Exhibition of the monumental artist Ivan Bondarenko "With love ...". Enamel Automatic translate

The artist - monumentalist Ivan Nikolaevich Bondarenko, a famous master of decorative art, has gone through a 30-year career of a painter, sculptor, enamel.

This path includes a 20-year history of the artist’s revival of the art of enamel in Russia. The master works in different directions - sculpture, enamel, painting, ceramics. His sculptures have a precise elaboration of images, are plastic and precise in the choice of material. Whether it is stone, wood or bronze. Creating volumetric-spatial compositions, he uses different materials that express and emphasize the essence of the depicted object. Art objects created by I. Bondarenko are increasingly turning into plastic signs-metaphors, which actively include the viewer in the creative process, thanks to the powerful influence of color, form, decor, rhythm and texture. As a result, ancient enamel is gradually becoming the sphere of new experiments, synthesis of different technologies and materials.

Today, many plastic experiments in enamel are based on the formal relationship between form and color, plane and space. Therefore, in modern enamel, the search for Russian avant-garde masters of the early twentieth century continues. The path of experiments and creative search for new means of artistic expression of space, plastic possibilities and stable color solutions that are not subject to the destructive effects of time, led me to the world of enamel art.

It was here that the master felt the multifaceted artistic possibilities of glass and metal. In recent years he has been working closely and successfully in the technique of hot enamel, attracting attention with the novelty, subtle aesthetics and spirituality of successfully found images. His works stand out for their freshness, captivate the author’s intentions and carry a kind emotional charge. Compositional solutions have a deep philosophy. A wide range of mythological, religious, historical and biographical plots on the themes of love, self-sacrifice, motherhood, the struggle between good and evil, are embodied in the polychrome language of symbolism and metaphors. Ivan Bondarenko is recognizable because he has his own face, his own style and his own palette.

Major biographical events:

1960 - was born in Dneprodzerzhinsk.

1967 - 1977 - study at a comprehensive school.

1978 - 1981 - Service in the ranks of the Northern Navy of the USSR

1982 - moving to Moscow

1983 - 1988 - Study at the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (formerly Stroganov), Faculty of Monumental and Decorative Painting (teacher - O.P. Filatchev)

1988 - 1993. work in the Moscow monumental plant.

1989 - joining the Moscow Union of Artists.

1999 - the beginning of work in the technique of hot enamel

2000 - joining the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.

2015 - joining the International Association "Union of Designers".

Since 1985 to the present, Ivan Bondarenko is actively involved in creative work - he has held 150 creative events, including 135 exhibitions and 15 monumental projects for churches in Russia. He is always interested in communicating with creative people. And for this he organized his own interregional pictorial symposium "Zvenigorye", where, together with like-minded people, he writes the beauty of various parts of the Moscow region.

In addition to creating unique exhibition works, the master has long and successfully worked in the field of monumental art for churches and monasteries in Russia. He completed 15 projects for the creation of architectural facade icons in the technique of hot enamel, the manufacture of interior temple decoration, including for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Moscow), the Shrine of the Romanovs of the Novospassky Monastery (Moscow), Sretensky Monastery (Moscow), Church of the Ascension of the Lord (Zvenigorod), the Church of the Archangel Michael, (Putilkovo), the Church of the Three Saints of the Galutvinsky Theological Seminary of the Epiphany Old Golutvensky Monastery (Kolomna), the Church of Paraskeva, (Lipetsk region), pr.

The creative path of Ivan Bondarenko since 1985 to the present time he has been awarded 44 awards, including:

1. Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for great contribution to the development of fine arts, long-term creative activity
1. Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts
2. Certificate of gratitude from the head of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Krutitsky and Kolomna.

The exhibition will run until November 22.