Petr Shvetsov
Petr Shvetsov divides his time between St. Petersburg Russia and South Royalton Vermont. He works in painting, installations, and creates objects relating to history and the persistence of memory.
He has exhibited at State Russian Museum, State Hermitage Museum (2004). His “Columbarium Project” was shown at the State Geological Museum, St Petersburg. And his work has been exhibited at "Nördlich Kunst/северное искусство/North Art" in Rensburg, Germany. Yugoslavia and other European venues.
Last year, 2009, Mr. Shvetsov installed a collection of relics associated with the live of Alexander Pushkin in the Main Street Museum's commodious front rooms, and was the host of a "Pushkin Party" featuring digital images, lectures and much reciting of Pushkin's poems in both English and Russian. At the same time exhibiting the largest painting of the poet in America on the front of the building here in White River Junction. In 2008 he installed "Pandora's Box" featuring flies, and two columns featuring human faces in the Main Street Museum.
His work resides comfortably in various public venues, as well as the Main Street Museum, fi: the Russian National Library, the New York Public Library, the British Library, the Sakson State Library, Dresden, City of Odense, Denmark, Institute of Contemporary Russian Culture, Los Angeles, University of Iowa Library at Iowa City, the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin at Madison to name but a few.
