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Show 11 SPRING' VILLE HERALD, Section 2 Thursday, September 7, 2006 Four Russian artists exhibit at the Art Museum nfr-- ..r:, ...til . , . w i : ..-ira.. - --.u 1 . 1 S--- ft S3. 5 55 q"ic3 t. -si r -J Photo by Martin ConoverThe Springville Herald The CompUSA car readies for the the Discount Tire Sunchasser race held at the Miller Motorsports Park last Saturday in Tooele. The Discount Tire Sunchaser Daniel Souza STAFF WRITER ' TOOELE - Oswaldo Negri's first season win brought the Rolex Sports Car Series championship to a thrilling, fireworks-filled fireworks-filled close. It also' culminated culmi-nated Jorg, Bergmeister season awarding him the 2006 championship after the first-ever 9-hour endurance endur-ance race at Miller Motors-ports Motors-ports Park last Saturday. Negri, who started the race as the qualifying driver driv-er in fourth because of the long 9-hour racing period, pe-riod, drivers are required by regulation to switch every three hours managed man-aged with teammate Mark Patterson, to remain in the top ten throughout the race. The action became more intense as Negri's no. 60 Lexus pitted with no. 19 Ford Crawford, both before be-fore the race's overall leader lead-er no. 6 Lexus Riley. The fight for first place then became a personal matter between no. 60 and no. 19. "I had an animal behind me. It was like I was in Africa. The car was impeccable impec-cable and I had the power to do it," said an exhausted Negri. Although it was Negri and his Michael Shank team that won first place, the native German Jorg Bergmeister from Krohn Racing was the spotlight, becoming the champion of the 2006 Rolex sports Car Series. Bergmeister came to Tooele with a 19-point lead over second place Scott Pruett and Luis Diaz. The Slavic driver needed an attainable at-tainable fourteenth place finish to reach the top place at the championship chart. Bergmeister along with co- drivers Colin Braun and Nic Jonsson crossed the checkered-flag in sixth. The Discount Tire Sun-chaser Sun-chaser was the first ever 9-hour endurance race for both Miller Motorsports Park and the Rolex Sports Cars Series. Considering the track measures 4.5 miles, the cars drove for about 868.5 miles with average av-erage speeds raging from 72 mph to 96 mph range. Most vehicles would not be able to withstand the extreme braking and acceleration ac-celeration conditions these cars go through. Not in a normal situation. "The quality of equipment equip-ment that goes into these cars comes from aero space technology. Everything Every-thing they have in them is the top stuff in the market," mar-ket," said Jeff Campbell, a damper technician with the Chip Ganassi team. Campbell understands what aerospace technology technol-ogy really is. Before making mak-ing his way to the Lexus Riley Chip Ganassi team, Campbell who hadn't been back to Utah in the last ten years was a crew chief at Ogden's Hill Air force base. He oversaw most of the maintenance work for F-16s. "I loved living out here. Utah has some of the prettiest pret-tiest countryside in the states," said Campbell. -i-a. -? ---. i . ft ! . i . i Photo by Martin ConoverThe Springville Herald These race cars are specially made for the 9-hour endurance race. The cars drove for about 875 miles with speeds up to 96 mph. "Painters of the North: Stozharov, Popov, Pop-ov, Semenyuk and Maksyutov," an exhibit ex-hibit of four Russian artists, opens Sunday Sun-day at the Springville Museum of Art, and will be on display until October 15. In America during the nineteenth century cen-tury a number of artists were anxious to explore and record the true "West" while in its pristine condition before it became sullied by, as Maynard Dixon noted, "too many hotels." Just such an anxiety was felt by Russian Rus-sian artists during the 1960s with regard to the disappearing "Old North." Only in this case it wasn't the flood of population popula-tion coming into the region, but rather a demographic de-population collapse. No place in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the decline of inhabitants in-habitants more apparent than in the most northerly reaches of Russia. In the Karelia region, the ancient towns of Vasghort, Bolshaya, Pyssa and Muf-tuga, Muf-tuga, with their large log houses were becoming deserted. Because of low birthrates, birth-rates, high death rates or people leaving for better jobs in the south after internal passport restrictions were lifted in 1957, the area was inexorably returning to wilderness. wil-derness. This unique "Northern" folk culture was also being lost to modernization, changing the archaic ways and rhythms and homogenizing it to the rest of the country. Several Russian fine painters saw the beauty and charm of the landscape, villages, dress and handmade hand-made goods of this difficult diffi-cult northern clime. They were anxious to capture it in an artistic record before its forsaking, cultural cul-tural demise or contemporary contem-porary morphing lost its undefiled innocence and character. The most significant of these artists were the Muscovites: Mus-covites: Vladimir Stozharov, Stozha-rov, a member of the USSR Academy of Arts, Igor Popoy YurLJSemeny uk and' Rashid Maksytitovr They saw deeply embedded embed-ded in the "North" the true ancient Russian national values. They felt that too many traditional values 0 nil' ,i m iili.wi ill. T nmrrimM.tr were lost in the south. This exhibition highlights this feature which connects these four artists. But other works by them are seen as well. Igor Popov, for instance, has painted a brilliant Norman Rockwell-esque painting paint-ing of the courtyard outside his studio window. It also reminds one of Peter Brueghel the Elder's Children's Games in its "find Waldo" sense. Stozharov is also represented by a 'southern' masterwork entitled "Gingerbread "Ginger-bread Arcade" from the city of Kostroma. Kostro-ma. Paintings from the museum's collection collec-tion are augmented by works lent from numerous private collections from Utah and the The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota. LENDER INSURANCE INC. (ML Highest Standards of Professional Service , 382 W. Center Street - Orem www.lenderins.com ?Car Service Made Smarter" msassm IFF $5 FREE Tire Rotation with oil change. Reg. $24.95: Sale Price $19.95 Expires 123106 I Reg. $99.95; Sale Price $79.95 With $10 Mail-in-Rebate Expires 123106 I I I Service Hours: M-F 8am-6pm Appointment recommended but not required. 1715W.500S. 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