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A personal exhibition of Vasily Sukhov (1949-2023) was opened at the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design in honor of the anniversary of the remarkable muralist and teacher, who devoted more than a quarter of a century to pedagogical and administrative work within the walls of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design.

A graduate of the Leningrad Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. E. Repin, Vasily Sukhov perfected his talent in the creative workshop of monumental painting under the guidance of Academician Mylnikov. Since the 1980s, as part of the FORUS creative group, Vasily Sukhov, together with Sergei Repin, Nikita Fomin and Ivan Uralov, participated in the creation of monumental compositions in St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, and in the early 1990s, together with other artists, recreated the picturesque decoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

The anniversary exhibition introduces another important aspect of Vasily Sukhov's work 鈥� easel canvases created over the years and representing the main stages of the development of his individual painting style. The gift of deep understanding of the world in its variety of manifestations was fully revealed in genre compositions and portraits, in images of Russian nature and in images of ancient European cities. The presented works fully reveal the ability of the painter to see the painting as an integral ensemble, where full-scale impressions give the necessary impetus to the decorative generalization of form and color necessary for a muralist.

However, for Vasily Sukhov, this generalization is not only related to solving self-sufficient formal problems. It is aimed at the embodiment of the idea, where a certain measure of typification allows you to achieve the necessary figurative height as a "moral height". As if recalling this testament of his mentor Andrey Mylnikov, the artist achieves in each of the subject canvases a special purity and clarity of silhouette, completeness and plastic integrity of form.

It is no coincidence that in the image of a young mother with a child ("Quiet Evening") in the portraits of contemporaries and contemporaries, an echo of the high humanistic Renaissance tradition is discernible. The exhibition also presents a kind of picturesque nocturnes or elegies, where images of bright summer ("Blooming Flax"), quiet golden autumn ("Reflection") or the first snow can awaken musical associations in a sensitive viewer. In these landscapes there is always a place for solemn, major intonations, and for lyrical reflections. Here, next to the constructiveness of the composition and the expression of a clear pictorial basis, we will find poetically subtle relationships of color spots: thick, dense or light and transparent.

Vasily Sukhov's exhibition is an example of high skill and a demanding attitude to the artist's mission, where talent, inspiration and true professionalism, confident mastery of the skills of creating a painting are inseparably merged.