Exhibition of works by Vasily Bubnov. Painting, Graphics

In the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts (Prechistenka, 21), an exhibition of works by the honored artist of the Russian Federation, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Vasily Alexandrovich Bubnov, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the master, will open.

Vasily Aleksandrovich Bubnov is one of the leading masters of Russian fine art, a famous painter, graphic artist, monumentalist, participant of numerous exhibitions in our country and abroad. His works are presented in the collections of many Russian and foreign museums, art galleries, in private collections. Expressive compositional solutions, dynamic design, bright colors create the unique style that distinguishes the work of this wonderful master.

The exhibition will comprise about 120 works created over the past decade: easel painting, graphics. Many graphic works performed in foreign trips to France, Greece, Uruguay, are combined in extensive cycles. Easel works are devoted to topics of public importance, often relevant today, such as, for example, the beginning renovation in Moscow. Many works are connected with personal impressions of various historical places of Russia. For example, living in the summer near the city of Istra, the author dealt with the theme of historical events that took place there during the era of Patriarch Nikon and more ancient times. The theme is reflected in graphic cycles and in easel compositions.

The exhibition also presents a number of canvases, which were the prototype of the compositions that became the decoration of the Petrovsky Park metro station, which opens in Moscow in early 2018. “This place is extremely close to me for the simple reason that I have lived in this area all my life and it was very interesting and important for me to somehow reflect these historical places in my work,” the artist notes. “Thus, the happy coincidence of work on the metro station made it possible to transform the materials that I have accumulated over the course of a dozen years into monumental compositions for Petrovsky Park and at the same time show their easel prototypes at my anniversary exhibition.”

Vasily Aleksandrovich Bubnov belongs to the generation of artists who entered the artistic life in the late 60s of the twentieth century. He was born in 1942 in a family of artists (father Alexander Pavlovich Bubnov - author of the famous painting “Morning on the Kulikovo Field”) and since childhood has absorbed the atmosphere of art. From 1954 to 1961 he studied at the Moscow Art School. In 1967 he graduated from the Department of Monumental Painting at the Moscow Higher Art and Industrial School (formerly Stroganovka). Since that time V. Bubnov has been an active participant in numerous art exhibitions. At various stages of his career V. Bubnov worked as a monumental artist in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Tolyatti, and he designed the Odessa Theater of Musical Comedy with his wife V. S. Shaposhnikova. In collaboration with G. Ya. Smolyakov, he worked on the decoration (chandeliers, sconces) of the Pushkinskaya metro station, and the House of Cinema Veterans in Matveevsky. Together with the team of authors, he participated in the design of the Moskovskaya metro station in Prague. In the city of Gothenburg (Sweden), he designed the reception hall of the General Soviet Consulate, as well as the interiors of the embassy in Noakshot (Mauritania).

V. Bubnov gives considerable time to easel forms of art - painting and architectural design, setting himself in each specific case new figurative-plastic tasks. Vasily Alexandrovich Bubnov - one of the recognized masters of landscape painting. The motives of his work are the result of numerous trips around the country. Based on field impressions, the artist develops plots for his works not within the walls of the workshop, but directly in nature. As you know, the embodiment of the plan with the full-scale method of work requires the artist to give himself completely, freedom of expression, and the artist is fluent in this method.

V. Bubnov is a native Muscovite, in this city he lived his whole life, loves him passionately and devotedly. The hometown is devoted to numerous graphic and pictorial series. The artist also writes elegant facades of historical buildings - the creation of great architects, and the forgotten corners of the old city, monasteries, churches, he is fascinated by new complex, diverse forms of modern buildings.

In Bubnov he works in pencil, pastels, writes in oil, believing that it is not so important for the artist in which technique or genre he works. “It all depends on what creative tasks he sets for himself.”

V. Bubnov is a man of an active life position. He is the chairman of the Board of the Artists’ Monumental and Decorative Art Section of the Ministry of Agriculture, for more than 10 years he headed the Moscow Union of Artists, at the same time dealing with organizational and creative issues, paying great attention to exhibition activities.

The audience will meet with the work of an interesting contemporary master.

The exhibition is open for visitors from January 17 to February 4, 2018.