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February Issue 2006
Arts Warehouse in Anderson, SC, Features Works by Four Russian Artists
Arts Warehouse in Anderson, SC, is presenting the exhibit, In The Russian Tradition, featuring works by four Russian artists, Vadim Bora, Nikolai Glukhov, Vyacheslav Zagonek and Vladimir Zagonek, on view through Feb. 26, 2006.
Vyacheslav and Vladimir
Zagonek, both graduates of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture
and Architecture (the St.Petersburg Academy of Art), and both
members of the Professional Artists Union of Russia, demonstrate
the high quality and harmony in the field of the famed Russian
School of painting.
Father Vyacheslav Zagonek (1919-1994) was an honored member of
the USSRA cademy of Arts and achieved the highest honor for an
artist in the former Soviet Union and Russia's "Honored Artist
of Russia." The artist was named "The Poet and Singer
of Mother Nature," by the Russian press and art history books.
Besides the aforementioned museums, his works are in the State
Gallery of Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Museum of Russian Art in Kiev,Ukraine.
V.F. Zagonek is noted in history and text books as one of the
premiere Russian impressionist painters of the Soviet and post-Soviet
era.
His son Vladimir Zagonek (b.1946), who continues to live in St.
Petersburg, Russia, is chief docent and teacher at the Repin Institute.
In 2002 he was named "Honored Artist of Russia" by
Russian President Vladimir Putin. V.V. Zagonek was first known
as a portraitist before he began his career in emotive still lifes
that he is known for now.
Nikolai Glukhov was
born in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia. He attended art schools
as a youngster, then went on to higher education and training
at the Mukhina Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in the field
of textile.
Glukhov later attended the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, specializing
in graphics. He has participated in international exhibitions
in Russia, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States, and
has been a member of the Russian Artists Union since 1997.
Master sculptor and painter Vadim Bora was awarded the coveted
status of "Person with Extraordinary Abilities" by the
US Government and granted permanent residency in the United States
based on the artistic merit of his work. A graduate of the College
of Art in Vladikavkaz, Russia, Bora also studied at the St. Petersburg
Academy of Art and later became the youngest member (at that time)
of the Professional Artists Union of Russia.
Bora has been an active member of the Asheville, NC, arts community
for over 10 years, but also creates works for exhibitions and
commissions abroad and around the United States. Originally from
the republic of North Ossetia in Russia's Caucasus Mountains,
Bora's work reflects the high standards found in classical and
contemporary European techniques and traditions.
Two years ago, Bora opened his own gallery in Asheville, devoted
to showcasing quality works by professional national and international
artists.
Unlimited in his ability
to create in any medium, from the smallest humorous pen-and-ink
caricature to dramatic monumental sculpture in bronze or stone
- Bora is a true phenomenon. His figurative sculpture, painting,
and portraiture exude powerful composition, form, and meaning.
Many of the allegorical themes of his work carry the imprint of
his ethnic heritage of the Caucasus, executed with his own characteristic
style and imagination, united by his professional training in
Russia's most exacting academic art system.
In North Carolina, Bora has been commissioned for three public
sculptures in the city of Asheville - The Wings of Freedom
veterans' memorial sculpture at the Asheville VA Medical Center,
Cat Walk on the Asheville Urban Trail, and the life-size
Crucifix at St. Mary's Episcopal Parish on the road to the historic
Grove Park Inn in Asheville.
Further sculpture commissions have taken Bora to Atlanta, St.
Louis, and Moscow.
Museums retaining Bora's paintings and sculptures in their permanent
collections are: the Ministry of Culture Collection, Moscow, Russia;
North Ossetia Museum of Art, Vladikavkaz, Russia; the Spartanburg
Museum of Art in Spartanburg, SC.
Corporate collections include: the BBC, London, England; The Financial
Times, London, England; Morgan Stanley, NC. Other public and private
commissions by the artist are located in: Charlotte, NC; Moscow,
Russia; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Holland; St. Louis, MO; Fort
Wayne, IN; Indianapolis, IN; Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; and Washington,
D.C., among other places around the world. Most recently, Bora's
sculptures have been acquired by the collections of the former
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs, Anthony Principi; the Consulate
General of France in Atlanta, Rene-Serge Marti; and Senator Bob
Dole.
The pieces shown in this exhibition are culled from various bodies of work that represent an amalgam of memory, association, dream, and reality, all rendered in brilliant splashes of color and texture of varying style, once dubbed by a Dutch critic as "Exuberant Expressionism."
The works by St. Petersburg artists Vyacheslav Zagonek, Vladimir Zagonek, and Nikolai Glukhov appear complements of Vadim Bora Gallery in Asheville.
For further information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery
at 864/224-8811 or at (www.andersonartscenter.org).
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