Kazan artists will present the project "Comprehension. Sviazhsky Ukha (fish soup)" in the halls of the Gallery of Modern Art of State Museum of Fine Art (SMFA) of Tatarstan

Presentation of the Creative workshop " Ostrov (island)" the Volga Department of  RSKH,  TSKH of  Russia and TSKH of Republic of Tatarstan  will be  held December 4, 2015 , at 16 o'clock,  in the halls of the Gallery of Modern Art of  SMFA  of Tatarstan (Kazan, street Karl Marx, 57).

Head of Creative Workshop PORAKH and TSKHR: Konstantin Khudyakov. Project leader: Alexander Artamonov.

This is  a report on the creative workshop "Ostrov " artists-members of TSKH of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan). The project was implemented with the support of Ministry of Culture of Russia, TSKH Russia, Volga Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts and the National Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The purpose of the project - provide an opportunity for artists to immerse themselves in a historical environment of the island Sviyazhsk with its unique monuments of Russian architecture and paintings  of XVI-XIX centuries, and create artistic interpretations of its monuments, the surrounding natural landscape, the people inhabiting it, or have ever had   relation  toward it.

Sviyazhsk - one of a   its kind a place, separated from the surrounding areas  by  often an   insurmountable space, it remained almost intact for centuries and  shaped the residents with  a particular island mentality. Now Svijazhsk combines history and modernity, ancient architectural monuments and the pursuit of modernization, museumification and the realities of everyday life, solitary prayer of Orthodox monasticism and the tourist bustle, great achievements and monstrous turmoil, contradictions and tragedies of our country's history.

The comprehension of any phenomenon of history and culture occurs not only through the study of events, biographies of prominent figures, archival documents, and other important processes, but also through the most simple things that make up  everyday life - house, household items, food, hobbies, habits, habits , everyday things, providing basic human existence. The close relationship between people in closed systems, which  are the islands, their special relationship to the world that combines a kind of worship and at the same time, pragmatism, provide a stable existence and reproduction of the entire system over long historical periods.

This view of things makes it possible to discuss such an important issue for modern society as the ecology of culture, by which we mean the study of the whole complex of human relationships in a variety of forms of its life, it creates the material and spiritual values, with the natural and historical environment. It is becoming increasingly fundamental in this age of rapid technological progress, the computer and information technology, for which we forget about the integrity of the man-nature and disastrous neglect it.

Sviyazhskaya ukha

A peculiar brand of island-town Sviyazhsk   has  became ukha(fish soup). Without it, life is impossible any for  settlement on the banks of the river. For centuries fishing was one of the main activities Sviyazhtsers, providing them with food and income, and entertainment,  encouraging a  special meditative state of mind.  Sviyazhsk has its own secrets of cooking fish soup. They were feeding  ukha  themselves,  and served  ukha.  Ukha  and fishing turned into specific brands island-town. Each year in the autumn  festivals are held, gathering amateurs and professionals, "Day of Sviazhsky ukha", "Pike fishing on the river pike" and others. Without immersion in the ancestral occupation of the islanders  it  is impossible to grasp their essence, their characteristics, the secrets of organic interaction between the island and its residents.

The exhibition is open to the public from  December  4, 2015  to January  12  2016.  Opening Hours  of the  Gallery of Modern Art  of RT SMFA.

According to the materials of the Creative workshop "Ostrov."