ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIAN FEDERATION.- (PRWEB)A large collection of sculptures of internationally know sculptor Angel Orensanz were floating and flowing yesterday over the waters of the River Neva in front of the Rumyantzev Palace, in the heart of St. Petersburg, between the Hermitage and the Bay of Finland.

This temporary “occupation” of the Neva is part of the spectacular exhibition of artist Angel Orensanz organized by the Friends of the Russian Museum at the Rumyantzev Palace. The show is called “Earth: Death-Birth”; it opened in Moscow at the Alexander Pushkin Museum May 2. This show will be open to the public until the end of June.

In the exhibition in the museum and on the river Neva, Orensanz brings out the dramatic tension that people experience between our roots in nature and the endless metropolitan expansions. The flow of the Neva River reflects the glory of St. Petersburg and the its travails, comparable to the ones of Venice, Hong Kong and New York. “These are sculptures inside the Museum and on the waters of the Neva, resonate with the cry of the earth and its whirl and swirl of the Earth,” commented in the Museum Dimitry Shagin, founder of the group Mitiki.

On view are sculptures, paintings and drawings produced by Orensanz during the last 10 years, plus “The Orensanz Portfolio,” courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, a compilation of 10 video pieces of Orensanz, directed and edited by Donna Cameron.

The exhibition presents sculpture, paintings and drawings, plus “The Orensanz Portfolio,” courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. “The Orensanz Portfolio” is an ongoing compilation of video pieces directed and edited by Donna Cameron and distributed worldwide by the Film and Media Department of MoMa.

At the opening ceremony, Orensanz received the Culture and Arts Award of the City of St Petersburg for his many contributions to the arts and culture of the City.

A fully illustrated catalogue with 120 pages in color is available to the public. It carries texts by Robert C. Morgan, of Alexander Pushkin (19th century) and of Andrei Voznesinsky, the contemporary poet and admirer of the work of Angel Orensanz.