gorgeous bunch of flowers on a white tablecloth, sunset over the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes. And there are three variants of them: in summer, in autumn and in winter.
Everything at the display in the village of Dyakonovskaya was original. Even lamps were made of chips and wood. They were created by Dmitry Aronov, artist, designer and publisher of fiction who was a permanent participant of this exhibition.
One couldn’t pass by the works of Yevgeny Skrynnikov that were full of spirituality and wisdom, simplicity of the soul and love for Russian primary nature. He belongs to the generation of the artists of the sixties. He began to work as a stage designer and then was an illustrator upon graduating from the Polygraphic Institute. Yevgeny Skrynnikov took up lithography and easel painting for many years. He taught in Moscow Polygraphic Institute for 15 years. His works are kept in the Tretyakov Gallery and plenty of private collections of our country and abroad. There is more to come. He is the initiator of the traditional autumn exhibition that has been held in the field for several years. The Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes was the venue for it before. The artists who lived in the outskirts of Ferapontovo in summer summed up their season work there.
This year’s display organized on the initiative of the artist Oleg Teplitsky became not only the venue for presentation of different works, but also a selection point of pictures for “Autumn Exhibition” that would be opened in the People’s House of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve in late August.
We look forward to seeing everybody who couldn’t come to in the village of Dyakonovskaya, in the People’s House. We promise that summer will stay with us for a rather long time thanks to the displayed works!
We look forward to seeing everybody who couldn’t come to in the village of Dyakonovskaya, in the People’s House. We promise that summer will stay with us for a rather long time thanks to the displayed works!
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Official name of the museum:
The Federal State Budgetary Institution of Culture “Kirillo-Belozersky Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve”
Founded:
In 1924
Museum status:
It was included into the State List of Particularly Valuable Objects of Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of the Russian Federation in 1997.
