Exhibition "Surveying the Earth. Painting"

About exhibition

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 features the epithet of the mythological patron of the Ob‑Ugric peoples, Mir‑Susne‑khuma — one of the main characters in the mythological component of Raishev's work. From mythology as an all‑encompassing universal, a cosmological unity of all living things is traced, leading to the theme "man — nature — cosmos." The exhibition, which brings into dialogue images of ancient Ob‑Ugric and Russian Siberian cultures, presents works by Raishev from the 1960s–2010s. The canvases of the later period turn toward a planetary awareness of the world as a unified whole, and of man as part of the vast space‑time. Quotations of Raishev's comments, conceptually introduced into the exhibition's context for the first time, will help the viewer understand the content of the works, and the signs and symbols of Yugra's cultural code embedded in the master's works.