Exhibition "From canvas to screen:
25 documentaries about Irkutsk artists"

December 6 at 16. 00 in the main building of the Irkutsk Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev (Lenin St., 5) opens the exhibition "From canvas to screen." The exposition, dedicated to the cycle of documentaries about Irkutsk artists created by the Irkutsk State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, united dozens of paintings, drawings, and decorative and applied art by famous masters of Siberia. The basis of the exhibition was the richest collection of the Irkutsk Art Museum, complemented by the exhibition of works from the workshops of artists and private collections of Irkutsk collectors and patrons.

Since 2012, a series of documentaries about artists has been shot in Irkutsk. Over seven years, twenty-five stories were filmed, united by two television projects: “Sketch for a portrait” (2012-2013) and “Etude” (2014-2018). The heroes of the films were the most prominent artists of the Angara region, known far beyond the borders of Irkutsk and the region. Among them are folk artists and academics Anatoly Alekseev, Alexander Muravyov, Vitaly Smagin; Honored artists Alexander Shipitsin, Anatoly Kostovsky, Arkady and Natalya Lodyanova, Vladimir Kuzmin, Sergey Eloyan, Sergey Kazantsev, as well as talented Siberian artists Andrei Rubtsov, Raisa Bardina-Shpirko, Nikolai Domashenko, Alexander Moskvitin, Oleg Ushakov, Vladimir Sokolov, Gennady Kuzmin, Elena Aleshina, Natalya Sysoeva, Evgeny Turunov, Anatoly Pogrebnoy, Yuri Kvasov, Vladimir Tetenkin, Irina Gorbunova and Mikhail Lutaenko.

The exposition “From canvas to screen: 25 documentaries about Irkutsk artists”, on the one hand, combines the work of bright, unlike each other masters, and on the other hand, shows the diversity of the artistic life of the Irkutsk region.

The exhibition will open on December 6 in the main building of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev (5 Lenin St.) and will work until January 17, 2019. Entrance to the opening is free. Phone for inquiries: 34-01-46.