The opening ceremony of the interesting project titled “Names” has been held in the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes today, on June 5. Artist Alexander Pesterev and poetess Leta Yugai are its participants.
“Names” is the author’s project of Alexander Pesterev created under the impression of unique distaffs that the artists saw in the exhibition of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes in 2011. It is difficult to classify these distaffs: their forms are typical for the certain area, but they are decorated with particular painting. Such distaffs were not produced on the line and were not destined for sale. They were made by men for their wives, daughters and mothers. The distaffs were kept, repaired, handed down from generation to generation. Their panting is not traditional, archetypic, it originates from the depths of folk memory. These moments close to the modern art were reflected in the works of Alexander Pesterev. Paintings and graphic works have signatures, dedications, like the distaffs. These are names of their owners. Poetess Leta Yugai turned them into verses”, said Olga Silina, employee of the Museum of Dionisy’s Frescoes.
The project will be implemented till June 25.
Alexander Pesterev
He was born in Gryazovets of the Vologda region in 1958, graduated from the Ivanovo Art School named after K.I. Malyutin (his teacher was V.M. Bakharev). He is the member of the Union of Russian Artists since 1996. He lives in the Vologda region.
Alexander Pesterev was awarded the badge of honour “For Contribution to the Development of Culture in the Totma District” (2008), the diploma of the Vologda branch of the Union of Russian Artists “For Contribution to the Culture in the Vologda Region” (2009), the diplomas of the Union of Russian Artists.
22 one-man exhibitions of the artist were held in the museums and galleries of St. Petersburg (the Smolny Exhibition Hall, the Centre of Book and Graphics, the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, the Dostoevsky Memorial Museum in 2007-2010), Vologda (the Vologda State Museum-Preserve for History, Architecture and Art, the art gallery “Red Bridge” in 1998-2013), New York (the Ten43 Gallery in 2011), Kostroma (the Kostroma Municipal Gallery in 2007-2012), Cherepovets (the Cherepovets Art Museum in 2013), Totma (the Totma Intermunicipal Museum Association in 1993-2013).
Alexander Pesterev is an active participant of regional, All-Russian and international exhibition projects. His works are kept in the Erarta Contemporary Art Gallery, the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg), the Vologda Regional Picture Gallery, the Vologda State Museum-Preserve for History, Architecture and Art, the Plyos State Museum-Preserve for History, Architecture and Art, the Cherepovets Art Museum, the Totma Intermunicipal Museum Association, the art gallery “Red Bridge” (Vologda), “Barkes & Barkes” (London, Great Britain), the Ten43 Gallery (New York, USA), “Art-Holding Tatiana Nikitina” (St. Petersburg), in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Leta Yugai
She was born and lives in Vologda. She is the Candidate of Philological Sciences, the author of five books of verse and the project “A Batch of Poems”. She is the member of the Union of Writers of Moscow.
Her verses were published in the newspapers “Literaturnaya Rossiya”, “Literaturnaya Gazeta”, the magazines “Druzhba Narodov”, “Novaya Yunost”, “Deti Ra”, “Novy Mir” and others.
Leta Yugai is a scholar of the Ministry of Culture of the RF (2012) and the Russian Foundation of Culture (2008-2009). She was included into the long-list of the Literary Prize “Debut” in 2010 and was the laureate of this prize in the “Poetry” nomination in 2013. She is the laureate of the Tenth International Poerty Festival in Baikal in 2010, the winner of the Vologda Slam Tournament (the Sixth Poetry Festival “M-8” in Vologda in 2011), the participant of the All-Russian Slam Final (the Second Poetry Festival “SlovoNova” in Perm in 2011).
The music video “My Lyublyud” (director A. Pereverzin, verse of A. Timofeevsky, artist Leta Yugai) became a diploma winner and was given the People’s Choice Award at the Tenth International Literary Voloshin Prize in 2012.
