In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Monday, July 3, at 18:00, the opening of a personal exhibition of ceramist and graphic artist Viktor Golovin “Sorting through the archives” will take place. The exhibition, organized as part of the New Wanderers project, will last for two weeks.
Guests of the mArs art space will be able to see not only the artist’s ceramics, but also more than twenty graphic works specially selected from Golovin’s archives, exhibited for the first time.
Viktor Golovin was born in Dzerzhinsk. He spent his childhood and youth on the banks of the large Russian rivers Oka and Volga. Studied at the Gorky Art School. Then he entered LVHPU them. V. Mukhina to the Department of Ceramics. He studied with professors V.D. Markov and V.S. Vasilkovsky. From Markov, Viktor Golovin took an interest in working with form, volume, and the concept of architectonics. Vasilkovsky instilled in the young artist a desire for a variety of themes and images in ceramics and graphics. All this gave impetus to the development of their own creative aspirations.
After graduation, Viktor Golovin worked at the Vozrozhdenie and Proletary porcelain factories. There the artist discovered the possibilities of porcelain as a material. Victor actively joined his creative life, took part in exhibitions, presenting works made of porcelain and ceramics, as well as paintings. Since 1977, Viktor Golovin began working in Leningrad at the DPI plant of the Art Fund. At the same time, his teaching career began: first at children’s art schools, and then at the Institute of Fine Arts, the Academy of Service and the University of Technology and Design. Participated in many exhibitions held in Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk and other cities. In 1979, Viktor Golovin was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR.
Work at the DPI plant in the 70s gave the artist a powerful creative stimulus, because it was at this time that the famous Leningrad school of ceramics flourished. Viktor Golovin created a variety of works in ceramics, both chamber and monumental. This material allows you to work in a very wide range of fine arts, but at the same time, ceramics is a complex, sometimes time-consuming and unpredictable process that requires special technological equipment. The artist wanted to speed up his creative search, so he worked with great enthusiasm on sketches and sketches.
Drawing captured Victor, sketches allowed him to create a new world of ideas, reflections and fantasies. So graphics gradually became for Viktor Golovin an independent type of creativity, making it possible to directly display complex experiences, attitudes towards life, to the problems that a person faces. Using the whole palette of graphic tools, constantly improvising, Viktor Golovin achieves in his works a sense of transience of images, musicality and lyricism. At the same time, the artist’s graphics have never been presented in exhibition spaces.
Entrance to the exhibition is free.
Source: Rosbalt
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