From July 21 to September 17, the exhibition of the original Russian painter, member of the International Federation of Artists of UNESCO, member of the Union of Artists of Russia Vasily Ivanovich Shevchenko, an “Apotheosis of Life”, works at the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery. The exposition includes about 50 works of the author from the collection of the Voronezh Regional Art Museum named after. I.N. Kramskoy.

The paintings of Vasily Ivanovich Shevchenko are original picturesque messages to mankind, always filled with the greatest sincerity of feeling and thought.

“The works of Shevchenko are distinguished by a piercing sense of responsibility for the full of tragic contradictions and, nevertheless, the beautiful surrounding world. Not without reason the favorite metaphorical figures in his work were a cock and a butterfly, symbols of the fighting spirit and the fragility of life, overcome pain and heavenly ascension, “says the honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, director of the VOKHM named after the artist. I.N. Kramskoy, art critic Vladimir Dmitrievich Dobromirov.