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Autumn 2006 is extremely warm in Saint-Petersburg, and one of the unique places where You can find icebergs and snow fields is painting exhibition "North" at Gallery of Tretyakov. Exhibition will be opened tomorrow - December 1, 2006, and today exhibition is mounted by means of step ladder, scissors, rope spool and four hands.
Paintings exposed here were created by Petr Reykhet more than 20 years ago in artic expeditions. Yet learning in Academy of Arts Petr lived six months at Franz Josef Land in 1976. In 1980 he visited Severnaya Zemlya and took part in soviet arctic expedition "North Pole-22". Naturally, everywhere he painted - by pencils, pastels, watercolors, oils. After Severnaya Zemlya he painted 5 canvas for diploma of Academy of Arts, which were accepted by Arctic and Antarctic Museum in Leningrad rather to collect dust in collection of Academy of Arts. His last visit to Arctic was in 1987, when he explored Bennet Island.
It is second Petr Reykhet paintings exhibition at Gallery of Tretyakov. First one was organized in 2005 and demonstarted paintings of Petr Reykhet and Victor Reykhet, his father.
Behind the scene : how this panorama was made
Caption in Russian (Перевод на русский язык) - Галерея Третьякова
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