White Inter-Nights 2017 III International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Saint-Petersburg showcases book illustrations by Oleg Yakhnin

The event will be held between May 17 and July 1, 2017 in Peter and Paul Fortress, Nevskaya Curtain.

The exhibition will feature book illustrations from Vita Nova publishing house collection, made by an acknowledged artist from Saint-Petersburg Oleg Yakhnin: these series were specifically designed for the house's books. The exhibit will showcase over 200 artworks, including original illustrations to Ken Kesey's “Flying Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, Anton Chekhov’s stories, books by Daniil Granin and Catullus’ poems, as well as preliminary drawings, copper and xylographic plates, and drafts that uncover the image creating process and let us understand the way a book is born. Besides the exhibit will include Yakhnin's book labels, and a series of copper plates made over the course of the last 20 years: The Seven Deadly Sins and The Slavic Mythological Creatures.

Oleg Yakhnin has been working with books since the middle of 1960s and through that time has illustrated over 50 books including those by Korney Chukovsky, Astrid Lindgren, Maria Semenova, Robert Graves and Friedrich Gorenstein. His illustrations for Goethe's Faust, The History of a Town by Saltykov-Schedrin, Hoffmann's Little Zaches, Great Zinnober and The War with Hannibal by Titus Livius have now become classic of book illustrations. Oleg worked with a plenty of publishing houses from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, including Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Detskaya Literatura, Detgiz, Malysh, Kniga, Lenizdat and Limus-Press, and other publishing houses from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Saratov, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg and many more. He also collaborated with Avror, Neva, Koster, Iskorka, Murzilka, Enisey and Paris-Paris magazines.

Source: artway.tv