The exhibition of sculptor Kirill Durandin is due to be opened in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes on June 15 at 16:00. Design for the monument to Dionisy which the author suggests erecting in the Ferapontovo village will be presented there.
The museum invites all local residents and guests to come and to take part in the voting concerning this project.
Kirill Alexandrovich Durandin
He was born in Leningrad on December 5, 1970. From 1978 to 1985, he attended the art school in St. Petersburg. Then he studied in the Leningrad Art School named after V.A. Serov from 1978 to 1985. Kirill Durandin worked in Alma-Ata from 1990 to 1991 and then graduated from the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry named after V.I. Mukhina in 1994. He is a member of the Union of Russian Artists since 1994, a member of the Association of Russian Artists in Paris since 1996. Since 1989, he has been participating in international and republican exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Alma-Ata, Paris, Las-Palmas, Hamburg. His one-man exhibitions were staged in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Paris, Hamburg.
He took part in the creation of the following monuments: to the Defenders of the Motherland in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (Kokshetau); to the Fallen Firefighters (St. Petersburg), relief sculptures on the building of the N.M. Roerich School (St. Petersburg); the memorial 1941-1945 (Andijan); to the Defenders of the Motherland 1941-1945 (Kolpino); the bust of Peter I in the building of the Military Prosecutor (St. Petersburg); the sculptural composition “Space of Memory” (St. Petersburg); the memorial to people who died in Leningrad during the siege (St. Petersburg).
The works of the artist are kept in the museums and private collections in Russia, Kazakhstan, France, Switzerland, Spain and Germany.
The exhibition in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes will be open till June 25.
