Exhibition “Gennady Raishev. My Land. Graphics”

About exhibition

The exhibition presents the graphic works of Gennady Raishev, devoted to the nature and people of the Siberian North. The son of a Khanty hunter-fisherman, Raishev was particularly sensitive to the beauty of his native landscape, folk tales, songs and legends, which became the sources of the metaphorical quality of his art. In his linocuts and etchings he tells of the boundless expanses of Yugra, the development of the region’s riches and the way of life of its indigenous inhabitants. A substantial section of the exhibition is devoted to the early stage of the artist’s career—the search for subjects that later became recurring motifs in his work: the native village, people, waterways, forests, animals and birds. The exhibition includes unique prints by Raishev in the technique of color linocut, featuring generalized, abstracted images. For the first time on display will be the author’s “small” etchings with compositional explorations toward a monumental-symbolic treatment. The exhibition is complemented by studio attributes: a workbench table and the graphic artist’s tools.