The exhibition "Icelandic Autumn", dedicated to the days of Icelandic culture, opened at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

MOSCOW. The staff of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, together with visitors to the museum, celebrate Icelandic Culture Days. The prepared events will enable the Pushkin Museum guests to get acquainted in detail with the diversity of Icelandic culture. The museum will host lectures on various topics, music evenings.

An evening devoted to the literature of Ireland will be held, where the story of the literary critic Elena Dorofeeva about traditions in the book culture of the country will be heard. Many visitors to the museum will be interested in getting acquainted with the photo project of Varvara Lozenko, a journalist, photographer and traveler.

The project is presented under the name "320 Icelanders." Traveling a lot around Iceland, Varvara Lozenko decided to capture every thousandth resident of the country. When choosing, neither his social status, nor gender, nor age mattered. Thus was created the "collective portrait of the country."

The main event of the Icelandic Culture Days was the Icelandic Autumn exhibition, which opened on November 3rd. It shows the work of three leading artists of Iceland, created in the 19-20 centuries. The way of life in the country and the ascetic nature come to life on the canvases of Icelandic artists in the landscape genre, which they prefer.

The canvases written by Ausgrimur Jonsson depict the characteristic landscapes of the island - endless rows of rocky hills. Using a special writing technique, the artist emphasizes the pristine nature of Iceland.

Presented at the exhibition, the painting “Lava”, created by the painter Johannes Kjarval, refers to a topic on which the artist worked for about two decades. All this time he wrote a volcanic lava field, located near Reykjavik.

Gunnölügür Skeving’s canvases tell about the life of Icelandic fishermen.

The exhibition will run until November 29th.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru