The State Russian Museum together with Sobranie Cultural Initiative Supporting & Preservation Fund invites to visit the personal exhibition of V.M. Sidorov.

The exhibition covers the main stages of the creative career of Valentin Mikhailovich Sidorov (born in 1928), the people’s artist of the USSR (1988), the people’s artist of Ukraine, a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, the chairman of the board of the Union of Russian Artists, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia. The exposition includes 90 works of 1950-2000: paintings and sketches from the artist’s studio as well as from the collections of the Russian Museum, the Institute of Russian Realistic Art (Moscow) and private collections.

Valentin Sidorov is an artist of a prominent national character. His creative work is focused on the Motherland, Russia and deeply connected with his life in every way. Being a master of ‘spiritual landscape’, V.M. Sidorov has created an original pictorial chronicle of the life of nature, its eternal circulation and indissoluble ties with the fate and fortunes of the Russian village. A series of narrative paintings and landscapes, My Motherland (1972-1973) and The Paths of Childhood, which brought him the USSR State Prize to the artist in 1984, hold a special place in the exposition. These and many other works of the exhibition go beyond the village subject central in the creative work of Valentin Sidorov going up to the wide universal meaning.

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