On Monday, June 19, at 18:00, the opening of the personal exhibition of the painter and graphic artist Ivan Ivanovich Fartukov “Space and Time” will take place in the art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3). The exhibition, organized as part of the New Wanderers project, will last for two weeks.
2023 is the anniversary year for the People’s Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan Ivan Ivanovich Fartukov – on July 28 he turns 75 years old. He meets this event not only with new ideas, fresh stretched canvases, but also wants to look back at the beginning of his creative path in order to show us and look at the works of past years for himself.
Invaluable assistance in organizing the exhibition was provided by the artist’s daughter, Rinalda Delmukhametova. She also spoke about her father’s work and about the works that will be presented in the mArs art space:
“The exhibition “Space and Time” presents watercolor painting, which opened the way for the artist to great art. Even then, he showed a bright individuality in working with this material, he was a member of the All-Union Commission for Watercolors of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Ivan Ivanovich, as part of creative groups, visited different parts of the country: Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Taimyr, Kuzbass, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Ukraine and created an extensive series of works, many of which are represented in the collections of museums in Russia, near and far Abroad. The trips gave the artist material for the works of subsequent years, and his name became one of the leading masters of Russian watercolors. Ivan Fartukov has never worked in it traditionally. As the artist himself says, he always tried to “bring watercolor to painting.” Free, confident picturesqueness, built on the purity and strength of either transparent or dense color, determines the artist’s creative style, who equally successfully creates various compositions, still lifes and landscapes. The works that the viewer will be able to see at the exhibition “Space and Time” need no explanation. It is impossible not to recognize Uzbekistan in the paintings of Ivan Fartukov – hot air, a haze of white villages, the aroma of flowering gardens.
In 1981, a creative trip to Kuzbass, Gornaya Shoria took place. On the canvases, Soviet artists should have captured one of the main industrial deposits of Russia, one of the world’s largest coal basins and centers of industrial construction … But the volumetric breadth of the world is important for an artist – his brush is controlled by the creator. And we see the infinitely high, harsh and unexplored mountains of Shoria, full of human worries, loneliness and unearthly beauty, a rural log shop, bright as the only joy, the center of attraction for fellow villagers, a large, strong woman of Siberia on a red horse, as a symbol of will and freedom.
“The main characters of Ivan Fartukov’s paintings are the eternal and unique World: the world of the ocean, sky, earth and the Man in it, whether it be a coal gatherer, a fisherman, a hunter. A person is busy with business: he works, lives, thinking about time, about the meaning and value of life. The artist sees this and tells us that even if we do not have power over life and death, then there is a key to man’s victory over time and space – and this is creativity, ”notes Rinalda Delmukhametova.
Ivan Ivanovich Fartukov was born in July 1948 in the village of Skorinichi, Byelorussian SSR. Lives and works in Bashkortostan. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1983, member of the International Academy of Graphics (St. Petersburg) since 2004. Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus (2002), People’s Artist of the Republic of Belarus (2017), holder of the Golden Award Badge “Spirituality, Traditions, Mastery” of the Union of Artists of Russia (2013), Laureate of the A.M. Petukhov Prize (2004), State scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture of Russia (2009), Laureate of the State Prize named after N.V. Nesterov of the Republic of Bashkortostan (2022)
Source: Rosbalt
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