The new exhibition presents
works of art of the modern Russian sculptor Gregory Pototsky, who has obtained
recognition in Russia and abroad. He has had solo exhibitions in different
cities of Russia and also in Germany, France, the United States, Sweden, Canada,
Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Malaysia, Moldova, Macedonia, Latvia, Greece,
Estonia, Serbia and the Philippines, where his sculptures, memorials and
commemorative plaques are installed. Pototsky is the founder and president of
the International Academy of Kindness, which runs "In Russia with Kindness,
from Russia with kindness", a major charity programme. He has also been honored
many times, including the order of Honored Citizen of Russia. Several films are
dedicated to him, among which are The
Magician from Old Art, Mission
Peacemaker, New Pygmalion, Art that Changes Lives and the World of Gregory Pototsky. He has also been the subject of
television programmes, dozens of articles and several catalogues have been
published, as well as the biography Artistic
Reproduction of the Soul.
Sculptures of Pototsky,
presented on the exhibition, reveal his talent of combining traditions of
Russian academic art, French impressionism and artistic inventions of Antoine
Bourdelle. In his portraits of prominent contemporaries (poet Andrei
Voznesensky, writer Paulo Coelho, couturier Pierre Cardin, filmmaker Emir
Kusturica etc.) Pototsky develops the ideas of Alberto Giacometti and other
sculptural modernism masters of the XX centuries and creates expressive
individual images. His artistic style is characterized by the love for
expressive modelling and texture intensification. In some of his works the
artist tends to the utmost simplification of the form, approaching pure
abstractionist vision.