Sergey Kubasov

The Museum of the Academy of Art.

Sergey Kubasov was considered a national artist of Russia and was the professor of Academy of Arts.  Unfortunately this exhibition coincided with the anniversary of his death.

The display of his art is surprising - considering the wide range of creative interests the excellent sculptor is showing: from lyrical portraits, chamber compositions,  memorial sculptures up to his famous monumental plastics. Kubasov is a well  known St. Petersburg sculptor who worked together with the equally well-known artist Anikuschin about creating monumental - heroic projects. One of the most significant work of this exhibition became a monument "Heroic defenders of Leningrad" which is shown in the show. In fact, this exhibition is dated also to the 60-th anniversary of reversal of blockade.

Most of the time the sculptor worked in historical genre. His heroes are soldiers of great patriotic war themes ("Partisan Glory ",  Luga, 1975), builders of  the city Komsomolsk - on -Amur ("To First builders of  Komsomolsk- on–Amur ", the Far East, 1932), great writers and figures of the Soviet and Russian culture: Ostrovsky (Sochi, 1972), Dzerzginsky (St. Petersburg, 1982), Dostoevsky and Stanislavsky (both in China, before the Shanghai university).  His projects of the monuments of  "Alexander Nevsky" and "The Monument of the October revolution " in  St. Petersburg were not realized at that time. But the projects are now presented at the exhibition.

The sculptures of animals were just as important go Kubasov than his other themes. The sculptural group "Wind" attracts our attention by his boldness of a plan and by internal confidence.

His students Andrey Novikov and Vyacheslav Kovalenko are now continuing the sculptural school of their famous teacher in the honorable workshop of  Kubasov at the Academy of Arts.