The death and salvation of the 21st century

Polychrome sculpture and art objects
In the Small Hall

This small exhibition is an attempt by the author to talk with the audience about the common spirit of the times for all of us, contemporaries. The material for the sculptures is wood; acrylic paints were used for painting. Painted sculpture is not an innovative refinement, but rather a tradition. According to art historians, in the Ancient World, all sculptural objects were polychrome, that is, colored. It is hard to imagine what the polychrome Parthenon in Athens looked like and what the white, classic marble figures looked like in color, but this is so. In the Middle Ages, color was actively used in Christian sculpture in the interiors of Gothic cathedrals. Color sculpture is widely represented in the folk art of all countries. In Russia, the most complete collection of such plastic is in the Perm Art Gallery.

The reference to the history of sculpture is not accidental. Alexander Eremin is interested in the problem of the existence of traditional sculpture in modern conditions, the search for simple but ambiguous forms, a reflection of current trends in society, refracted through the prism of personal perception. The sculpture object, embodied by the author, conveys one of the states characteristic of man. We are all, more or less, products of the information age, respectively, things that concern us, have also become more or less common for everyone.

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Brief curriculum vitae:

Alexander Vladimirovich Eremin was born in 1977 in Leningrad. In 2002, he received a diploma of the Artist in architectural and decorative plastic at the Department of Monumental Art of the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy (formerly Mukhina Art School).

For fifteen years, takes part in exhibitions, sculptural competitions and symposiums in Russia and abroad, performs private orders. Since 2004, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Works in wood, stone, metal and other materials. The sculptures are installed in St. Petersburg, Perm, Gubakh, Koryazhma, France (Bressuire) and Argentina (Chako), are in private collections in Russia and abroad.