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.
Rajneesh Kumar is a fine artist from India. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at the Delhi Collage of Art in 2021 and already took part in a group exhibition in his 4th year of studies. He has worked on different projects, including large scale murals and teaching. Currently Rajneesh is working on some private portrait commissions and his personal art projects. He has learned many techniques from different artists and is searching for his own artistic voice. His work focuses on composition and rendering of the form, and recently Rajneesh has also started plein air and absolutely fell in love with It. His wish is to travel around the world, depict its beauty, meet new people and cultures. Rajneesh’s journey has started from Russia, so let’s see where he goes next.
Ritika Verma is an emerging Delhi-based visual practitioner, with ten-years experience of art engagement and cultural programs participation. She is deeply interested in using art as a tool of revolution and transformation in the communities, so she has been actively engaged in public art and community-based programmes in the city. Ritika is fascinated by the power of culture and creative expression in bringing positive change. Her body of works represent and highlight conceptual inclination and skillsets in various mediums ranging from pencil, charcoal to oil paints and fragile mediums like fabric. Ritika enjoys and thoroughly depicts nature in her images in impasto. She actively represents her mundane experiences with abstract and interesting visuals and works on the stereotypes connected to gender and the distribution of work in private and public. Her visual vocabulary has bold, thick and vibrant brushstrokes that show her intense practice of the media and liberty.
Daniela Chavez is from Margarita, a Venezuelan island in the Caribbean. This year she obtained a bachelor’s degree in the UNEARTE (Experimental Art University of Venezuela). Daniela is still in the very beginning of her journey as a professional artist. Her art is influenced by the vivid colours and lots of nature of her homeland and many fantasy themed media. That’s why Daniela creates faeries of different colours, sizes and shapes, being nice and beautiful in a sense to tell a story about unsolved problems of our society.
Agustina Caruso was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In her country of origin, she studied for several years at IUNA for a degree and teaching diploma in visual arts, however, she graduated from the Instituto Superior del teatro Colón as a theatrical characterizer. Agustina Caruso has been a drawing and traditional painting teacher since 2008. In 2019 she studied with the master of traditional painting Odd Nerdrum in both Norway and Sweden. Since 2021, she has been studying through online training with the great painter Steven Assael. Caruso promotes the recovery of the classic techniques in disuse, such as silverpoint drawing, egg tempera painting and learning how to prepare the canvas. For a few years she has been teaching those techniques and procedures on her YouTube channel. Agustina currently coordinates online training with her team for professionals from all around the world in order to promote the beauty of painting, as well as figurative and traditional craft.
Jiwon Seo was born in South Korea. She has been interested in art since she was young, and that’s why she decided to enter an art college. So she started to study painting at Chosun University College of Fine Arts. After graduating from college, she had two exhibitions dedicated to the theme “Space of Thought.” She has always been interested in people and the emotions, their inner and social components, and she is continuing to develop her paintings further.
Guilherme Felipe was born in Brazil. He has a law degree (2018) and technologist in foreign trade (2014). Since childhood he was interested in the fine arts, and during 2010 and 2011 he went to Taiwan sponsored by Rotary Club of Moreira Sales in an exchange program, where he could learn a little of chinese watercolor painting, and drawing with charcoal and graphite. Also, from 2021 until now, he took online classes at Cozinha da Pintura painting school to learn the classic method of oil painting. Currently he is studying Painting Course in the Fine Arts School at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Pierina Ovalles was born in Venezuela. She has always been closely connected to arts, so she did ballet for many years and learned to play violin. She is currently student of visual arts at UNEARTE, in Caracas, where she will get next year her Painting bachelor’s degree. At the moment, she is working as art history teacher in high school and freelance artist.
Mohammed Guessoum is a nutritionist and a multitalented artist. He received his Master’s degree in human nutrition from the Université Constantine 1, Algeria. His art journey started when he was at university, where he participated in different groups of art exhibitions. After his graduation, he decided to attend art classes at the Regional Fine Arts School, where he learned more about academic art, painting, sketching, and drawing. He exhibited at numerous national art fairs and exhibitions. He postponed his nutritional career to dive deeper into the fine arts. In 2019, he received the DARMASISWA scholarship of Fine Arts at the Institute Seni Indonesia (ISI) Denpasar in Bali. He is very curious about traditional arts and cultures.
