The Form & Bronze Gallery participated in "Art Russia 2025," the largest Russian contemporary art fair and international art forum, bringing together gallerists, artists, collectors, and art market experts in the heart of Moscow. The gallery's task at such events is to present the best achievements and prospects for the development of contemporary sculpture to professionals and the general public. The fair was held at a high level, with the organizers impressing with their clarity of action. Particularly pleasing was the interest in contemporary art and sculpture, expressed by the visitors of "Art Russia."
The concept of the gallery's stands was inspired by the poem "Metamorphoses" by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, which celebrates "bodies transformed into forms." "In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora" / "The spirit drives me to sing of bodies transformed into forms," wrote Ovid. Transformations, changes, and illusions became the themes of the works. In the creations of the gallery's iconic artist Arsen Avetissian, jesters and kings, gondoliers and masks from the Venetian carnival intertwine in an endless theatrical celebration of life, imbued with a serious philosophical subtext and profound meanings. In the works of his father, Albert Avetissian, ideal female bodies are filled with vitality, seemingly embodying the power of love and nature. In contrast, Andrey Belle's female ideal is refined and sophisticated. Delicate and fragile beauties emerged from the gallery's launched project "Two Facets of Creativity," where artists reinterpreted their painted works into sculpture.
A revelation for the public at "Art Russia 2025" was the sculptures of the gallery's new artist, Anastasia Matsueva. Her beautiful horses transform into musical instruments in the hands of equally beautiful riders. The Akhal-Teke horse, which became the artist's source of inspiration, is mounted by a young maiden like a harp with resonant strings, while a bold young man conquers the wild dance of an unruly stallion like a guitar.
Krasnodar artist Viktor Mosilev, winner of the international Form & Bronze competition dedicated to ballet, uses the metaphor of creative explosion in each image. The leap, the ascent, the very form bursts apart under the pressure of energy surging from within. Sculptor Alexandra works both in traditional techniques and using computer programs. Embodied in bronze, her ballerinas defy gravity, while the White Swan Odette from the ballet "Swan Lake" transforms into her treacherous shadow, the Black Swan Odile. Among the characters of Aramare Vecchio are dancers and musicians, residents of exotic countries, cultural figures, and ordinary antique dealers... Dramatic, sad, or evoking a cheerful smile, the images unfold like a fan, symbolizing the cycle of the Sun and Moon, or are composed of jagged broken lines in a Jazz style.
Young Mongolian-Russian sculptor Sanchir turns to archaic images of national culture. His world, where people coexist with fantastic beings, gods, and demons, unfolds like a rhythmic ritual: dance, sports competitions, and wild races. Other Form & Bronze artists also draw on Eastern motifs. The mysterious sorceresses of Belarusian author Andrey Ostashov freeze in a half-sleep and hang in the air, absorbed in meditation and the search for Nirvana. Meanwhile, the winged mountain spirits of sculptor and climber Sergey Kondrashkin spring upward like clouds of smoke or djinns, breaking free from their thousand-year confinement.
By presenting the works of its artists, the Form & Bronze Gallery once again confirmed that art exists as a continuous flow of changing and infinitely variable artistic forms and perceptions. Relying on the canons of art from all times and peoples, and revolutionarily transforming the familiar constants, contemporary art creates its own mode of expression, new content, and artistically explores the very nature of transformation.
