On 7 October, the opening ceremony of Vladimir Providokhin’s engraving exhibition dedicated to Noble Prize winner and writer Hermann Hesse took place in the gallery “Atrium” (3rd floor).
The engraving exhibition is devoted, in particular, to the most known Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf. Vladimir Providokhin has managed to open all the depth of ideas, the writer’s strong ethical requirements to a person, the spirituality of his conception of good and evil.
“The creativity of Hesse and Providokhin is about the same: the creator, the human which is the conscience of society he lives in... This theme is eternal”, – director of the National Library of Belarus Roman Motulsky said at the opening ceremony. Art critic Tamara Karandasheva, in her turn, noted that the artist was allied to not only the legendary writer, but also to his character.
”When I first saw Vladimir Providokhin’s engravings I was surprised by the fact that all his works were dedicated to Hesse. And it is pleasant that these works have appeared,” – director of the Goethe Institute in Minsk Franc Bauman said.
According to the artist, when working on these engravings he has found his own “style of black-and-white engraving” with unique laws of a game on the plane. The letter, a text unit, is considered by Vladimir Providokhin as the potential of a capacious expressive means. Letters (alongside with graphic elements and combinations of black and white) are an integral part of engravings and their rhythmic construction. Each line, every point and letter live their own lives.
Vladimir Providokhin (Vladimir Khin) graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Applied Arts and Design named after Mychailo Boichuk in 1975. He works in the genres of easel graphics, painting and poster. Since 1975, Providokhin has studied the synthesis in fine arts, the compatibility of an image and a word, color and sound, space and time, signs and sign systems.
Vladimir Khin is a participant of republican and international engraving and drawing exhibitions, exhibitions-contests of the poster etc. The author’s works are kept in museums of Belarus, Russia, the USA, and in private collections in Russia, Israel, France, Ukraine and Germany.
The exhibition runs till the end of October, 2014.
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