September 21 at 16.00 in the Main building of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukachev opens a personal exhibition of the People's Artist of the USSR and the Russian Federation, President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli. In the exposition “Metaphysical realism. Graphics by Zurab Tsereteli” presents 43 works of the master, executed on paper using the silk-screen printing technique.

The name of Zurab Tsereteli, a muralist, sculptor, painter and graphic artist, is known all over the world. The master was widely known not only for grandiose monuments, mosaics, large-scale compositions made of cast and chased metal, but also for easel paintings and drawings. In his work, the artist skillfully combines the traditions of the Russian academic school, European modernism and orientalism.

In the series "Album Sheets", presented at the exhibition in Irkutsk, images of the native country of Georgia are embodied. Among the plots depicted are the everyday life and holidays of the inhabitants of Georgian villages, folk characters, which, in the performance of the artist, acquire the meaning of peculiar folk parables and legends. Portraits of people close and familiar to the artist have a monumental connotation, as well as the work of the master as a whole. All works of the exhibition are united by the artist's passion for bright and contrasting color combinations, large image formats.

The exhibition will run until November 6, 2022 in the Main Building of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum. V.P. Sukacheva (Lenin St., 5). Phone for inquiries: 34-01-46. The exposition is available on the Pushkin map.

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