Exhibition "I Carry a Lamp. The Plasticity of Natural Forms"

About exhibition

About twenty works by the master Yuri Kudashkin are presented at the exhibition. These include decorative bowls and pitchers, a table, chairs, stools and lamps made from tree trunks. The main aim of the artist, who worked in collaboration with nature, is to see and preserve its most whimsical fantasies. The exhibition is harmoniously complemented by landscapes of Kyrgyzstan photographed by Ivan Ilyich Evtushenko (1933–2008) — a friend and colleague of Yuri Valentinovich. More than 40 years of mountaineering taught him to observe the surrounding world constantly. The exhibition mainly features Omsk poplar in various pieces ranging in size from a few centimeters to a meter. The lamps, which seem to contain a fragment of the master's soul, fill the exhibition with special warmth. The exhibition opens on the artist's birthday as a tribute in memory of the artist, mountaineer and man. His work has been recognized with diplomas and letters of appreciation from the Siberian Cultural Center, the Kondraty Belov Museum and the House of the Artist.