The exhibition hall “Ivan Goncharov’s Characters in the Modern World” houses modern paintings and sculptures, associated with the writer, his books and characters. It includes a few bronze sculptures by Igor Zamedyansky. One of them portrays Ivan Goncharov in a way that closely resembles his book character Ilya Ilyich Oblomov: he sits in a comfortable chair, dressed in a robe and slippers.
Igor Zamedyansky was born in 1960 in Kaliningrad. At the age of 13, he entered the Leningrad Secondary Art School under the USSR Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin. Later, he transferred to the Moscow Secondary Art School under the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Vasily Surikov. He would eventually stay in this institute to continue his education.
The bronze sculpture of Ivan Goncharov became Igor Zamedyansky’s final year project. It was highly praised by the committee headed by the Russian sculptor Alexander Kibalnikov, who created the monumental sculpture of Vladimir Mayakovsky in Moscow. Kibalnikov fit his approval of the young sculptor into one phrase, “Here is a future good Russian sculptor.” The project sculpture was later acquired by the USSR Ministry of Culture for the Ulyanovsk Museum of Local History, and also served as a prototype for the monument dedicated to the writer, which was erected in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region.
Between 1985 and 1990, the Ulyanovsk Museum of Local History funds received a few more works by Igor Zamedyansky, which included two sculptures of Ivan Goncharov, as well as bronze sculptures of a Russian writer Dmitry Grigorovich, and Russian poets Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Yazykov, Ivan Dmitriyev.
By the end of the 1990s, the sculptor’s style changed. He broke from the traditions of realism and started experimenting with shapes and compositions. Zamedyansky believed that “when it comes to modern art, the notions of ‘similar’ and ‘not similar’, as well as ‘beautiful’ and ‘not beautiful’ cease to be important.”
Igor Zamedyansky was born in 1960 in Kaliningrad. At the age of 13, he entered the Leningrad Secondary Art School under the USSR Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin. Later, he transferred to the Moscow Secondary Art School under the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Vasily Surikov. He would eventually stay in this institute to continue his education.
The bronze sculpture of Ivan Goncharov became Igor Zamedyansky’s final year project. It was highly praised by the committee headed by the Russian sculptor Alexander Kibalnikov, who created the monumental sculpture of Vladimir Mayakovsky in Moscow. Kibalnikov fit his approval of the young sculptor into one phrase, “Here is a future good Russian sculptor.” The project sculpture was later acquired by the USSR Ministry of Culture for the Ulyanovsk Museum of Local History, and also served as a prototype for the monument dedicated to the writer, which was erected in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region.
Between 1985 and 1990, the Ulyanovsk Museum of Local History funds received a few more works by Igor Zamedyansky, which included two sculptures of Ivan Goncharov, as well as bronze sculptures of a Russian writer Dmitry Grigorovich, and Russian poets Alexander Pushkin, Nikolay Yazykov, Ivan Dmitriyev.
By the end of the 1990s, the sculptor’s style changed. He broke from the traditions of realism and started experimenting with shapes and compositions. Zamedyansky believed that “when it comes to modern art, the notions of ‘similar’ and ‘not similar’, as well as ‘beautiful’ and ‘not beautiful’ cease to be important.”
