Exhibition



Exhibition «Palette of life»

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August 3, 2018 in the Voronezh regional art Museum. I. N. Kramskoy will host the opening ceremony of the exhibition of the artist of Russian abroad, a talented lithographer, painter, researcher and teacher Varvara Bubnova “Palette of life”.

The artist’s name is significant for Russian and Japanese culture. It acquires a special sound in the context of actively developing cooperation between Voronezh and the Japanese side.

This exhibition is important for the Museum, because before the war, the Museum’s collection was the work of Bubnov’s “Urban landscape”, but, unfortunately, it was lost during the occupation of Voronezh.

The exhibition will feature 20 works by the author, created in the period 1948-1968 years from a private collection of An. Lozovoy (Moscow), transferred to the exhibition thanks to the cooperation of the Museum with the House of Russian abroad. Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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Varvara Bubnova was born in St. Petersburg in a noble family and received a classical art education, after graduating from the Imperial Academy of arts. While studying at the Academy, she joined the circle of innovative artists of the St. Petersburg “Union of youth”, participated in exhibitions with E. Guro, M. Matyushin, D. Burliuk, N. Goncharova, M. Larionov, K. Malevich.

In 1922, for family reasons, the artist went to Japan, stayed there for 36 years.

Varvara Bubnova was in the country with a long tradition of printed engravings and began her studies at the Tokyo arts and crafts school. After trying different techniques of printing, it has selected a lithograph. By the mid-1930s, she had focused on black and white engraving. It was in Japan that the author’s handwriting of V. D. Bubnova was formed, the forms and character of her art were determined. In the postwar years, she was recognized as the best lithographer of the country.

In 1958 Varvara Bubnova returned to the USSR and settled with her sister in Sukhumi, where she continued to work a lot.

Personal exhibitions of Varvara Bubnova were held in Sukhumi, Tbilisi, Kharkiv, Vilnius, Baku, Lviv, Yerevan, Dushanbe, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tokyo.
Varvara Dmitrievna is a member of the Union of artists of the USSR since 1959, in 1966 she was awarded the title of honored artist of Georgia. Varvara Bubnova was also awarded the order of the Precious crown of Japan IV degree for her contribution to the development of cultural relations of the USSR and Japan.

In 1986, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Arkhangelsk and Sukhumi, in 1987-in Tokyo were held memorial exhibitions dedicated to the centenary of the artist.

Works of Barbara Bubnova are in the collection of the State Russian Museum, the state Tretyakov Gallery, the state Museum of fine arts. A. S. Pushkin, Museum of Oriental art.

The cost of a full entrance ticket is 100 rubles.
Preferential (for students, schoolchildren, pensioners) – 50 rubles.

The exhibition will run until September 9, 2018.