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ABOUT G.S.RAISHEV’S
STUDIO AND GALLERY
The song of the woodpecker. 1978. “G.S.Raishev’s Studio and Gallery” has
got the largest collection of works belonged
to Gennadiy Stepanovich Raishev, the RF
sacred groves and ancient burials. In 1993, their roles with pleasure. Hung on a pole Honoured Artist, the Corresponding Member
the armed people protected their shrines. with the paws, it seems that the bear is of the Russian Art Academy.
Yamal conflict got a broad public resonance. swinging in time with hunters’ steps who The museum funds kept in an affiliate
The moral aspect of the conflict had been are bending with their load heaviness. They account 1630 items of the museum storage:
thought over as a philosophical problem for do not obviously need hunting provision, the main fund – 1607 items, the academic and
the first time. rifles, and axes. Maybe, it is no accident assistant one – 23 items. G.S.Raishev is an
The idea of the human noospheric integrity that the first hunter’s face resembles a bear active grantor. He gave 1315 items as a gift to
as a cosmic being is very close to Raishev. In snout clearly. The world is lit with the funds, i.e. the largest part of Gallery’s museum
“Ugorsk Legend”, he recreates the rows of yellowish moonlight. Trees are placed in funds (painting, graphics, book editions with
ancestors’ generations thoroughly, covering a row as in the theatre backdrop. The soil illustrations and autographs, and others).
them with the protective dome of the earth. looks like a carpet dotted with stars and On the solemn opening of a new building in
In the cycle “A Person and the Outer Space”, flowers. The local decorative composition June 2011, the author presented 193 works to
he showed that our inhabited room (“A of the illustration is made in warm, the Gallery. The fund paintings represent the
Native Little Hill” is the name of his another ocherous-brownish relations. In Raishev’s artist’s creative period from late 1950-s to
picture) is floating in the behemoth Space art, animalistic motives are linked closely 2006.
depth. The life in all its hypostases is the to his people’s totemic views. The fish G.S. Raishev’s graphics kept in the Studio
highest value for a human being. The link worship is rooted in great antiquity. So we and Gallery is varied, according to the technics:
between all living creatures exists in the see Big Perch, Big Starlet, and Big Taimen colourful and black-and-white lino prints,
nature initially, under the Khanty thoughts. in Raishev’s canvas. His love to peckers, etching, experimental monotypies, watercolours,
Different kins have worshipped various sympathetic tricksters, that are black, drawings, and illustrations to the literary
primal forefathers, existing in the images of green, and red, is infectious. Before seeing classics, Ugorsk’s writers as well as poets.
animals or birds. The bear cult is common his lino print “The Pecker’s Spring Song”, Graphic sheets being in the Studio and
for the Khanty. The description of the Bear I did not suspect that it could chirrup so Gallery funds relate to the period of 1963 –
holiday and specific Khanty mythology expressively. 2011. In 2009, the museum fund had been
has been made by the Moldanovis. The The artist spends a lot of time in his filled up for the first time with book editions
texts of rituals, accompanying the hunting studio that is a gallery as well. He is illustrated by G.S. Raishev and published
preparation, the carrying of a dead bear preoccupied with children and meets various from 1976 to 2007. 24 books with the author’s
body, its slicing, the banquet organisation, spectators. The painter has participated in autographs, including new editions, the English
and finally, the burial of eating remnants M. Shemyakin’s and V. Gergiev’s projects; and Khunty ones were granted to the Studio
demonstrate an attitude to the ancestor as Y. Gerchuk has written about his book and Gallery by G.Raishev. Sokolova Z.P.,
to the creature that sacrifices itself for its illustrations. It is evident that he had enough Laptsuy L.V., Vagatova M.K., Shestalov Y.N.,
people’s feeding. strength to protect himself and to overcome Rugin R.P., Aypin Y.D., Krutogorov Y.A.,
The issue of “The Khanty Mythology” sceptics’ attitude who had kept him out of Kon’kova A.M., Vasilyev B.P., Tarkhanov
was welcomed with a great interest by zone and all-Russian exhibition and had not A.S., Omel’chuk A.K. are among the authors
experts in the Finno-Ugric studies. In permitted holding the personal one. of illustrated editions. The museum funds
one of the illustrations on the topic of G.S. Raishev became the Corresponding of the Studio and Gallery are the basis for
the Bear holiday, Raishev gives a current Member of the Russian Art Academy more the multiform exhibition, scientific, and
interpretation of what is going on. We see a than ten years ago. His art is not only familiar enlightening work of the institution.
bright performance where each bear bearer to both capitals of the Russian Federation Источник: http://www.hmao-museums.ru/
and the hero of the occasion are playing but also to many foreign countries. museum/ghm/filials/

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