The exhibition of children’s drawings from the international youth contest “The Worlds of Master Erzia” will be opened on the 24th of September in the framework of the Art Festival “The Dialogues with Time”. The artworks will be shown in the house-museum of the writer Vladimir Korolenko. The exhibition will run till the 15th of November.
Erzia International Art Foundation
In the Erzia Foundation restoration is performed by Alexander Tolokin, a specialist, who started his professional career at the Mordovian Erzia Museum of Fine Arts located in the sculptor’s native town, the capital of Mordovia, Saransk, where he worked with the Erzia collection for 18 years. In the course of his longstanding activities, A. Tolokin developed his own unique technology to preserve and restore subtropical trees quebracho, algarrobo and urunday, which was recognized and approved by experts of the Grabar Art Conservation Center and the State Russian Museum.