"Fatherland worthy person" Exhibition of works by Alexander Rozhnikov Automatic translate

October 13, 2015 at 16.00 in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts at the address: st. Prechistenka, 21 opens an exhibition of works by the honored artist of the Russian Federation, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts Alexander Rozhnikov.

The composition of the exposition includes sculptural works of different years.

Alexander Rozhnikov actively works in monumental and easel plastic. His monuments and sculptural compositions adorn the squares, streets and parks of Russian cities, many of them created for his native suburbs.

Sculptural composition History of Podolsk, Podolsk, bronze, granite 2011 3.3m

A.A. Rozhnikov was born in 1960 in the Moscow region. He graduated from the Moscow Higher Art and Industry Academy named after S.G. Stroganov. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia, Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Union of Journalists of Russia. He was awarded the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, the honorary badge of the Governor of the Moscow Region "For Merit to the Moscow Region", a letter of appreciation from Metropolitan of Krutitsky and Kolomensky Juvenal, and many other awards.

Among the significant monumental works of A. Rozhnikov are the monuments to the Russian composer P. Tchaikovsky in Klin, the poet A. Blok and L. Mendeleev in Tarakanov, the Russian empress Catherine the Great and L. Tolstoy in Podolsk, the first helicopter engineer A. M. Cheremukhin in Lyubertsy, an astronaut gallery at the landing site of Yuri Gagarin in the Saratov Region, etc. The images of our great predecessors — statesmen, figures of literature and art — are vividly and reliably presented in them. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino in Krasnaya Pakhra, a monument was opened to Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov.

Monument to the Russian Empress Catherine the Great, Podolsk, bronze, granite 2008. 4m

Monument to field marchel M.I.Kutuzov spKrasnopokhorsky bronze, granite 2012 7.2m

“When working on historical figures, I attach great importance to real portrait resemblance. It seems to me that we should introduce the hero to the descendants as they were in the prime of life, ”the artist says.

Among the best monumental works of the artist, expressing his personal attitude to the moral ideals of the era, there are monuments to the Saints Equal to the Apostles Cyril and Methodius in Kolomna and Saratov, marked by plastic power and depth, the monumental sound of images.

A. Rozhnikov created a number of monuments to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War and soldiers-internationalists, finding for each new work its original compositional solution. So, in the monument erected in Lyubertsy, the composition is crowned with the figure of a grieving angel, giving the whole work a philosophical meaning.

To the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, the sculptor devoted such memorable works as monuments to the “Nurses” in Cherepovets, during the war years the hospital city, “Children of the war”, “Military traffic controllers”, and fighter pilots “Three Ivanes” - in the Moscow region.

Monument to nurses of Cherepovets bronze, granite 2015 6m

Monument to wartime children Schelkovo district bronze, granite 2014 6,2m

"Graduated from Moscow State Art Academy named after S.G. Stroganova, a student of remarkable masters of Russian fine art Yuri Pommer, Nikolay Nikogosyan, Alexander Burganov, inherited from his mentors a careful attitude to the traditions of the national art school, the ability to creatively rethink the historical experience of national and world culture, the independence and individuality of figurative thinking ”, - writes art critic A. Rozhin.

A. Rozhnikov managed to create his own, easily recognizable style. His large-scale compositions on the themes of Russian history and culture, urban sculpture, chamber plastics are distinguished by mastery of performance, the organic unity of the monumental and lyrical principles, and the utter sincerity of images.

The exhibition runs until October 25, 2015.

Sculptural composition Favorite fees of A.P. Chekhov. House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov in Melikhovo. 2012 Bronze, 75cm granite