Sculpture of small forms, with a concentrated plastic, coming from the style of Moore, Sidur, Silis, peculiarly refracts the Russian folk traditions of wooden sculpture and combines them with the terse brevity of modern stylistics.
Oriental motifs are interweaving into the Slavic imagery as well as features of magical realism, forcing one to think about associations with the art of power: ancient amulets and ancestor totems.
The sculptor was born in 1951 in Vorkuta (Russia). He studied at the Arkhangelsk Technical School of Communications.
Participated in the annual exhibitions of Vorkuta from 1991 to 1997.
He lives in the village of Orlovskie Dvoriki, Dzerzhinsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia
The main exhibitions of the sculptor:
- Personal exhibition in Vorkuta (1995)
- Personal exhibition in the gallery “Russian Century” (Nizhny Novgorod, 1996)
- Exhibition of Nizhny Novgorod avant-garde (Nizhny Novgorod, NGVK, 1998)
- Regional exhibition “The Big Volga” (Nizhny Novgorod Fair, 1998)
- Personal exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (Jersey City, New York, 1998)
- Exhibition “Young Artists of Russia” (Zalman Gallery, New York, 1999)
- Mobile exhibition “Contemporary Russian Art” (Simferopol – Kharkov, Ukraine, 1999)
- The First Biennale of Contemporary Russian Graphics and Sculpture (Jersey City, New York, 1999)
- Personal exhibition in the gallery “Russian Century” (Nizhny Novgorod, 2000)
- The Second Biennial of Contemporary Russian Graphics and Sculpture (Jersey City, Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, New York, 2002)
- The exhibition-auction “Russia to America” (New York, Grant Gallery, 2002)
- Corporate exhibition “High Voltage” (Nizhny Novgorod, 2002)
October 2019: Exhibition in New Britain, Connecticut
The New Britain Public Library welcomes the exhibition of Nikolay Pogorelov work:
