2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, ONE-MAN EXHIBITION OF MARGARITA SIOURINA

On February 8 – 21, 2010, Margaria Siourina presented her one-man exhibition SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS dedicated to the memory of her teachers:

People’s Artist of Ukraine
Valentina Petrovna TSVETKOVA

Valentina Petrovna TSVETKOVA

People’s Artist of the USSR,
a great national sculptor
Alexander Pavlovich KIBALNIKOV

Alexander Pavlovich KIBALNIKOV

 
2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, one-man exhibition of Margarita Siourina
«Recalling Future», 1981

Over a hundred canvasses in oils, a dozen graphic works and photographs from the artist’s archive have been exhibited. Early works of her creative career (1981-1986) have been presented for the first time: watercolours and paintings in oils. A series of graphics FROM A SKETCHBOOK has been also displayed for the first time. The latest works (2008 – 2010) made the major part of the exhibition, and the Crimean theme was the most widely presented.

 

Mini-displays of works of the artists-teachers presented in show-windows were added to expositions of the halls; there were also large scale photographs of the teachers and original works by the artists: a plaster cast bust of V.V. Mayakovskiy, a chamber version of a monument to N.G. Chernyshevskiy in bronze, and a plaster cast model of a monument to P.M. Tretyakov (works by A.P. Kibalnikov from his family collection), a canvass in oils by V.P. Tsvetkova, Lilac (1983), and intimate watercolours by V.P. Tsvetkova from the Siourins family collection.

V.P. Tsvetkova. Lilac
V.P. Tsvetkova. Lilac
Oil on canvas 50х70 1983
 
2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, one-man exhibition of Margarita Siourina

Margarita Siourina is very grateful to Valentina Alexandrovna Kibalnikova for her help in preparing display of works by Alexander Pavlovich Kibalnikov, the remarkable Russian Sculptor, and for the pieces of art handed over for the exhibition.

 

The exhibition opened on February 8, 2010, at 18:00, in International Slavonic Cultural Centre in Chernigovskiy Pereulok, Moscow. Symbolically, the Centre is within ten minutes walk from the Tretyakov Gallery and from Moscow Art School affiliated to the Surikov Institute. Formerly, the school faced the Number one Gallery of National arts, and up to now Margarita Siourina loves and cherishes this fragment of Zamoskvoriechye.

Despite certain difficulties at the preparatory stage, the vernisage was a success. Margarita Siourina would like to express her gratitude to Tatiana Evgenievna Panich, Art Director of Ardena Gallery, for her assistance in arranging expositions in the gallery halls.

Among the guests of distinction, there were:

  • People’s Teacher of Russia Maria Andreevna Komleva
  • People’s Artist of Russia Vladimir Sourovtsev.

Official opening ceremony was held in the Concert Hall; the floor was taken by:

  • Honoured Artist of Russia, President of International Academy of Culture and Arts Piotr Timofeyevichch Stronsky
  • Ms Valentina Alexandrovna Kibalnikova
  • Vice President of Creative Alliance of Professional Artists Stanislav Arturovich Aydinyan.
  • Honoured Artist of Russia, President of International Academy of Culture and Arts Piotr Timofeyevichch Stronsky
  • Ms Valentina Alexandrovna Kibalnikova
  • Vice President of Creative Alliance of Professional Artists Stanislav Arturovich Aydinyan.

2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, one-man exhibition of Margarita Siourina 2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, one-man exhibition of Margarita Siourina
2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, one-man exhibition of Margarita Siourina 2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, one-man exhibition of Margarita Siourina 2010 – THE YEAR OF A TEACHER. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, one-man exhibition of Margarita Siourina

Margarita Siourina addressed the guests with a closing speech expressing her gratitude to her TEACHERS and appealing to take actions to preserve artistic heritage and to perpetuate the memory ‘in material’; she also expressed her confidence that among the guests there were many sharing her ideas and activities.

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