Author: Jaroslav Xenophonov
The founder of the Creative Union "TERRA FABERUS", who united the masters working in the technique of the blocked stone-cutting miniature, where he becomes the leader in this direction of creativity. Since 2010 actively works with a monochrome stone, preferring to create sophisticated in plastic and semantic overtones of the work. Repeated prize-winner and diploma of the International Jeweler Olympus stone-cutting art competition. Y. Xenofontov's works are in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, the contemporary art museum Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the Mineralogical Museum RAS. Fersman, private collections in Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Australia.
About work
This work was exhibited at an exhibition during the Faberge Conference in October 2015 at the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as at an exhibition at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum A.E. from November 2016 to the present. Published in the catalog - Best Russian Artists Decoratively Applied Art - 2017.
Collection: Maximilian Art Foundation
The Maximilian Art Foundation's collection of stone-cut works is among the most magnificent and significant in Russia, with more than 80 sculptures collected over 25 years. It includes the foremost masters of the St. Petersburg and German schools.
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Author: Vyacheslav Leontiev
St. Petersburg stone-cutter, works in this form of creativity relatively recently, but already managed to win the reputation of a first-class master in the professional community.
About work
This work won a distinguished award at the International Stone-cutting Competition "Jewelry Olympus". It balances between the figurative and abstract plastic language, distinguished by its painstaking and delicate carving along the whole piece of carnelian and its ability to identify and emphasize the natural properties of the stone.
Collection: Maximilian Art Foundation
The Maximilian Art Foundation's collection of stone-cut works is among the most magnificent and significant in Russia, with more than 80 sculptures collected over 25 years. It includes the foremost masters of the St. Petersburg and German schools.
