Personal exhibition of paintings and graphic works by Lyubov Bertakova

From July 13 to August 31, 2017, the V. Bronstein Gallery (Irkutsk) will host a personal exhibition of paintings and graphic works by Lyubov Bertakova.

Lyubov Bertakova was born in the village of Osa, Osinsky district, Irkutsk region. A graduate of the Irkutsk College of Arts, since 1986 - a teacher of a children’s art school in his native village. Diploma-recipient at the All-Russian Exhibition Center (Moscow), was awarded a prize for the design of the coat of arms and flag of the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Region. Her works are in private collections in Russian cities, as well as in Germany, Korea and France.

The artist holds solo exhibitions not so often, but her work is known and loved in the region. Bertakova’s favorite characters are old men and infants. Behind seemingly uncomplicated plots, deep reflections on eternal values hide. Pleasant to the eye work does not look complicated, but just take a closer look, peer - and they will begin to open: layer by layer, level by level, meaning by meaning.

For many years she has been teaching children to draw. And she herself likes to draw them - young children and angular teenagers, because they are sincere, alive, have not yet forgotten and have not lost the natural gift of humanity that was originally given to every person. Just like the old people - to them, wise and ancient, this gift returned again. And Lyubov Bertakova conveys all this in her works.

The new exhibition of the artist is warm, sincere, equally understandable to both children and adults. The harmony of internal and external, the unity of form and content are present both in soft painting and in plastic leisurely graphics. Each creation breathes national color. Love for the native land, love for the family, love for the vastness, for the endless sky, a deep understanding of his involvement in this world, this time - all this is in the works of Lyubov Bertakova.

Tickets cost 150 rubles (for adults), 50 rubles (for children 3-18 years old) and 50 rubles (for preferential categories of citizens).