Exhibition



Anniversary exhibition of Ksenia Uspenskaya (0+)

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October 20 at 16.00 in the exhibition hall of the Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoye will host the opening of an exhibition timed to the 95th anniversary of the famous Voronezh artist Ksenia Nikolaevna Uspenskaya.

The exhibition will feature works by the artist dedicated to contemporaries, youth and children. In addition to painting will be presented and graphic sheets – watercolors made during a trip to India with her husband – the famous artist Vasily Krivoruchko.

In total, the exhibition will feature about 30 works from the VOKHM Foundation. I.N. Kramsk and private collections.

Ksenia Uspenskaya is an artist with a worldwide reputation. Her works are in galleries in London, New York, Washington, in private collections in Holland, Germany, the Czech Republic. In Russia, her works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy, the picture gallery of Ryazan, as well as in a private gallery. Her works by Ksenia Uspenskaya were reproduced in school textbooks and postcards, and the books illustrated by her are known to a wide range of readers.

Ksenia Nikolaevna was born in Voronezh in 1922 in the family of Professor N.A. Uspensky. In her youth she studied art school, music and art schools. Music and fine art organically entered the life of Xenia Nikolaevna, influenced the formation of her subtle artistic taste and became the meaning of her life.

Art education Ksenia Uspenskaya received in Moscow, graduating from the faculty of art ceramics of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts under the leadership of AA. Deineki in 1949. After work at the Moscow Research Institute of Building Materials, she returned to Voronezh and since 1953 she has been a regular participant in the exhibitions of the Voronezh organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR.

Over the years, Ksenia Uspenskaya successfully combined artistic pursuits with public and scientific and pedagogical activities. Becoming an associate professor of the Department of Agricultural Architecture, worked in the various commissions of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, repeatedly elected deputy of the Regional Council of Working People’s Deputies. Owing to such diverse activities, the artist’s view of all possible manifestations of social life, her work as permanent artistic predilections, the genre picture and portrait have become firmly established.

Over the years, Ksenia Uspenskaya is a model of a person who is engaged in a loved thing very sincerely and with great devotion.

The exhibition will last until November 26, 2017.

The entrance fee for all categories of citizens is 50 rubles.