Hopeless painters. Leningrad-Petersburg painting. 16+ Automatic translate

At the end of March, Erarta Museum of Modern Art opens the exhibition “Hopeless Painters”.

This group was formed in St. Petersburg about twenty years ago, when in the minds of the artistic elite, painting was fundamentally irrelevant. But a little more than two dozen artists continued to insist on its need for people’s lives - in other words, they were hopelessly in love with painting.

With all the differences in the individual manners of writing, all “Hopeless painters” were united by reliance on the traditions of the pre-war Leningrad group “Circle of Artists”, on the experience of the post-war Sidlin School, on the expressive charge of the Arefyev Circle. For artists with a different agenda, they sometimes seem coloristic mannerists and flirtatious modesty, but their best works sometimes shed good old wine of pure art, give a sense of color revelation, recognizable and not canceled like human feelings.

The exhibition at the Erarta Museum will present the group of “Hopeless painters” in all its expressiveness and diversity. Among the participants are Anatoly Zaslavsky, Boris Borsch, Alla Davydova, Igor Burmistrov, Vladimir Yashke, Arthur Molev, Julia Sopina, Alexander Rumyantsev, Irina Vasilyeva, Vladimir Parshikov, Dmitry Flegontov, Joseph Zisman, Ilya Ovsyannikov, Vladimir Rogozin and other artists.

The exposition will be open on the 2nd floor of the Exhibition wing of the Erarta Museum from March 23 to May 14, 2018.