"Ex-libris. Famous people of the Angara region"

March 3 at the Gallery of Siberian Art (Karl Marx St., 23) opens the exhibition “Ex-libris. Famous people of the Angara region”, dedicated to the Day of the cultural worker. The exposition presents a rare genre of graphics by one of the outstanding artists of the book, Anatoly Anosov, as well as works of painting, graphics and sculpture created in the second half of the 20th century by artists of Irkutsk.

Ex libris (from Latin ex libris - “from books”) is a book sign that library owners stick or stamp inside a book. Bookplates appeared in Russia at the beginning of the 18th century, and in the 20th century they became practically an independent genre of graphic art. The ex-libris has acquired a new, deeper meaning - it has become a reflection of the personality, the spiritual world and the seal of the taste of its owner.

The exhibition introduces the viewer to ex-libris works from the museum’s collection, created by Anatoly Anosov in the 1970s-2000s for famous people of culture and art of the Irkutsk region. The exposition is complemented by the works of Irkutsk artists presented through a book sign. The main genre of the small exhibition is the portrait, but the exposition also includes landscape and still life. Here you can see the graphics of Raisa Bardina-Shpirko, Alexander Shipitsyn, Valery Moshkin, the paintings of Vladimir Tetenkin, Galina Novikova, Lev Gimov, Tatyana Lareva, the sculptures of Lev Serikov and Evgeny Skachkov.

Exhibition “Ex-libris. Famous People of the Angara Region” will work at the Gallery of Siberian Art (Karl Marx St., 23) until April 10. Phone for inquiries and appointments for excursions: 33-43-89. We remind you of the need to observe the mask regime and social distance when visiting the museum.