About the Exhibition

The Chuvash National Museum has opened the region's first solo exhibition of works by Nikolai Egorovich Dronnikov — an artist, sculptor, and publisher who spent most of his life in France. The exhibition “A Russian Master in Paris” is dedicated to his longstanding friendship with the poet Gennady Aygi.

Most of the featured works are directly linked to Aygi’s poetic world: portraits, painterly interpretations of poems, and art objects engraved with lines from his poetry. According to the museum’s director Irina Menshikova, “Dronnikov didn’t just paint Aygi himself, he created a visual embodiment of his poetry. His paintings are not illustrations, but a candid dialogue between the artist and the poet.”

The exhibition includes not only graphics and paintings, but also rare editions of Dronnikov’s artist’s books, where word and image merge into a unified artistic whole. Many of the works contain lines from Aygi’s poem “A Bow to the Singing”, lending the exhibition a particular poetic depth.

This exhibition is not merely a cultural event — it is a visual embodiment of literary memory and subtle creative resonance.

📎 Learn more on the museum website:  chnmuseum.ru/news/4219