Image and Letter Exhibition — 2011

A regular exhibition of calligraphy “The form and the letter” dedicated to the Day of Slavic Script and Culture to be held in St. Petersburg from May 16 to June 2, 2011

The exhibition is supported by:
the National Library of Russia,
the World Club of St. Petersburgers,
Saint-Petersburg School of Calligraphy, the National Union of Calligraphers.

Venue: Exhibition Hall of the National Library of Russia (165, Moskovsky prospekt, St. Petersburg).

The Grand Exhibition Hall of the National Library of Russia presents new calligraphic masterpieces of the first-year students of the Saint-Petersburg School of Calligraphy: Olga Varlamova, Ivan Velansky, Sabina Aliyarova, Diana Abdulova, Masha Ivanova, Ksenia Waldman, Vera Chesnokova, Anna Yashchenko, Tatiana Kutsy, Olga Zaitseva, Tatiana Yatsentyuk, Denis Lotaryov, Natalia Kuznetsova.

Along with the school students’ masterpieces there are works by students of St. Petersburg higher education art schools, carried out under the guidance of teachers D. Petrovsky, and N. Pavlova (by Anna Gerasimova (NWUP), Olesya Pogodina, (SPSU), Nadezhda Veresiyanova (NWUP), Elena Borisenko (NWUP), Appolinaria Mishina (IDAA SPb alumna), Polina Solovieva (IDAA SPb), Natalia Maksimova (IDAA SPb alumna), Daria Vasina (IDAA SPb)), as well as some masterpieces by the students of the Orthodox Culture Centre "Lestvitsa" (Head – O. A. Varlamova). In total, more than 100 pages of calligraphy were exposed.

In addition to calligraphy works, the museum exposition also presents the section of Applied Calligraphy: handwritten books, calligraphic greeting cards, greeting sheets, applied arts products and much more. Special emphasis is given to the children's exposition, which presents the first calligraphy achievements of the children's school division.

The St. Petersburg School of Calligraphy celebrated its first anniversary in 2010: in November, it was exactly five years from the date of its birth. The idea of creating a school of calligraphy was initiated and supported by the students of the Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy in Saint Petersburg. In 2005 the very initiative helped Pyotr Chobitko to create the first Russian School of Calligraphy under the Advanced Training Department of the Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy in Saint Petersburg, and to lay the foundations of the revival of Russian calligraphy.

The school's pupils participate in international exhibitions and events, dedicated to the opening of the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy and the celebration of the Days of Slavic Script, becoming a tradition both for the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, and for St. Petersburg School of Calligraphy. They are winners of the Holy Scripture in Calligraphyinternational competition, held within the framework of the II International exhibition of calligraphy-2009, Moscow; they took part in the youth exhibition of calligraphy, which was held in autumn of 2010 in Veliky Novgorod within the framework of the III International Exhibition of Calligraphy. The St. Petersburg School of Calligraphy provides classes for children and adults organized in accordance with P. Chobitko’s original programme and a training course for teachers on the art of calligraphy.

V.V. Lysenko, Coordinator
Contacts:
+7 952 243 3308
+7 904 648 0308
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Exhibition Poster

Exposition

Olga Varlamova starts calligraphic performance

Any volunteer had a chance to try her hand in calligraphic expression

Source: International Exhibition of Calligraphy