Exhibition "Observing the Earth. Paintings"

About exhibition

A retrospective exhibition prepared for the 90th anniversary of the birth of Gennady Raishev, Honored Artist of Russia, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and dedicated to the memory of the artist. The exhibition's title evokes the epithet of the mythological patron of the Ob-Ugric peoples, Mir-Susne-khuma — one of the main figures in the mythological component of Raishev's work. From mythology as an all-encompassing universal emerges a cosmological unity of all living things and a turn to the theme "man — nature — cosmos." The exhibition, which places images of ancient Ob-Ugric and Russian Siberian cultures in a dialogic relationship, presents Raishev's works from the 1960s through the 2010s. The canvases of his late period address a planetary awareness of the world as a single whole and of the human being as part of vast space-time. Quotations from Raishev's own commentaries, conceptually introduced into the exhibition for the first time, will help viewers understand the content of the works and the signs and symbols of Yugra's cultural code embedded in the master's art.