Ceremonial gathering dedicated to Ilya Repin
A ceremonial gathering dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the birth of the eminent Russian painter Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844-1930-2019) will be held at the SASA Grand Hall, on Monday, 23 December, at 11 a.m.
More than three decades ago (December 1986 – February 1987) SASA Gallery organized the exhibition Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930). This time, a less-known part of the opus of the renowned master and his relation to our region will be featured, as well as the video material from the RTS archives and SASA Gallery records. Repin’s works from the collections of the National Museum in Belgrade and Belgrade Military Museum will also be displayed.
Academician Dušan Otašević, deputy secretary of the SASA Department of Visual Arts and Music will give a welcome address. Following that, Tatjana Borodina, the director of the Museum ‘Estate of I.Ye.Repin – Penates’ will give a speech on the topic ‘Late Repin’, while the lecture titled ‘Two Heroes on One Canvass. The Secret of I. Repin’s Painting from the Collection of Belgrade Military Museum’ will be delivered by Irina Guskova, the president of V. A. Telyakovsky Fund from Moscow.
‘Illya Repin and the Grand Exhibition of Russian Art in Belgrade in 1930’ is the title of the lecture by Professor Emeritus Irina Subotić, followed by the lecture on the reception of Repin’s painting in the Serbian public at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century delivered by Nenad Makuljević, professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Jelena Mežinski Milovanović, deputy director of the SASA Gallery, will give a talk titled ‘Repin in Kuokkala and his Pupils in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia’.
A distinguished portrait painter, Illya Repin was educated at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg where he later worked as a professor – and then he resided in Italy and Paris. He is the main representative of realism in the Russian painting of the 19th century, also being the founder of Russian colourism. He was a member of the Serbian Royal Academy. He had a major impact on the younger generations of artists. He died in 1930, in Kuokkala (the place was renamed Repino to honour Illya Repin), where his memorial museum Penates is located.