On March 30, the Darwin
Museum hosted the grand opening of the exhibition “In a lotus flower, in bamboo
branches. Fauna in Chinese painting”, which introduces the works of masters and
students of the Chainka Oriental Painting and Calligraphy Workshop.
Director of
the State Darwin Museum Anna Iosifovna Klyukina addressed the guests with a
welcoming speech. The director of the museum emphasized that the animal genre
is one of the most ancient forms of art, and familiarity with world artistic
culture and traditions is an important component of the museum’s activities.
The opening
was attended by honored guests from the Chinese Embassy in the Russian
Federation: Minister-Counselor for Culture of the Chinese Embassy in the
Russian Federation and Director of the Chinese Cultural Center Feng Litao,
Second Secretaries Hei Guo and Li Yuzhi, Yun Weiwei and representative of the
Chinese Cultural Center Wang Rui.
Mr. Feng
Litao addressed the guests of the vernissage in Russian. He expressed gratitude
to the Darwin Museum and hope for further strengthening of cultural ties
between China and Russia, admired the talent of Russian artists in
comprehending Chinese painting and emphasized the importance of popularizing
this ancient art among children and youth.
Director of
the Chainka Oriental Painting and Calligraphy Workshop Olga Sumarokova shared
the history of the creation of the workshop and plans for the future, spoke
about the importance of Chinese painting in her life and the lives of other
artists. Exhibition curator Marina Galich noted that real art has no
boundaries.
Nonna
Liparteliani and Olga Obukhova performed musical works on Chinese instruments:
xun ocarina, xiao and dizi flutes, guzheng zither.
At the end
of the evening, Olga Sumarokova held an interactive master class for the
vernissage guests, during which she demonstrated the technique of creating
drawings in the fast and dynamic SE-I style (from Chinese, “idea painting”).
Before the eyes of the audience, a drawing of a red panda appeared on rice paper
in the branches of bamboo - a symbol of the exhibition and one of the rarest
animals in China.
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