The World Calligraphy Museum and Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Centre will present a unique calligraphy exhibition to commemorate the Great Patriotic War victory day. The event partners with Moscow Department of Culture, Sokolniki Park and the all-Russian social cause Volunteers of the Victory.
The topic has united calligraphy artists from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Yaroslavl, Volgograd and many locations across Russia. Thanks to them, the event will put on display calligraphy masterpieces from the museum collection, as well as the works by renowned artists representing Russian leading calligraphy schools: N. Taranov, P. Chobitko and D. Petrovsky, and their students.
One of the most appealing sections of the exhibit is dedicated to the history of military battles and titled “Let the Thunder of Victory Sound!”. A series of works, produced by a team of trainers from calligraphy art centre From A to Ѵ (Saint Petersburg), led by the chairman of the National Union of Calligraphers of Russia, Petr Chobitko, will feature chapters of the Russian battle history, such as the Battle of Kulikovo, the Battle of Chudskoe Lake, the Battle of Poltava, the Capture of the Izmail Fortress, the Battle of Borodino and much more. Through composition and calligraphy its authors have conveyed the aura of the historical era in its entire grandeur and drama.
A section dedicated to the Great Patriotic War follows, demonstrating interpretations of poems and well known songs of the day, reflecting the very essence and horrors of the Great Patriotic War, and the joy of victory. The war that claimed the lives of millions, survives in the Russian memory, and these events will certainly continue to commove artists of various generations going forward. Both artists of the post-war generations, who heard of the war from their fathers’ stories, books and movies, and the youth, have shadowed forth their ideas of the war in calligraphy.
The idea of the Russian military valour represented at this unique exhibition of calligraphy, is designed to remind of the great Russian history and unite the people through pride for their homeland.
Below, we invite you to have a look at the electronic exposition.
Alena Stas’kova
Children of the War (a poem by Boris Pasternak)
Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2015
Anna Skokova
War
Paper, ink, mixed method, tempera, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2018
Darina Biryulina
The Words of Love
Mixed method, ceramics gold, tempera, primed canvas
Russia, 2018
Dina Ruzha (Zhuravleva)
A Moment of Silence
Paper, acryl, ink, brush, broad pen
Russia, 2015
Dmitry Petrovsky
The Victory
Matte paper, white Winsor & Newton ink, broad pens. Own poem based original calligraphy on a designer’s graphic poster
Russia, 2018
Dmitry Petrovsky
Requiem
Paper, black ink, broad pens. Own poem based calligraphy on original coloured photography. Computer aided edit
Russia, 2018
Dmitry Petrovsky
Christ
Paper, black ink, broad pens. Own poem based calligraphy on original coloured photography. Computer aided edit
Russia, 2018
Ekaterina Kovaleva
Lest We Forget
Spray paint, tempera
Russia, 2018
Ekaterina Kovaleva
The Joy of Victory is Painfully Sad
Spray paint, tempera
Russia, 2018
Ekaterina Volkova
The Battle of Kulikovo
Paper, tempera, broad nib, broad brush
Russia, 2015-2016
Elena Bobkova
When it will be I do not know...
Paper, ink, broad pen, gilding
Russia, 2018
Elena Borisenko
I Сome Not From Сhildhood. Y. Drunina
Paper, ink, gouache, cola pen
Russia, 2018
Elizaveta Manerova
Requiem
Cotton, hot batik
Russia, 2017
Grigory Martynenko
For the Motherland!
Ink, glass pen, Parallel Pen, flat brush, drafting pen
Russia, 2018
Irina Lebedeva
A Dark Night. A poem by Vladimir Agatov
Vellum, cardboard, broad pen
Russia, 2015
Irina Molchanova
The Banner Of Victory, pangram
Color cardboard, ink, gouache, watercolours, pen, brush
Russia, 2018
Irina Molchanova
The Feat of N. Sirotinin, pangram
Colored cardboard, ink, gouache, watercolours, pen
Russia, 2018
Ivan Velansky
The Capture of Paris
Paper, acryl, broad nib, pointed nib
Russia, 2015-2016
Ivan Velansky
The Great Patriotic War Victory Day
Paper, acryl, broad nib, pastel crayon
Russia, 2015-2016
Ivan Velansky
The Battle of Cape Kaliakra
Dark blue paper, acryl, broad nib, pointed nib
Russia, 2015-2016
Mara Fribus
Morrigan the Raven
Cardboard, ink, gouache, flat pen, brush
Russia, 2018
Maria Skopyna
The Day the Siege of Leningrad Was Finally Lifted
Paper, gouache, nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016
Maria Skopyna
The Feat of Mercury the Brig
Paper, ink, gouache, nib, cardboard, automatic pen
Russia, 2015-2016
Maria Yashina
The Power of Truth
Paper, ink, broad pen
Russia, 2015
Marina Khankova
Whoever Will Come to Us With a Sword
Tinted paper, watercolours, ink
Russia, 2018
Marina Khankova
Four Years...
