Leonid Theodore. "Victory Symphony"

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Leonid Feodor presents the exhibition project “Victory Symphony”, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the 65th anniversary of the author and the 45th anniversary of creative activity.

Our fathers, mothers, parents, grandfathers, all the multinational people of a huge country who survived all the misfortunes and difficulties of hard times and who won this brutal war could endure and endlessly be grateful to the fallen for this victory and those who reached the den of the beast and those who in the field and at the factories forged victory for the sake of liberation from the fascist plague. For many years, as a man and artist, comprehending the events of the terrible war, he tried to imagine and display the feat of the country, people, my father, who fought near Stalingrad and was seriously wounded. As a result, his right arm was amputated, and in 1942 at the age of 20 he became disabled. His war lasted less than a year, but his hand still holds the torch in the memorial on the Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd (Stalingrad), as I thought when I visited there. While he was alive, and I was a student at the Rostov Art College. M. B. Grekova repeatedly painted and painted it, more often reading books. But to paint a picture or perform a series of graphic sheets because somehow did not take place. Apparently it was necessary to mature to the topic of EXPLOSION. When my father died in 1980, I developed a sketch of a simple monument on his grave in the form of an open book and a profile portrait made in mosaics. But it was only a modest attempt to preserve the image of a loved one.

Only after many years did I again return to the topic of memory and heroism in the Second World War. Initially, it was a project of the monument “Rook of Victory” in 2005 and the “Arch of Remembrance of Victims in World War II” in 2010, then, continuing the cycle of muse-objects and assemblages, a rather small series of sculptural objects and picturesque reliefs, assemblages “Symphony of Victory” appeared and appeasement ”,“ Anthem of victory ”,“ Arch of memory ”,“ Stalingrad ”and“ Fireworks of Victory ”, and other works. Some of them have already been exhibited at various exhibitions, and some are on permanent display at the Museum of Russian Culture.

I believe that in the year of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, I should express my gratitude and admiration to all who defended, liberated their native land, sacrificing their lives, and contributed to VICTORY in the Great Patriotic War, in World War II.

Therefore, on my 65th birthday, I would like to present more of this cycle of works in the main large hall. At the same time, the exhibition will also present a small cycle of graphics and painting, assemblages, pictorial reliefs and sculptures made over the past 5 years. These are the cycles “Metamorphoses”, “Transfigurations”, “The whole world theater”.

Leonid Theodore

Honored Artist of Russia, Member of the Union of Artists since 1989, TSHR, MA, MASD and other creative unions and associations. Full Member of the Academy of Russian Literature (member of the Presidium of the ARS), Russian Academy of Folk Art, Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Culture and Art, painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, designer, creator and director of the Museum of Russian Culture. Lecturer MIPK them. I. Fedorova at the Design and Advertising Department, professor at Dubna State University, Kotelniki branch.

Member of numerous Russian, international, personal exhibitions. Works are in museum collections in Russia and abroad. Winner of multiple Russian and international prizes.