"Touch". Exhibition of works by Evgeny Okinshevich Automatic translate

On July 19, 2016 at 17. 00 in the MVK PAX Gallery of Arts Zurab Tsereteli (Prechistenka, 19) the grand opening of the exhibition of paintings by a member of the Union of Architects of Russia, a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, a candidate of architecture, professor MARCHI, a corresponding member of the International Academy of Culture and Art - Eugene Anatolyevich Okinshevich “Touch”.

Pink day. 1994 oil on canvas

Evgeny Okinshevich - belongs to a cohort of architects and artists. For many years he has been teaching painting at the Moscow Architectural Institute. At the same time, Okinshevich is a practicing architect, the author of a number of projects and buildings, monumental and decorative works, research and development in the field of architectural color, and a laureate of many awards in the field of architecture. The artist admits that in his life he could not make a choice in favor of painting or architecture.

E. A. Okinshevich was born on January 29, 1948 in the city of Krasnogorovka, Donetsk Region. Graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy). In 1978-1980 he taught at the Department of Painting of the Moscow Architectural Institute, and from 1995 to the present he is a professor in the department.

Okinshevich is a participant in many major Russian and foreign exhibitions. The artist’s works are in private collections and galleries in Russia and abroad: in the USA (Tommy Thompson Gallery, Houston), Sweden (Intimate Gallery, Stockholm), Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Kuwait, Poland.

Alley. oil on canvas

The architectural beginning, the tendency to color and light expression determined the features of the artist’s creative style in his earliest works. An important feature of the paintings of Yevgeny Okinshevich is also a powerful and at the same time light airspace, which the artist always devotes a lot of space on his canvases. The compositions of most of the works are often not completely filled, the air environment created by color and light plays an independent emotional role in them (Inversion, 1990, Launch of the Serpent, 1996).

The ability to convey the invisibly invisible is one of the distinguishing features of the paintings of Evgeny Okinshevich. Images on the canvases, born to life by the artist’s personal experiences and associations, appear as if under the influence of an otherworldly force, which, like a powerful energetic wind, arranges strokes of paint on the canvas in accordance with a certain rhythm. This is the inner movement of the artist’s soul (“internal impulse”, in his own expression), which dictates the color, rhythm, composition of the future canvas to his hand.

Okinshevich is the heir to the European tradition of colorism. Accepting the paintings of Kandinsky and Dufy, Cezanne and Pollock, Okinshevich created his own painting style, easily recognizable in the postmodern space of modern art. Its free, light, transparent and at the same time dense, saturated with expressive-rhythmic strokes, picturesque construction of the picture created a feeling of dynamic movement, flight.

Evening in orange. 1993-1994 oil on canvas

In a conversation about his work, the artist often mentions a connection with the Cosmos: “Painting, especially expressive, arising on the canvas with impulses, responds to cosmic rhythm. The energy of the Cosmos at the time of writing the picture is transmitted (penetrates) into the pictorial fabric and remains (accumulated) in it, “going out” to the viewer when it is contemplated… ”

In recent years, Okinshevich has increasingly preferred a lyrical abstraction. You can peer into these works, as if into a bowl of cancer, forever, forgetting about time, discovering more and more new galaxies of the metaphysical space of the artist’s universe. It was in these works that the artist showed interest in color with renewed vigor. He works with local open colors, the life-affirming harmony of which is taken for granted (Carnival of the Forest, 2012, White Dance, 2014, Overcoming the Horizon, 2015). Their sonority, created by wide free strokes, becomes even deeper, more expressive, more expressive. The impression that the artist over time liberates himself in his painting technique, surrendering to the free flow of feelings and thoughts. His works are distinguished by musicality, the theme of music has always been present in them (Polyphonic Landscape, 1990, Cantata, 2013, Cantata 2, 2014, etc.).

The exposition includes more than a hundred works of different years, which will allow the viewer to fully appreciate the artist’s work.

The star has fallen. 1994 oil on canvas

Forest elegy. 2015 oil on canvas