Tinted paper, watercolours, ink
Russia, 2018
Nadezhda Pavlova
Cranes
Carrara paper, Tuoniao black ink, Leonardt Hiro 41 pointed pen
Russia, 2018
Natalia Lotareva
"Alarm" (a poem by David Samoylov)
Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2015
Natalia Lotareva
A poem by front-line soldier D. Samoilov
Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2014
Nailya Lotfi (Valeeva)
In the Name of God the Most Gracious and Merciful
Geometric kufi, glass tiles mosaics
Russia, 2017
Nailya Lotfi (Valeeva)
Alif Lam MIM
Naskh style, mosaic made of natural stone
Russia, 2017
Nailya Lotfi (Valeeva)
Sabr (Patience)
Naskh, natural stone and glass tiles mosaics
Russia, 2017
Nikolay Taranov
Quote by Horatius
Paper, acryl, broad pen
Russia, 2015
Nikolay Taranov
Stalingrad, 1943. Vasily Grossman
Photography, acryl, broad pen
Russia, 2015
Olga Varlamova
Brusilov's Breakthrough
Paper, ink, gouache, broad nibs, pointed nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016
Olga Varlamova
The Battle of Navarino
Paper, ink, gouache, broad nibs, pointed nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016
Oksana Paponina
Cities of the Victory
Paper, watercolours, ink, flat brush, Roman Capital script
Russia, 2015
Oksana Paponina
We Have Defeated Death
Watman paper, watercolors, ink, flat pen, flat brush, Roman Capital script
Russia, 2018
Petr Chobitko
Borodino
Coloured paper, brush, nib, manual hot stamping
Russia, 2016
Petr Chobitko
Capture of the Turkish Fortress of Izmail “Suvorov…”
Paper, brush, nib, gouache, acryl
Russia, 2017
Petr Chobitko
The Battle of Poltava. “And the Battle Commenced”
Coloured paper, brush, nib, gouache, acryl
Russia, 2017
Svetlana Andreeva
Storks
Paper, ink, pen, acryl
Russia, 2018
Tanya Georgieva
"The Cranes Are Flying" ("Cranes" by Rasul Gamzatov)
Paper, ink, gouache, pointed pen, brush
Russia, 2015
Tatiana Titova
Cranes, a poem by Rasul Gamzatov
Pastel paper, white ink, metallic watercolours, copper
Russia, 2018
Tatiana Titova
Courage, poems by Anna Akhmatova
Copper pastel, mixed method
Russia, 2018
Tatiana Titova
He Never Returned From Battle, a poem by Vladimir Vysotsky
Pastel paper, Spenserian, black and gold ink
Russia, 2018
Vera Velansky (Chesnоkova)
Liberation of Moscow by Minin and Pozharsky
Paper, ink, watercolours, broad and pointed nib, pointed brush
Russia, 2015-2016
Vitaly Shapovalov
The Victory
Paper, watercolours, brush, gilding
Russia, 2015
Yelena Borisenko
The Memory (a fold-out book)
Paper, ink, broad pen, brush
Russia, 2015
Yelena Borisenko
At Mass Graves, triptych
Colored paper, ink, gouache, cola pen, poster pen
Russia, 2018
Yelizaveta Firtich
Memory
Photo collage, ink, pointed pen, brush
Russia, 2015
Vera Ilyina
The Ballad of T34
Paper, ink
Russia, 2015
Yulia Ivanova
In This Sign Thou Shalt Conquer!
Acryl, round canvas, contemporary сhurch Gothic calligraphy, mixed method
Russia, 2018
Yury Koverdyaev
The Statement By Sergei Shoigu
Paper, ink, pointed pen
Russia, 2017
