Exhibition project "Roll call of eras"

The exhibition "Call of Epochs" from the cycle "Artistic Dynasties" for the first time in many years presents a large-scale work of four generations of famous masters from the Savinov dynasty, whose work is inextricably linked with St. Petersburg.

The founder of the dynasty, Alexander Savinov (1881-1942), belongs to the era of the first quarter of the twentieth century. Born in Saratov and living there until 1901, he then moved to St. Petersburg, where the artist's talent is revealed in full force. From his youth, Alexander Savinov absorbed the traditions of the richest culture of the "Saratov school", bringing the aesthetics of the Goluborozovites into the art of the city on the Neva. It is no coincidence that contemporaries called Alexander Savinov "the pacified Vrubel", noting the artist's special feeling of the world, the decorative tapestry character of his works.

The exposition of the exhibition includes the works of the master of the 1930s - portraits and genre compositions. For the first time, the audience will be shown the iconic thematic work "In the Park of Culture" (1936-1942), in which the artist tried to realize his dream of earthly joy, of a happy life for mankind.

Gleb Savinov (1915-2000) and his wife Olga Bogaevskaya (1915-2000) represent the era of the second half of the 20th century, starting from the 1950s. Each of them, being an absolutely original painter, a bright artistic personality, left a vast legacy of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre compositions, which perfectly combine the atmosphere of time and immediacy in the imaginative perception of the world, artistic culture, a sense of proportion and pictorial freedom, and sometimes emotional looseness in the expression of innermost thoughts.

The daughter of Gleb Savinov and Olga Bogaevskaya, Natalia Savinova (1945-2013), and their granddaughter, Ekaterina Sukhareva (born 1969), have found application for their versatile talents in ceramics. And in this form of art, both of them, each in its own way, gave free rein to their fantasies, plastic and coloristic possibilities.

The exhibition will feature about 80 paintings and 50 ceramic works.