Exhibition "Yuri Shestakov. Painting. Graphics. Author’s book"

In the halls of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 103), the opening of the exhibition “Yuri Shestakov. Painting. Graphic arts. Author’s book. "

Yuri Shestakov. Black bottle still life

Yuri Vladimirovich Shestakov was born in 1953 in Moscow. In 1970 - 1975 studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists (Moscow Print Association). Exhibited as a painter and graphic artist since 1976. In 2008 he was awarded a diploma named after I.I. Nivinsky, in 2013 he was awarded the medal of the Moscow Union of Artists for his services to the development of fine arts. He created suites of lithographs for a number of man-made short-run books: “Francois Villon. Favorite "," Francois Rabelais. The inscription on the gates of the Thelemic monastery "(chapter from the novel" Gargantua and Pantagruel ")," Sappho. Songs, Epigrams of Greek Anthology.

The author’s creativity is distinguished not only by the search for form, color, successful composition, but also the desire to combine literature, text and art form, the embodiment of the word in the images of the corresponding eras.

The exposition combines paintings and graphic works created by the artist from 1973 to 2015. Most of the graphic works were donated by the author to the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts in 2016.

The works of Yu. Shestapkov are in the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg), the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), and the State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin (Moscow), Museum of Bookplate (Moscow), Museum of Francois Rabelais (Tours, France), Yaroslavl Art Museum, Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts, Russian State Library (Moscow), Prints Department of the State Public Library )St. Petersburg), Central Library for Art (Moscow), Stanford University Library (USA), in private collections in Russia, Belgium and Germany.

For visitors, the exhibition will run from April 20 to May 14, 2017.

The museum is open from 10.00 to 18.00, on Saturday from 11.00 to 19.00.

Monday is the day off. The last Friday of the month is a sanitary day.

Address: st. Lenin, 103, the building of the Information, educational and exhibition center of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts.

Contact phone - 8 (4842) 56-28-30.