The exhibition “The Magic World of Images and Fantasies” has opened at the Exhibition Hall of the Elabuga State Museum Reserve
On December 12, the exhibition “The Magic World of Images and Fantasies” was opened at the Exhibition Hall of the Elabuga State Museum-Reserve from the funds of the Alexander Grekov Museum of Toys. A bright background for the collection of 196 souvenir dolls in national costumes was a personal exhibition of 24 works by Natalia Korneva, an artist from Sergiyev Posad. Addition to the exhibition are doll accessories: furniture, dishes and various accessories. The general idea of the exposition is to lead a person from a harsh reality to the world of fantasy, refinement, love and light.
The general director of ESMH Gulzada Rudenko and the director of the Museum of Toys Alexander Grekov, an art critic, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the Commission on Folk Art of the Union of Artists of Russia Tamara Atyushina made a welcoming speeches at the opening ceremony
The song “We are Matryoshka” performed by Elina and Arina Khananovs became a musical gift for the audience.
Dolls are known to mankind since ancient times, when they were made by hand. After the chemical and polymer industries developed, the assortment of toys increased dramatically, their production was put on stream. In ancient times, figurines made of clay, stone, wood or fabric were given magical significance, but over time these idols lost their mysterious meaning, as a result they gradually turned into a category of toys, and talismans became decorations. Nowadays, products that have preserved local artistic traditions also serve as souvenirs. The word "souvenir" came from French in the distant times of Peter the Great and means "a gift to remember."
Having provided his collection of souvenir toys for display in Elabuga, Alexander Grekov is a collector, a candidate of art history, an honored art worker of Russia, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, the organ secretary of the Union of Artists of Russia. He acquired unusual exhibits from porcelain, wood, plastic, clay, papier-mâché, cloth in different countries of the world.
Natalia Sergeevna is an artist known in Moscow and the Moscow Region, whose entire creative life is connected with the hometown of Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad), a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. N. S. Korneva is constantly looking for new ways of self-expression in painting, participates in various projects at home and abroad. Her personal exhibitions were presented at the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Federation Council, the Supreme Arbitration Court, the Central House of Artists (Moscow), museums, and Russian and foreign galleries. In 2014, at the opening of the personal exhibition by Natalia Korneva at the Sergiev-Posad State Historical and Art Museum-Reserve “Bylo(It was) ”, Alexander Grekov, Secretary of the Union of Artists of Russia, presented her with a gold medal for “spirituality, tradition, craftsmanship”. Her works are in Russian and foreign museums, galleries and private collections.
The exhibition "The Magic World of Images and Fantasies" will run until January 8, 2019.
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