The one-man exhibition of the famous Vologda’s artist Nikolay Mishusta titled “Divine Pattern of Feelings” is open in the conference-hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. 33 works created within the last few years are presented in two halls. The exhibition will be open till late June. Everybody can visit it every day, except Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Nikolay Mishusta is one of the leading graphic artists of Vologda at present. He works in the technique of coloured prints (etching, aquatint, mezzotint, monotyping). It is monotyping that has become the favourite technique of the artist over the last decades. All works displayed in the museum were made in it.
Monotyping is a type of printmaking which produces a unique print or monotype from the printing form onto a sheet of paper. The print is always unique.
In the opinion of Nikolay Mishusta, this sphere of graphic arts gave him a chance to show all his professional potential and to reveal his creative individuality.
The artist creates not only landscapes and still lifes, but also historical pictures of biblical, evangelic, and mythological subjects. Turning to sacred history, he doesn’t adhere to the exactness of subject reproduction. He trusts the intuition of his spectators giving them cause for their own thoughts and estimation.
11 works presented at the exhibition are about the biblical subjects: “Last Supper”, “Doubting of Thomas”, “Road to the Calvary”, and others. You can also see monuments of the Vologda region in his pictures and paintings created during the foreign trips of the artist.
Nikolay Ivanovich Mishusta. Graphic artist, painter
He is the Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation since 2005. His awards are: the Badge of Honour of the RF Ministry of Culture “For achievements in culture” (2002); the Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts (2003); the Order “For Service for the Fatherland” of the 3rd degree (of SS. Dmitry Donskoy and Sergius of Radonezh); the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2006), the Gold Medal of the Union of Russian Artists “Spirituality, Traditions, Mastery” (2013).
Nikolay Mishusta was born in the village of Nikolaevka in the Dnepropetrovsk region on May 13, 1953. He studied at the Odessa State Art School named after M.B. Grekov (the Department of Painting) from 1970 to 1976. He graduated from the Ukrainian Printing Institute named Ivan Fyodorov in Lviv in 1983.
Nikolay Mishusta has been participating in regional, interregional, All-Russian, All-Union and international art exhibitions since 1976. He lives and works in Vologda since 1978. He became the member of the Union of Russian Artists in 1993. He was the chairman of the board from 2000 to 2004. From 2005 to 2007, and from 2010 until now, he is the chairman of the Vologda Regional Branch of the All-Russian Creative Public Organization “Union of Russian Artists”.
