#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Art Gallery of the Norilsk Museum and the House of Arts (Krasnoyarsk) invite everyone to the opening of an exhibition of works by the German Pashtov’s Siberian School of Woodcuts – Moment and Eternity Beyond the Arctic Circle. The event is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the prominent Siberian writer Victor Astafyev’s birth and will take place on September 13.
Woodcuts, or wood engravings, are a very ancient technique of printed graphics. Perhaps its true history is even older than the oldest surviving woodcut, discovered in 868, which is in the British Library.
In 1989, German Pashtov came to Krasnoyarsk to head the creative workshop of book graphics at the Krasnoyarsk State Art Institute, where he began teaching the technique of woodcuts. Gradually, a circle of young artists in love with the beauty and sophistication of woodcuts gathered around the teacher.
One of the strengths of his studio is book illustration. Pashtov himself has devoted many years to working with books; he is the author of many drawings. His approach is to perceive a book as a complete work, in which everything is important, from the cover and endpaper to the font. A real book illustrator is always, in a sense, a co-author of the writer.
The leitmotif of the exhibition Moment and Eternity Beyond the Arctic Circle is Victor Astafyev’s life and literary heritage. Xylographers will present illustrations for the writer’s works and paintings related to his small homeland. The authors of the works are academicians of the Russian Academy of Arts, interns and graduates of the creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts in Krasnoyarsk, members of the Siberian School of Xylography, famous and aspiring masters.
The vernissage will also feature guests from Krasnoyarsk – artist-painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Forostovsky and artist-designer of the House of Arts, member of the Union of Artists of Russia, participant of the exhibition Anton Tkhorenko.
Earlier, This Is Taimyr reported that an artist from St. Petersburg presented Norilsk in textiles and graphics.
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Text: Polina Bardik, Photo: Norilsk Museum
