Igor Dryomin:
"Unknown Model" in the "Open Club"

Throughout the creative life of many artists, the image of a beloved model, beloved woman, loved one passes through the trail of a comet…

Botticelli, Leonardo, Rodin, Despio, Modigliani - you can list the names of great masters for a very long time, in which almost in every work when it’s quite concrete, and when it is completely intangible it is “The Unknown Model”, which inspires the author’s work with its uniqueness and beauty and gives impulse to the artist’s entire creativity. The influence of the “Unknown Model” in the work of sculptors is especially noticeable; for the living body, and especially the female, and the inner world of women have always been the most perfect and ideal object.

The interaction of sculpture and photography, creating a kind of conflict between two such opposed ways of artistic perception, at the same time only repeatedly emphasizes the merits of each art form…

Boris Cherstvy

The author of the concept is Boris Cherstyy

Project participants: Maxim Aksyonov, Sergey Antonov, Valentina Apukhtina, Maxim Zheleznyakov, Vladimir Kalashnikov, Mikhail Kalamkarov, Viktor Korneev, Igor Makarov, Boris Chistvy.