Anatoly Alekseev’s exhibition - to the 90th anniversary of the author

January 25 at 16.00 in the main building of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev (5 Lenin St.) opens the anniversary exhibition of the national artist of Russia, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, honorary citizen of the Irkutsk region Anatoly Ivanovich Alekseev, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the master.

The exposition includes more than 50 works and reflects all the facets of the talent of an outstanding artist: monumental historical canvases, genre compositions, portraits of contemporaries, graphic sheets, landscapes and still lifes. “Legendary Chronicle”, “Soldiers of the construction battalion”, “Socialist Siberia”, “Oath”, “Dedication to the Decembrists”, “Climbing builders of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station” - many works by Anatoly Alekseev have already become classics of Russian art. And it is no coincidence, because the painter is a true master of the outgoing genre of subject-and-thematic paintings.

The exposition is supplemented by a series of portraits of the Governors-General of the Irkutsk Region, co-authored with the artist Igor Solovyov, from the collection of Irkutsk State University. Many spectators will see these works for the first time.

“Through the theme of Siberia, the painter reveals the bright and dramatic pages of the history of Russia: the years of the Great Patriotic War and the difficult post-war period, great construction projects and the destinies of people refracted by the reality. In the artist’s works, there is always a characteristic clarity of composition, energy of rhythms, internal tension, an emotional palette, ”say art critics about the author.

The exhibition will open on January 25 in the main building of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukacheva (Lenin St., 5) at 16.00 and will work until March 17. Entrance to the opening is free. Phone for inquiries: 34-01-46.