History of the region based on the materials of archeological excavations” is being opened on the lowest floor of the Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple with the refectory. It is the first full exhibition representing archaeology of the Belozersk district in the Vologda Region. Materials of the monastery archeology are displayed for the first time in our region. More than 4000 archeological objects dating back to different chronological periods are represented there: from the Mesolithic period (9000 B.C.) till the late Middle Ages.

Monk’s cell

At the end of the 20th – early 21st century considerable restoration work has been carried out in the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve. Museumfication of the monuments is being realized at the same time. One of the most interesting architectural buildings of the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery is the Monks’ cells. In the process of its restoration architects and restorers managed to discover complicated structure of this dwelling house of the 17th-19th centuries.

Folk art of the Belozersk district

Exhibitions dedicated to the folk applied art and handicrafts of the Belozersk district are placed in the spacious vaulted chambers of the monastery cook-house of the 16th century. An important place is occupied by wood-carving, ceramics, peasant embroidery, weaving, lace-making and a folk female costume of the 19th-early 20th centuries.

News

11.12.2012

Exhibition of the artist Genrih Asafov was opened in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes

A one-man exhibition of the Honoured Artist of Russia Genrih Asafov was opened in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes on December 6. About 130 paintings are presented there. Sketches of the master revealing a new side of talent of the one of the most brilliant and original painters today are exhibited for the first time.

Genrih Alexeevich Asafov

He was born in the Chirkovo village, the Ust-Kubensky district of the Vologda region, in 1940.

He studied in the vocational technical school № 7 in Yaroslavl (1957-1959) and in the Yaroslavl Art School (workshop of A.A. Churin) in 1959-1964. He entered Repin Academic Institute in Leningrad in 1964, but then he left for Sakhalin and worked as a drawing teacher at school. In 1966-67, he served in the army. Asafov studied in Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov (1967 - 1973) at the Faculty of monumental painting. He has been participating in exhibitions since 1968. He lives and works in Vologda since 1976. Genrih Asafov became a member of the Union of Russian Artists in 1977. He is the Honoured Artist of Russia since 2010.

His works can be seen in: the art gallery “Red Bridge” (Vologda), the Museum of Contemporary Art “Erarta” (St. Petersburg), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul (South Korea), the Vologda State Museum-Preserve for History, Architecture and Art, the Vologda Picture Gallery, the Plyos State Museum-Preserve, the Cherepovets Art Museum, the Yaroslavl Art Museum and so on. They are also kept in numerous private collections of Russia, the USA, Germany, Korea and other countries.

One-man exhibitions of Genrih Asafov:

1983, 1993, 2000 – the Vologda Picture Gallery;

1997 – the Vologda State Museum-Preserve for History, Architecture and Art;

2004, 2009 – the art gallery “Red Bridge” (Vologda);

2003 – the Yaroslavl Art Museum;

2011 – the Union of Artists (Moscow);

2012 – the gallery “Open Club” (Moscow);

Group exhibitions:

2000 – “Green Noise” (Plyos, Vologda, Ivanovo, Yaroslavl, Moscow);

2002 – “Genrih Asafov, Georgy Kalinin, Viktor Sedov” in the Vologda Picture Gallery;

2009 – the 11^th All-Russian Art Exhibition “Russia” (Krymsky Val, Moscow);

2011 – Art exhibition in the Museum of Lace (Vologda).

The artist about himself:

“When I was a student, we went to the exhibitions in the Manezh and I noticed the following: if people liked the artist – specialists didn’t. If specialists liked the artist – people didn’t. I though, “What shall I do?” And I told myself then, “I will try to please neither these nor those. I will do what I think. Beautiful! I got a kind of interesting freedom as a result. I have freedom in my heart: I am not afraid of anybody, I don’t need to cave in to anybody and I have started to express what I like. And this is what I call my art and now it is breaking through because it is original, deep-felt and it is natural”.

The exhibition of Genrih Asafov will be open in the museum up to February 22.

Olga Silina, employee of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes

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