During XX century Vologda land acquired popularity in the sphere of fine arts as the major center of development of the engraving of small forms and ex-libris. In 1920s in Vologda graphic artist Nikolay Dmitrevsky was practicing ex-libris, at the end of XX century such book sign artists from Vologda, Cherepovets and Ustyuzhna as Henrietta and Nikolay Burmagin, Leonid Shchetnev, Anatoly Nagovitsyn and Vladislav Sergeev, Eugeny Lebedev showed their works. The collection of ex-librises of the Vologda regional picture gallery is one of the best in the country among art museums.
During the last years Vologda draws general attention of book sign artists. In 2004 in the Vologda regional picture gallery there was held the First congress of the Russian association of ex-libris and there was open the First All-Russia exhibition of ex-libris. Three years later the Vologda regional picture gallery receives graphic artists, collectors and researchers of small form engravings once again.
During October 18-21, the Second All-Russia congress on ex-libris tооk place in Vologda land. Its organizers are the Russian association of ex-libris and the Vologda regional picture gallery. The main event of the congress was the exhibition of modern book signs (ex-libris) of Russia of XXI century which opened in the museum and artistic center «House of Korbakov» on October, 19, 2007 at 17.00. There it was exhibited more than 1000 of new ex-librises created by 120 artists from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Ufa, Vologda, Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Tagil and other regions of Russia, and also works of graphic-artists from Ukraina, Moldova, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania. Special exhibitions of objects from the collections of private collectors and authors themselves were organized: «Modern Moscow engraving», «Book graphics of M.M.Verkholantsev (Moscow)», «Engravings by earlier generation artists», «Modern foreign ex-libris», «Russian architecture in the ex-libris», «St.Petersburg ex-libris».
The program of the congress of ex-libris in Vologda included reports and messages on topical problems of ex-libris development, presentations of new editions, carrying out of meetings with artists and collectors, visiting museums and memorial places of the Vologda area. Specially by the beginning of the congress a new issue of «Chronograph» the magazine of the Vologda regional picture gallery and the Vologda club of collectors was edited, and catalogues and collections of scientific materials were prepared.
The Second congress on ex-libris in Vologda is to present the best achievements of the book sign of XXI century and to evoke interest to the engraving, to the unique and artistically designed book, to the richest creative heritage of Russian fine arts.
Department of Culture of Vologda Oblast
Теги: en
