On the eve of the New Year holidays, December 27, DiDi Gallery presented the residents of Petersburg with an extraordinary gift. Opened exhibition one of the most famous masters of "naive" art Pavela Leonova (1920–2011). In St. Petersburg, Leonov's works are being exhibited for the first time.
The artist's work is connected to the folk tradition, archetypes of Soviet mass consciousness, and the art of the 1970s underground. His painting embodies Russian folk mythology, where rulers, writers, literary heroes, and Christian images unite in an unusual pantheon that forms a kaleidoscope of our cultural background.
The works of Pavel Petrovich Leonov are in museum collections such as the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Charlotte Zander Museum in Germany, the Museum of Russian Lubok and Naive Art in Moscow, and the Croatian National Gallery.
You can find detailed information and read an article about the exhibition at in the "Exhibitions" section.
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