NATURE IS A GREAT MAGICIAN

9 august 2007—26 august 2007

On 9 August the Stroganov Palace of the Russian Museum opens the Nature is a Great Magician! exhibition. The show comprises 74 colour photographs by Alex Volborth, a professor of geology, renowned expert in geochemistry, mineralogy and analytics (Dayton, Montana, USA). After the retirement Alex Volborth remembered that there are a lot of interesting views and odd surfaces seen on rocks, when he worked as a geologist. There are a lot of views in the world that remind us of paintings by Mikhail Vrubel, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí, Edvard Munch, sculpture and architecture. The aim of the exhibition is to show the beauty, variety and richness of natural representations found by the scientist in caves and on wind-worn rocks in the Mojave desert in southern Nevada. Travelling during three years he took 6000 photographs of these places. Some photographs are given the titles in honour of renowned photographers, philosophers, writers and book characters. This is the first ever comprehensive exhibition of photographs-associations by Alex Volborth in Russia.

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Konstantin Bogayevsky

10 february—22 may 2023

This exhibition celebrates 150 years since the birth of Konstantin Fyodorovich Bogayevsky (1872–1943), one of the most prominent artists of Russia’s Silver Age. A pupil of Ivan Aivazovsky, Ivan Shishkin and Arkhip Kuindzhi, Bogayevsky graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1897, commencing his career at a crucial juncture in the history of Russian art.

Leonid Kolibaba. Sculpture and Drawings

16 september 2022—23 january 2023

This exhibition will acquaint visitors with the work of Leonid Kolibaba, a renowned St. Petersburg-based sculptor, graphic artist and educator, and member of the Ozerki Artists’ Village informal art group.

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27 april—19 june 2023 > Marble Palace Alexey Vaulin. Living Substance
13 april—3 july 2023 > St Michael’s Castle Leonid Sherwood (1871–1954)

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