Presently working as Principal & Managing Director of Delhi Collage of Art (DCA), Ashwani Kumar Prithviwasi has more than two and a half decades of dedicated creative charisma. His presence and contribution to the fraternity has been strongly realised not locally in Delhi-NCR belt, but also nationally and internationally. Ashwani Kumar frequently reflects on his journey as an artist and regards his becoming the founder of DCA as a mission to help innumerable unrecognised artists, refine and sharpen their skills to perfection.
Mutombo Kalunga Demerge is a plastic artist, poet and musician who showed his love for art from an early age. He was born in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and immediately immersed himself in the study of drawing, and then painting. Demerge is a figurative artist who received a classical academic art education. He draws inspiration in the modern era and leans towards the hyperrealistic direction in his artworks, bringing impressionist features to this style. In 2011, he stepped into the world of creativity and entered the Institute of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, where he passed his final exams in painting in 2015. The artist continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, majoring in painting, received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 2018, and then, in 2021, a master’s degree with honours. He is a member of the “Art and Life” community, created by him and his friends in 2019. To date, the community has created two large murals, one of which is located at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, and the other at the German Embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In addition, “Art and Life” has held two collective exhibitions. Demerge’s creative plans include writing, plastic art, painting and music.
Mouyoungui Boungou is from Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. He is a graduate of the Poto-Poto School of Painting. His favourite subjects are portraits of women and children. In 2013, he was a participant of Les Ateliers Sahm (multidisciplinary centre for Contemporary Art in Brazzaville), where he got acquainted with contemporary art practices. The artist also took part in the “From Poto-Poto to The Ateliers Sahm Workshops” exhibition in 2014. Participating in the RIAC evenings (international meetings of contemporary art), Mouyoungui received several awards, including a trip to the art residence at the Fondation Blachère Art Center in Apt and a week-long trip to Paris thanks to a scholarship from the Institut Francais in Congo. He also spent three months in the art residence at the Gasteatelier in Aarau, Switzerland, and the Montévidéo Art Center in Marseille. Along with the creative workshops of Les Ateliers Sahm, Mouyoungui Boungou participated in the Dakar Biennale with the “Aesthetics unlimited by geography” project in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Nourhene Ghazel graduated from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Tunisia in 2013, majoring in painting, and in 2015 she received a master’s degree in fine arts. She is currently preparing her doctoral dissertation and studying art at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse. She had internships in the restoration of ancient paintings and mosaics at several archaeological sites in Tunisia. Nourhene received the first prize at the Digital Arts Festival of Nabeul in 2013. Nourhene Ghazel is a visual artist, graduate student and researcher at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse, and has repeatedly participated in collective exhibitions, as well as travelled to art residences in Tunisia, Mali, Barcelona and France.
Alassane Sow Alassane Sow was born in Dakar. In 2014, he started studying simultaneously at the National Customs School and the Virtual University of Senegal. And now Alassane is a student at the National School of Crafts, Arts and Culture (École Nationale des Métiers des Arts et de Culture, ENAMC). Since childhood, he has adored art and often made various crafts with his own hands. As for Alassane’s art, it is mainly related to nature.
Sidime Sidikibа was born in Kankan, Republic of Guinea. In 2014, he received the title of the best young sculptor in Guinea. In the same year, Sidime took part in an art training in Casablanca with ITQAN. In 2017, he represented Guinea at the World Fair in Astana, Kazakhstan. Later, in 2018, Sidime became a student of the Mory Kante Higher Institute of Arts in the city of Dubreka, Republic of Guinea.
Tunzala Agabalayeva was born in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Since early childhood she was interested in arts, showing great abilities and talent for creative work. After finishing secondary school, she entered the faculty of painting at the Art College Azim Azimzade. In 2021, Tunzala entered Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts. Here she participated in many local and international competitions and exhibitions. She was awarded with numerous certificates and diplomas. A year ago, in 2021, her first individual exhibition “Colours of life” was held in the capital city of Baku. Over thirty reproductions were exhibited there.
Farid Mammadov is one of the young and talented sculptors of Azerbaijan. Since childhood, he has had a great interest and love for art. In 2014, he graduated from the art gymnasium. Farid actively participated in many competitions and exhibitions and gained significant achievements. Although Farid was often advised to change his interests, he never managed to break off his attachment to art. He received a bachelor’s degree in sculpture at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts in 2018 and currently holds a master’s degree in sculpture.