On the 22nd of November at 15:30 in SUSU Hall of Arts (76, Lenin Ave.) the exhibition of Valentin Valentinovich Kachalov, modern painter of Ural Region, will take place. The exposition will show an unkown plane of the painter's creative work.
Russian North, the creative works of ancient masters of Russian realism, experience of Western modernism and art of Russian Middle Ages had a great influence on the creative work of Kachalov V.V. The famous in Ural region artist-easel painter at the exhibition appears as painter-monumentalist and master of mosaic on Christian themes done in Russian churches.
The exhibition reveals two different planes in the creative work of Kachalov V.V. - celestial and terrestrial. The easel artistic paintings - still-life paintings which are full of materialism, common tangibility are consonant with the other part of the exposition - carton maquettes of mosaics with spiritual images. Among Kachalov's works of monumental painting there are the mosaics in churches of the Virgin In Search of the Perishing and Saint George in Chelyabinsk, works in Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg and others. The experience of Valentin Valentinovich Kachalov as a painter is very interesting and important at the present time - time of the complicated ways of self-determination.
The students of Art History and Cultural Studies Department together with Trifonova G.S., Associate Professor and exhibition superviser, take an active part in the organization of exhibition, excursions and meetings with Kachalov V.V., painter who started the collection of SUSU Art Museum with his picture "Karer"/"Quarry" of 1989.
The exhibition will be opened up to the 19th of January, 2013.
