The exhibition presents Yuri Zharkikh gallery "Vellum"

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Gallery "Vellum" is a solo exhibition of paintings by Yuri hot: the legendary underground artist St. Petersburg, the founder of "Gazonevschiny" and one of 12 organizers and participants of the Bulldozer Exhibition in Moscow

Yuri Zharkikh. Paintings and drawings. from November 21 to December 1
Address: Ul. Prechistenka 30 /2, gallery-center "Artifact"

The exhibition nonconformist artists Yuri Zharkikh - organizer, along with Rukhin and Rabin, "Bulldozer Exhibition", the only physically injured "unofficial" artists abroad 1960 - 1970. - Will be presented about 30 works. The artist's works hard to fit under the framework of pure surrealism or postekspressionizma - a dynamic, highly cultured products that transmit nerve of the universe and man, with his internal world and relationships with the outside world and their own kind. This is done with the thoroughness of European and Russian emotionality.

Gallery "Vellum" presents the work of artist Yuri roast on the Moscow art market is not the first time. After a break of thirty-five (!) After the Bulldozer Exhibition, in 2008, was organized by his personal exhibition at the Central House of Artists, and in St. Petersburg in the same 2008-th year, the Peter and Paul Fortress, an exhibition of the "Alphabet of the poet."

Yuri Zharkikh was born in 1938. He graduated from the Higher Industrial Art School named. VI Fly in Leningrad (1967). In the 1970's Zharkikh - one of the leaders of Soviet unofficial art, the organizer of the first exhibitions of artists in the Leningrad underground in DC Strip (1974) and DC "Nevsky" (1975), a member of the famous Bulldozer Exhibition (1974) in Moscow. On his initiative in late 1975 were created Association of experimental exhibitions (TeV), which brought together non-conformist artists. Because of the prosecution authorities had emigrated to Germany, then France, where he lives and works more than 30 years.

Zharkikh - exponents of more than 150 solo and group exhibitions in Barcelona, Bonn, Brussels, London, Monte Carlo, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Zurich and other cities.

"High art Zharkikh introduced into the space of postmodernist strange little or no loss, being able to enrich their underexposed synthesis estetizirovannoy, partly brutal, partly philosophical irony and the true professional gloss. The simplicity and wisdom of the parables he gets along with the ruthless invasion of the innermost secrets of not only matter, but our ideas about it "- Michael HERMAN, Doctor of Arts, Chief Scientific Officer of the State Russian Museum.

Creativity Yuri Zharkikh with unequivocal depth author's individuality developed and continues to evolve under the powerful influence of the traditions of Russian avant-garde and German expressionism. Close to the "analytical realism" Pavel Filonov method allows the artist to him through the many strata of material to consider the true spirituality of the world, man.