Exhibition 'Contemporary Art of Mordovia'

About exhibition

The formation of Mordovia's professional visual arts is associated with the names Stepan Erzia and Fedot Sychkov. In the pre-war period it was characterized by the activity of a small group of painters, which culminated in 1937 with the creation of the Union of Artists of Mordovia. Today it is a fairly substantial organization. It is represented by leading masters of art who hold the titles of People's and Honored Artists of Russia and Mordovia, defining the contemporary face of the republic's culture. A distinctive feature of their work is the blending of the national and the universal, a dialogue of cultures that merges into the flow of a unified cultural current. Works by the most prominent creative figures are presented in the museum's permanent exhibition. The central thread uniting the works of Mordovian masters is the major philosophical theme 'Land and People', which is freely and variously interpreted by individual artists across different time frames. Concrete observations of life and the poetry of national identity serve as the point of departure for the creativity of the republic's artists.