Personal exhibition of Nikolai Barenchenkov "My soul is Russia"

The exhibition of the best works of the national artist of Russia Nikolai Barchenkov “My soul is Russia” from the collection of the Sergiev Posad State Historical and Art Museum-Reserve and the artist’s family will be held from July 29 to September 4, 2016 in the museum and exhibition complex of the School of Watercolor. Spectators will be presented more than 100 paintings and graphic works.

Nikolai Ivanovich Barchenkov - People’s Artist of the RSFSR, Honorary Member of the Italian Academy of Arts, awarded her gold medal. In his creative asset - a huge number of paintings, participation in numerous exhibitions. The works of Nikolai Barchenkov adorn domestic and foreign museums, galleries, and private collections. His work is devoted to many works of authoritative Russian art historians.

The artist was born in 1918 in Sergiev Posad in a family of hereditary toy handicraftsmen, he was very interested in drawing. And at this time - a serious injury to his right hand, a blow that not only did not break the teenager, but, on the contrary, strengthened his desire to devote his whole life to art. In just a year, the young man learned to work with his left hand and entered the “Moscow Regional Art School of Memory of 1905”, which he successfully completed in 1939. After graduating from the school, he worked as a copyist at the Museum of the Revolution. Nikolai Barchenkov was one of the founders of the Association of Zagorian Artists, now the Union of Artists of Sergiev Posad.

The landscape became the main genre in the master’s work, first of all, views of Zagorsk (modern Sergiev Posad). Such works, finished paintings and sketches, a large number. The peculiarity of these works is in the amazing enlightenment, transparency of landscapes that cause poetic associations. The artist proved to be a worthy successor to the masters of the lyrical landscape of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries.

The painting of Nikolai Barchenkov is diverse, patriotic in the best sense of the word. His series of works “Academic Dacha”, “Sayan”, “Belovezhskaya Pushcha” reflects love for the native land, and genre paintings demonstrate dignity and respect for people of work, those who are the personification of Russia.

The exhibition will be the discovery of new facets of the work of Nikolai Barenchenkov. Most of the works on display are exhibited for the first time.