CREATIVITY UNITES: PRESERVING GLOBAL VALUES
The major topic of the School program is the value selection between the internal own values and what affects a man from the outside, such as mass media, Internet, and common stereotypes. How does a modern man pass through such value conflict? What contradictory values do people face? What value dilemmas do they solve? How to save global values and avoid instantaneous influences?
Participants will have to reflect the struggle inside a modern man between eternal true global principles and aggressively imposed inane temptations of the modern world.
Project participants will attend lectures, intensive courses and master classes provided by the professors of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, and get acquainted with the art community of the city and with the students of the Academy. Students will also have a cultural program to spend their leisure time visiting world famous museums, theatres and galleries in Saint Petersburg. Creation of an artwork on the suggested topic will finalize the course.
Art critic, architectural historian, rector of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Honorary member of the Roman Academy of Arts, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" in St. Petersburg.
Semyon Mikhailovsky is an organizer and curator of exhibitions in Russia, China, the USA, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Finland. He was awarded Prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of St. Petersburg on cultural area, Commander of the Order of the Star of Italy, and other awards.
After graduating from high school, Anastasia Nikolaeva was admitted to the department of painting at the Repin Institute without exams! Here she studied at the studio of monumental painting under the guidance of People's Artist of the USSR, Professor A. A. Mylnikov. Anastasia also completed an internship at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, participated in many Russian and international competitions and exhibitions, and upon completion of her studies she was awarded a scholarship trip to Italy. Anastasia is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists, as well as a winner of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Ilya's diploma work at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg was dedicated to the historical theme of Russia and was highly appreciated by the state grading commission as well as being awarded a gold medal! IlyaZorkin is a member of the Russian Artists Association and the head of the 1st-year workshop of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. He works mainly in oil, soft pastel and charcoal. Ilya’s art is distinguished with his expressive manner together with clear lines. His works are exhibited in many museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Ekaterina was born in Chelyabinsk. She graduated from the Repin Academy of Fine Arts and completed an internship at the Creative Sculpture Workshop of the Russian Academy of Arts. Ekaterina is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists, a participant of Russian and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 2019. Her graduation project – a bust of Fyodor Volkov, the founder of the Russian theater – is installed in the lobby of the Alexandrinsky Theater, and a portrait of P. Tchaikovsky made by Ekaterina adorns the concert hall of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (Germany). The sculptural portrait of L. N. Tolstoy was also sculptured by Ekaterina Pilnikova and was installed in Seoul, South Korea as part of the Russian Seasons in 2021!
Vladimir Brodarsky graduated from art school in Odessa. He is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, a participant of the International Festival of Academies in Turin (Italy) and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Now he is a well-known sculptor and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. In his works, Vladimir declares anthropocentrism. He studies and admires a human being, thoughtfully tries different epochs, states and situations, using the human body as an ideal object for observation.
He has a musical education (a full course of music school, piano specialty). Fluent in English. Graduated from the Graduate School of Painting and Composition at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin. Participated in restoring picturesque imagery of the iconostasis of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Participated in the exhibition "Anatomical and Educational Drawing" at the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Imatra (Finland) and Tartu (Estonia). Participated in the exhibition forum "Orthodox Russia. My History. The Rurik Dynasty" in the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow. Held a solo exhibition at the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in Moscow. Participated in the international exhibition "Corpus. Anatomical Theater" at the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Presented a paper in English at the international symposium on anatomical drawing at the Dresden Academy of Arts (Germany). Mikhail Molyakov is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, a leading teacher of practical courses for art schools in the regions, and curator of master classes for students of art schools in Russia and teachers of artists in an international program in Italy. He is the author of methodological publications on anatomical drawing and manuals on plastic anatomy for artists.