15 November – 16 December, the Visual materials reading room № 307: a book exhibition “The music of colors, the harmony of images” timed to the 75th anniversary from the foundation of the Belarusian Union of Artists.
Over seven decades ago, in December 1938, the 1st Congress of the BSSR artists took place, and in one and a half year 35 painters, sculptors and graphic artists became members of a young creative community.
Belarusian artists were not empty-handed when they joined this union. The legendary Vitebsk art school and brilliant classics of Belarusian painting – M. Shagall, K. Malevich, M. Dobuzhinsky, L. Lisitsky, R. Falk – became leading lights for those who were seeking new ways in painting. The very first All-Belarusian art exhibition of 1925 showed a tremendous potential of young creative powers which had emerged after the October Revolution.
From this point on our land had borne a lot: the terrible Great Patriotic War when Belarusian creators had to change their brushes and cutters for mashine-guns and pea-jackets, the complex period of the post-war troubles and totalitarism and, finally, the years of “Khrushchev thaw” when artists made an attempt to cast off rigid ideological dogmas.
Today the Belarusian art represents quite a complex image. Coloristics, trends and styles are extremely various, from the good old realism to abstract expressionism, from conceptualism to metaphorical figurativeness, from neo-realism to performance. Belarusian art critic B. Krepak said: “We can see some healthy moments appearing, such as a belief of artists in creative enthusiasm and independence, and their devotion in the fight for new plastic methods and ideals … “.
The exhibition presents reproductions of pictures by members of the Belarusian Union of Artists along with numerous encyclopedias, albums with author’s works, books about lives and creative careers of Belarusian creators Z. Azgur, A. Bemberl, M. Savitsky, A. Kishchenko, L. Shchemelev, V. Sharangovich and others.
The exposition features as well a book–contest winner in nomination The best edition on fine arts: N. Sharangovich’s Gavriil Vashchenko. Born by Polesie: the essays on his life and creativity (2008).
Thematic articles from periodicals and a book series The Eminent Artists from Belarus will interesting to visitors as well.
In total, more than 100 exhibits are on display.
Contact phone number: (375 17) 293 27 58.
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