"A thousand days of silence": A personal exhibition of the artist Izya Smirnov will open in Karaganda

The personal exhibition of the artist Izya Smirnov "A Thousand Days of Silence" will open in the Karaganda Regional Museum of Fine Arts on February 1. The painter, a native of Karaganda, is exhibited in his hometown for the first time.

Izya Smirnov has been fond of drawing since a young age. According to him, the love of fine art was instilled in him by the teacher of art history of the Karaganda Children's Art School V. Malyshev.

Izya studied theater painting at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T. Zhurgenov and easel painting at Almaty State University. He is a frequent participant of exhibitions held in Almaty and Astana.

The project "A Thousand Days of Silence" will feature 50 paintings in the genres of landscape, portrait, still life and abstract painting. Izya Smirnov experiments a lot and works in the styles of documentary realism, expressionism, postmodernism, abstraction and cubism.

The opening day starts at 16:00.

The exhibition will last until February 12.