Stanislav Azarov’s Industrial Landscapes exhibition opens at the Seven Winds Foundation

We at TFC are happy to present a new artist, Stanislav Azarov, who has recently joined our gallery’s roster. His inaugural 2022 solo exhibition just opened at the Seven Winds Charitable Foundation in Volgograd, Russia at the 1890 Loft building, a perfect location for the artist’s Industrial Landscapes paintings series.

The exhibition encompasses paintings and graphics created by the artist in 2020-2021 and represents a completely separate and so far publicly unknown aspect of Azarov’s work.

While unprecedented in terms of the subject matter, the Industrial Landscapes exposition visitors will also have a unique opportunity to explore artist’s more not often employed “traditional” artistic techniques - oil, acrylic, cardboard, pencil and paper.

The title of the exhibition accurately reflects the contents of the works at display as they are made up of factory buildings, elevators and other industrial facilities. Factories, an often depicted subject, were typical for pre- and post-war European and Russian painters, including Merker, Brooke, Holmes, Buffet] as well as Ryazhsky, Semyonov, Yablokov, Tartakovsky, Koblov. As this subject matter disappears from our lives in our "post-industrial" age, it has practically disappeared from the canvases as well.

For Azarov, factory landscapes presented at the exhibition are landscapes created from the relics of the bygone industrial age era where these massive objects appear more like heavy shadows. The works present an artistic juxtaposition to Azarov’s dream-like world of "elephants, angels and people” that is his primary artistic focus and that has earned him a great following.

The current exhibition is a prelude to two upcoming parallel expositions set to introduce two main aspects of the artist’s oeuvre later this year. More specifically, a comic book style series exhibition in Helsinki, Finland and another concurrent exhibition at the Seven Wind Foundation that will serve as an intro to the artist’s main subject matter - his world of elephants and angels.

The exhibition continues through February 12,2022.