Exhibition "Vladimir Arepiev Works 1974-2007."

On October 4, 2017 at 16.00, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St. 103, second floor) invites you to the exhibition of Vladimir Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Vladimir Arepiev “Vladimir Arepiev Works 1974-2007. "

Arepiev Vladimir Alexandrovich was born in the Tula region, graduated from the Kazan Art College, is actively working in the field of easel painting, book graphics. Vladimir Alexandrovich - artist, painter, member of VTOO "SHR" since 1982. Lives and works in Kaluga.

The formation of Vladimir Alexandrovich as an artist takes place in 1974. With his work, Vladimir Alexandrovich transforms the world around him. He makes the viewer temporarily abandon his view of the world and look at it with completely different eyes. Each painting emanates a unique flavor of life. People, trees, houses, churches, flowers… All this adds up to something universal. In what we usually call the world of the creator.

One of Vladimir Arepiev’s favorite topics is return. Returning home, or to the headwaters, back to the Tula region, where father and mother, where are good neighbors, where on your own skis you are rapidly flying from the top of the mountain towards the wind. Where are the bagels for the New Year, because in the post-war half-starved childhood it was the most affordable delicacy. The memory of childhood, hungry but happy, about that time and space, will probably always be present in Arepiev’s works.

Vladimir Alexandrovich is creatively active. He is a regular participant in regional, zonal, national exhibitions. In total, more than 100 art exhibitions and 20 personal ones. According to the results of participation in exhibitions, he was awarded numerous diplomas, diplomas, letters of thanks.

So in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2012, he was awarded the Kaluga Culture Department with diplomas of 1, 2, 3 degrees and incentive prizes for exhibitions on the best work on urban subjects and “Search and experiment in art”,

In 2007, at the First All-Russian competition of local lore literature “Our Cultural Heritage”, he was awarded the II degree diploma in the nomination “Remarkable People” for design and illustrations for the book “K. E. Tsiolkovsky, A. L. Chizhevsky: Kaluga pages of Russian cosmists ”. In the same year, he was awarded a letter of thanks from the Governor of the Kaluga Region for the book “Chizhevsky and Tsiolkovsky: Kaluga Pages of Russian Cosmists”.

Constantly collaborates with the Grif Publishing House. ” He designed the regional "Book of Memory" and collections of poems and prose.

2003 - picture “Autumn. View of the Stone Bridge ”purchased as a gift to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy. In 2011 - Etude “Spring” was purchased as a gift to Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsky. In 2006 - drawing Portrait of A. L. Chizhevsky Purchased as a gift to the Museum of A. L. Chizhevsky in Kaluga.

2015 - Picture “The Church of Cosmas and Damian. Winter Morning ”wins the regional competition“ Blessed Kaluga Land ”of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Kaluga Region. As a result of the competition, the picture was transferred to the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts. The author becomes his laureate.

2010 - 2016… The author of the project "Her Majesty Painting!" The organizer of the picturesque plein airs (19 plein airs) in the Ugra National Park and the monastery “Savior of the Miraculous Deserts”, Agro-tourism enterprises of the region and exhibitions based on their results.

2012, 2015 - The Union of Artists of Russia awarded the Diploma for success in creativity and the promotion of the development of Russian fine art and the silver medal of the All-Union Union of Artists of Russia.

The artist takes an active position in public life. He was chairman of the art council and chairman of the board, as well as a member of the board for 16 years. He is a member of the jury of city and regional professional and children’s art exhibitions.

Reproductions of paintings by V. A. Arepiev were included in the album "Recent History 1991–2011", the albums "Artists of the Land of Kaluga", prose, booklets and magazines.

The paintings are stored in museums of Kaluga, Tula, Bryansk, Mogilev, Obninsk, Maloyaroslavets, Gagarin, Lipetsk, the museum-estate of Polenov, Kozelsk, Borovsk and other cities of Russia, private collections.

The exhibition will run until October 29, at the address: st. Lenin, 103.