Exhibition "Otari Kandaurov. Temple of Culture:
Iconostasis of Geniuses / 2015-2017 /"

In the Theater Gallery on Malaya Ordynka - a branch of the Theater Museum. A. Bakhrushin from June 24 to July 23, 2017 will run the exhibition "Otari Kandaurov. Temple of Culture: Iconostasis of Geniuses (2015-2017). ” The exhibition will feature works by the artist created over the past two years.

At the exhibition, the artist Otari Kandaurov presents more than 100 portraits of cultural figures from different eras and countries, the few who, according to the artist, "represent the true color of society - the cultural elite of mankind." From a large series of works, the author selected representatives of European culture: among them - philosophers, thinkers, artists, composers, architects and those who combined several hypostases.

Graphic works of Otari Kandaurov created using watercolors and pencils. The combined portraits of graphic portraits do not compete with each other, but, on the contrary, complement them, creating a single ensemble. The exhibition features portraits of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, Plato and Voltaire, Peter Bruegel the Elder and Hans Holbein the Younger, Albrecht Durer and Diego Velazquez, philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Vladimir Solovyov, Sergey Rakhmaninov, Antonio Gaudil, and many others.

The author of the exhibition managed to move away from the accepted stereotypical images of his heroes, to reveal the complex inner world of everyone, succinctly expressing the main line of their life and work. His portraits turn into "faces", freed from everything temporary, and the canvas is saturated with semantic symbolic details.