The exhibition "Return to the Summer Garden" opened in St. Petersburg on 17 May. The exposition will be available until September 7, 2012. The Gallery of the Imperial Porcelain Factory displays works by contemporary authors dedicated to the Summer Garden and other sights of the city.
Instructions
Step 1
Visit the exhibition "Return to the Summer Garden" in the Gallery of Contemporary Porcelain Art of the Imperial Porcelain Factory (Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue, 151). The exhibition is dedicated to the long-awaited opening after the reconstruction of the famous garden of the northern capital - one of the symbols of St. Petersburg.
Step 2
The theme of the city on the Neva is one of the main themes in the work of the artists of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. The company's craftsmen copy engravings with landscapes of St. Petersburg on porcelain, paint decorative items and make souvenir sculptures on their own. Plates by Nelly Petrova and Tatiana Afanasyeva, boxes by Yuri Zhgirov, tea and coffee sets by Serafima Bogdanova and Galina Shulyak, and statuettes by Elvira Eropkina and Olga Belova-Weber are very popular among collectors.
Step 3
Find out what underglaze and overglaze porcelain painting and biscuit plastic are in the production of tableware and souvenirs. Explore the modern and antiques provided by the Heritage Foundation to the gallery. Check out Tatiana Charina's photographs of the Summer Garden. Pictures complement the exposure.
Step 4
Read the entries in the guestbook. Some of the plant employees attended the presentation of the exhibition. Porcelain specialists and connoisseurs of this art movement shared their impressions of the event, recalling the lines of Derzhavin and Pushkin, Akhmatova and Vertinsky.
Step 5
The exhibition at the Gallery of Contemporary Porcelain Art of the Imperial Porcelain Factory is open daily from 10.00 to 19.00 (closed on Sunday). Phone - (812) 326-1743, e-mail - [email protected]. The entrance is free.
