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Save and deliver
On June 3, 2010 an exhibition of the Honored Artist of Russia, full
member of the Russian academy of arts, professor of the Russian academy of
painting, sculpture and architecture Ivan Glazunov “Save and deliver” was
opened in the central exhibition hall of the Vologda oblast picture gallery.
Ivan Glazunov, a son of the outstanding painter and cultural worker Ilya
Glazunov, started his creative way as a student and successor of the creative
ideas of his father. Today Ilya Glazunov is a peculiar painter with an original
mind well known in Russia and abroad, a master of church and icon painting, a
teacher and a holder of the numerous creative projects. His works are devoted to
the Russian history and culture, images of the ancient Slavic mythology,
folklore and traditional orthodox way of family life. The painter often comes to
Vologda, draws landscapes of the Northern Dvina river near the city of Veliki
Ustyug, villages and old churches of the Russian North. The name of the
exhibition “Save and deliver” is a personification of the civil and creative
position of the painter. He stands for preservation and development of
centuries-old traditions and achievements of the Russian realistic school of the
visual arts.
The painter admitted that Vologda for him is an important city dear to his heart,
and the Russian North is a place that fascinated by its nature and preserved
spiritual traditions: “ Vologda Oblast is a nice place as it gives a feeling of
the native land. Today we witness how quickly the modern civilization wipes off
the landscapes and those people with whom you can communicate and learn a lot,
but here traditions are still preserved. Besides, the North is valuable as I’m
interested in the history of pre-Peter Russia as many times ago Russia looked
like today’s North. Till our days all the traditions, all the wonderful old
things, landscapes have been preserved only in the North”.
Ivan Glazunov’s exhibition in Vologda is of uncommon pictorial and poetic
character with elements of staging using modern audio-visual means to achieve
the effect of interactive influence on audience. In the exposition together with
the author’s works of the painter, composition installations from the original
collections are included that represent the life of old Russia and a creative
lab of the modern icon painter. Wide panorama landscapes of the Moscow area and
Russian North, fairy folklore pictures “Syrin’s song” and “Song by Alkonost”,
female images of old and new Russia full of harmony and staid wisdom in Ivan
Glazunov painting are amplified with fragments and projects of monumental church
painting and with unique objects of folk art – painted village sledges and
headrest chests, original old costumes, embroidery and jewelry.
Done by Yulia Shutova