Every fall the building of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design on Bolshaya Morskaya, 18 turns into a museum, where the exhibited masterpieces are the works of artists-teachers from Russia, Belarus, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Finland. The start of the exhibition always marks the opening of the international project of Ƶ "Creative Autumn". This season the exhibition-competition is held in the Northern Capital for the eighth time.
"Creative Autumn" is not quite a standard project. Its mission is to increase the demand for competition artists-teachers over 35 years old, to replenish the collections of museums, to strengthen cooperation in the field of creative education between countries.
Creative Fall participants are painters, graphic artists, and architects who teach creative disciplines such as drawing, painting, and design in different countries. Every year on the eve of the opening of the exhibition they share with each other their experience of using different teaching methods. This season, 124 artist-teachers from six countries participated in the Creative Fall competition.
The winner of the Grand Prix and a cash prize of 100 thousand rubles from the University of Industrial Technologies and Design was Anna Veksler, a teacher at the Herzen State Pedagogical University, with her work entitled "Messenger. Angel, folding the sky" (tapestry, measuring one meter by one meter). The artist works both in the technique of traditional weaving - tapestry, and experiments with materials: paper, textile, enamel, creating collages and various art objects.
"How did the idea of tapestry originate? It's hard to say... Each of my works begins with some feeling, a sense of image, color, then this unconsciousness begins to take shape, and only at the end the plot is formed. It was the same with this work. First the character with wings was born, then he found a book - writing, but his text went beyond the pages, turned into a scroll. But, when a concrete sketch appeared, I decided to figure out what it "drew"? I read special literature revealing the iconography of images in icon painting and got an amazing answer to all my questions. There is such a plot - an angel folding the sky! And this is one of the revelations of John the Theologian: "And the sky was hidden, rolled up like a scroll; and every mountain and island moved from their places. (Rev. 6:14)." My newfound knowledge has caused me to abandon color, only an achromatic gamut is appropriate for such content. The Apocalypse (or in Greek, Revelation) of St. John the Evangelist is the only prophetic book of the New Testament. It predicts the coming destinies of mankind, the end of the world and the beginning of eternal life," says the author.