During the meeting, we'll discuss how an artist expresses this thoughts through the form and how life circumstances impact the making of a creator. Through statues and figures exist in a material reality and one can touch them if he or she wants, they still remain a thing in itself. How does one interpret sculpture? How does one appreciate it? And why is it pointless to form any impressions of sculpture through photographs? We’ll take a look at Vadim Sidur’s art as a unique example of a sincere statement, plastically contemplation and a tragic perspective of human civilization.

Our lecturer

Pavel Ignatiev is a sculptor, art conservator and scholar. He's the author of the monument to Domenico Trezzini in St. Petersburg, as well as other sculptures in a whole number of different cities. Mr. Ignatiev recreated and restored sculpture on St. Petersburg iconic buildings, such as the Admiralty, Mikhailovsky Palace (the Russian Museum) and the Winter Palace. He wrote and published a number of works on sculpture in the 20th century. His works were acquired by the State Russian Museum and the Museum of Urban Sculpture.