The State Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno" presents the second All-Russian Festival of graphics. Launched in 2010, the festival has successfully completed its task: it has familiarized the public with the different types and areas of graphic art, showed the level of the skills of the contemporary artists working in the classical printmaking techniques: etching, wood-engraving, lithography, dry-point.
The current project consists of several sections. The first of them contains the work of famous Russian graphic designers (M. Verkholantsev, M. Konovalov, I. Makoveeva, A. Kulinich, A. Lubavin and other representatives of the Moscow School of Graphics; M. Gavrichkov, V. Mishin – artists from St. Petersburg: artists from other regions ). All works were made during the past five years. The second section will familiarize the general public with the diverse art of the graphic artists from Sweden (Gunilla Vidholm Carlsson, Anna Nordin Skog, Katarina Varme Hellström). Foreign artists will take part in the "Festival of graphics in "Tsaritsyno" for the first time that makes the project international. The third section presents the best works of the participants of the "Classical Print" contest. The fourth section of the exhibition is dedicated to the outstanding figure of Russian artistic culture of the XIX century – D.A. Rovinsky.
Author: Anna Dorozhkina