From Saint Petersburg brought a unique collection of a Christian miniature to Veliky Novgorod "Adam's" masterful tin miniature. Her masters revive traditions of a volume sculpture which were widespread in Byzantium till the XII century. Work on a Christian collection goes for two decades and totals more than 250 unique miniatures. Reporting Shvedova Oksana.
In a workshop – the silence, soars in air a pleasant smell of an incense, on shelves the whole army of tiny figures is exposed. Over miniatures – only seven centimeters high – five people work: the artist, the sculptor, the designer, the founder and a formator – the one who makes a form of the sacred. Nemchenko Dimitri into a workshop of a Christian miniature brought a case. Happy as he speaks. Being the parishioner of the temple, once he saw an unusual exhibition of tiny tin products, and decided to learn to do same. Work laborious, engineering, speaks Nemchenko Dimitri, it is necessary to count each ledge, each detail.
"A sculpture volume, it is necessary to count each detail that everything turned out in a form, did not leave for edges", – he explains.
After a formator the founder which workplace is more similar to scientific laboratory starts working. Huge rack with forms, various adaptations for casting and special protection.
the Miniature, shows the founder Alexander Borisovich Korsak, not always it turns out from the first casting. Here it is important both heating temperature, and proportions of liquid substance, and even mood of the master.
After casting the ready model falls p into hands of the artist who not simply draws on the head of the size of a pea the person, but also manages to represent on it emotions, to transfer mood.
Today the collection of a workshop of "Adam" totals about 250 exhibits. Its best part will be presented to Novgorodians. It is symbolical that the history of creation of a masterful orthodox miniature in Saint Petersburg began with a figure of the Saint blessed prince Nevsky Alexander which first made as a gift. So to visit the Novgorod earth to masters and a collection, as they say, God ordered.