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Lectures and meetings within
the framework of the international program During the period from 9 through 14 October 2005 the State Hermitage provided the venue for meetings between young people of the city and the artist Jean Lancri, Professor in the Department of Fine Arts of the Sorbonnne (Paris, France). The program was organized by the State Hermitage’s Youth Center jointly with the General Consulate of France, the French Institute in St Petersburg and the Center for Modern Art of Kaliningrad. Beginning in 1970, Jean Lancri has had more than 40 one-man exhibitions. He has visited many countries, including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chili, Great Britain,, Spain, India, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey and the USA. The main objective of the lectures, which were held in the Hermitage Theatre and in the Hermitage’s Youth Center, was to explain the role and symbolic value of gestures and in particular movements of the index finger of the main personages appearing in painting compositions. Jean Lancri tries to show that the index finger is always one of the chief centers of meaning in the work of art. By way of example he has chosen four works of art relating to different ages and different schools of painting. Among the masters from the past who have interested Lancri are Manet, Fragonard, Matisse, and Klee. From 12 through 23 October 2005 the Exhibition Hall in the Youth Center is displaying works from the series Cheval on a Bicycle and parts of Collections of the Post Delivery Man Cheval. Lancri started working on the series of graphics around 15 years ago, when he noticed that the word V.E.L.O. ("bicycle" in conversational French) is an anagram of the word L.O.V.E. in English. Since the time when Lancri first presented his Post Delivery Man Cheval for exhibition in Brussels, his hero has “cycled on his bike or VELO across seven different countries and become widely known at a variety of festivals of modern art. Finally he has made it to Russia! |
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