Exhibition "The Magical World of Anatoly and Zinaida Timofeev"

November 23 at 16:00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 103, second floor) will open the exhibition "The Magic World of Anatoly and Zinaida Timofeev" as part of the annual exhibition project "We Remember Your Names. Creativity of the oldest artists of the Kaluga Territory. "

The exhibition presents the creative heritage of two artists, their paintings, which were created over decades. It should immediately be noted that the authors are better known as monumental painters. They jointly performed murals in the Oka restaurant, in the Kaluga hotel, the regional psychiatric hospital, the V. G. Belinsky library, the Cosmos cinema, in the philharmonic, and sgraffito in Obninsk. These wonderful murals and mosaics, which invariably attracted attention, in most cases no longer exist. An obvious paradox is that monumental art is potentially durable, but the will of the customer, the owner of the interior design, is able to destroy them for a variety of reasons. This is a tragedy of the artist, leaving him only sad memories.

The Timofeevs were participants in city, regional and regional exhibitions, and Zinaida was several times the laureate of the A. Kulikov Prize / nomination “painting” /. However, the paintings they performed were not constantly visible, but rather dispersed throughout museum vaults and private collections. For this reason, today it is difficult to imagine the total amount of work performed by artists. Perhaps, only the painting by A. Timofeev “After the Rain”, written in 1966 and for a long time in the museum exposition, gained wide fame due to its lyricism.

The works of Anatoly and Zinaida Timofeev are clearly distinguished by their originality among the works in their majority filling group exhibitions. They are evidence of their undoubted talent and imaginative perception of everyday life with its sometimes tragic twists. The artist says with a brush much more than he can express in words, and this is his clear advantage. He makes you think.

The paintings created by the Timofeev spouses represent their bright mark in modern art culture, not limited to the city or region. Culture is as indivisible as everything that distinguishes the universe.

The exhibition runs until January 13th.