Far North and Far South
SPbU hosts an exhibition dedicated to the Arctic and Antarctic for the National Polar Explorer’s Day.
The new exhibition at the Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to the South and North Poles, just in time for Polar Explorer’s Day — 21 May. The exhibition features works by renowned contemporary artists on the theme of the Arctic and Antarctic, combined with scientific exhibits and archival material.
Here in St Petersburg, in the exhibition hall overlooking the Neva River, the seaport and the Admiralty shipyards, from where ships set off on expeditions to the Arctic Circle and Antarctica, such a theme takes on a special significance, bringing the ’polar myth’ to life in the most vivid way.
The exhibition features works by artists who, each in their own way, convey the «polar myth» in their art, such as
- Yuri Alexandrov
- Oleg Kotelnikov
- Viktor Kuznetsov
- Oleg Maslov
- Andrey Medvedev
- Timur Novikov
- Vadim Ovchinnikov
- Andrey Rudiev
- Ivan Sotnikov
- Andrey Khlobystin
- Ilya Chichikin
The exhibition will also feature Maxim Pezhemsky’s 1990 film "Comrade Chkalov’s Crosses the North Pole", exhibits from the SPbU Museum of Physics and Mathematics, the Dmitri Mendeleev Museum and Archives, and archival and object material from expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.