III Festival of Photographic and Fine Arts “Objective Perspective” starts in Serpukhov

The idea of the festival is to return to the origins, to the work of two masters, whose friendship became an example of a creative union. We are talking about the pictorial photographer Nikolai Platonovich Andreev and the artist Alexander Andreevich Buzovkin, who in the first half of the XX century lived and worked in Serpukhov. Their works, combining documentary and poetry, sound new. The festival aims to revive a tradition where photography complements painting rather than confronts it.

The exposition is divided into four themes: “Serpukhov – Science City”, “Image with History”, “Traditions and Modernity in Culture and Science”, “Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia”. Artists and photographers seek commonalities that connect past and present, science and art, personality and society. The works are presented in three nominations: portrait, still life and landscape. Here you can see a variety of approaches: someone captures in the portrait a subtle emotion, someone through a still life tells the story of things, and in the landscape conveys the breath of time.

Among the participants – as novice artists, making their first steps, and experienced masters, whose names are known in the professional environment, as well as amateur photographers, for whom the camera is a way to notice the important. Talent knows no age and inspiration knows no boundaries.

Behind the project are people for whom art is not an abstraction, but everyday work and responsibility. In the organizing committee of the festival: Elena Kotova, Director of the Children's Art School named after A. A. Buzovkin; Maria Pankratieva, Chairman of the Serpukhov Branch of the Union of Journalists, Director of UIA "Serpukhov News Agency"; Yuri Surkov, photo artist and member of the Union of Journalists.

The festival is held with the support of the Serpukhov News Agency and is organized on the basis of the Museum and Exhibition Center.

Visitors will be able not only to see the variety of photographs and paintings, but also to feel how the traditions of the past continue to live in modern art. Entrance to the exhibition is free.