Exhibition "Painting by Mikhail Shevchenko" in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts

On August 28, 2014 at 16:00 in the exhibition hall of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts the grand opening of the exhibition "Mikhail Shevchenko’s Painting" will take place.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Shevchenko was born on November 15, 1963 in the village of Vesyoloye, Krasnogvardeisky district, Belgorod Region, served in the Armed Forces (1981-1982), studied at the Odessa Theater and Art Technical School (1983-1986), worked as a props-decorator in Voroshilovgrad Regional Russian Drama Theater (1986-1991), studied at the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin in the workshop of V. Reyhet (1994-2000).

Mikhail Shevchenko is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, a participant in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

At a personal exhibition of paintings by Mikhail Shevchenko in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts, the audience is presented with paintings from the Tula Outback cycle and landscapes of St. Petersburg.

The cycle "Tula Outback", on which the artist has been working for 7 years and for which he was awarded the Letter of Appreciation of the Tula Regional Duma, currently has 74 paintings. These are landscapes, portraits, still lifes. The source of inspiration for the artist is nature and ordinary residents of the Venevsky district of the Tula region.

The cycle "Petersburg landscapes" consists of 16 paintings that were exhibited at the best exhibition venues in the country. Examining the city landscapes of Shevchenko, the viewer understands that the artist does not aim to overcome the existing graphic image of the “city of Petrov”, but rather tries to convey the picturesque and plastic beauty of the majestic city of St. Petersburg.

The exhibition "Painting by Mikhail Shevchenko" will run until September 21, 2014.

The museum is open from 10.00 to 18.00, on Thursday from 11.00 to 19.00.

Monday is the day off. The last Friday of the month is a sanitary day.