The image of India in the works by Aleksandra Fedorova
The Exhibition Hall at the Twelve Collegia building opens the exhibition "The image of India in the works by Aleksandra Fedorova". The exhibition is organised by the Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art at St Petersburg University and dedicated to the Year of India in Russia.
Aleksandra Fedorova, a St Petersburg artist, a traveller, and a photographer, studied at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts in the 1990s and was a volunteer student at the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the Russian Academy of Arts.
For Aleksandra Fedorova, 2024 is also an anniversary year. 20 years ago, in 2004, she visited India for the first time. She was forever fascinated by this country with its ancient culture and devoted a large number of painting, graphic and photographic cycles to India. Although the exhibition is small in size, it is retrospective of the artist’s versatile works. It presents oil painting canvases with architectural monuments, landscapes and marinas. It also features analogue, black and white photography, silver bromine prints of antiquities from the collection of the Diaghilev Museum and St Petersburg private collections. The exhibition is decorated with works of traditional Indian folk art, i.e. lithographs, papier-mâché masks and folk pictures that inspired the artist in her works.