Exhibition "Alexey Zhabsky. Fate on Canvas" Automatic translate

Personal exhibition A.A. Zhabsky (1933-2008) presents a collection of the author’s works donated to ROSIZO by the widow of master L.M. Zhabsky in the year of the 85th anniversary of the artist. This collection, consisting of 146 works, most fully demonstrates the periods of creativity of an outstanding Russian artist, which distinguishes himself among other museum collections of works by this author.

At the exhibition “Alexey Zhabsky. Fate on Canvas ”presents more than a hundred paintings and drawings that consistently and comprehensively illuminate the artist’s creative path: from picturesque student experiences while studying at the State Art Institute. V.I. Surikova until the late work of the 2000s.

The composition of the exhibition includes a small painting “One”, which can be considered programmatic: in an enclosed space, the workshop depicts the artist himself with his back to the audience sitting in front of an empty canvas. On the easel next to him is a finished painting - his famous landscape “The Corner of Old Moscow”. A blank canvas attracts the viewer’s eyes - we look over the artist’s shoulder to where he, far from momentary life, begins to create his ideal reality.

Historical compositions and sketches for them, portrait cycles, landscapes of Uglich and Moscow, still lifes and drawings from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Union of Artists of Russia, the Russian State Art Gallery, the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture and the funds of the artist’s family - represent Zhabsky as a wonderful painter and draftsman masterfully owning different graphic techniques.

About the artist:

Alexey Alexandrovich Zhabsky was born on March 20, 1933 in the village of Aleksandrovka, Novosibirsk Region.

After the tragic death of her husband in 1940, Ulyana Gavrilovna Zhabskaya, the mother of Alexei, with six children moved to the mining town of Kiselevsk, and the war soon began. They lived in a dugout poor and hungry. There are very few things in the house, the most valuable is a bowler hat and a book of Pushkin’s fairy tales. A series of paintings by Alexei Alexandrovich "Children of the war. 1943 ”from here, from his military childhood. In the paintings - a young widow and children, equally fragile and pale, share a military ration, read, draw, prepare for school.

In the future profession, guessed as a child, Zhabsky never doubted. A sixteen-year-old teenager, Aleksei enters the Sverdlovsk art and craft school No. 42 at the alpha-painting department. Perhaps it was from here that he brought out an invaluable sense of material and style, which was realized much later in his compositions, "tricks".

The next step was the Sverdlovsk Art School, the knowledge and skills gained during these years helped him to organize an art studio in the hostel of Glavmosstroy in the future. The most talented students of Zhabsky entered various art schools in Moscow and became professionals. In 1959, the main dream of Aleksei Aleksandrovich came true - in the direction of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, he entered the State Art Institute. V.I. Surikov at the Faculty of Easel Painting (workshop of Professor D.K. Mochalsky).

In 1965, after graduating from the Moscow State Art Institute, a graduate of Zhabsky was sent to the Combine of Fine Arts, which carried out orders of "social and cultural facilities." Historical, historical and revolutionary topics, plots from modern life - this diversity still gave him the opportunity to choose and creative self-realization. Several of his paintings of this period are “Along the valleys and on the hills” 1967, “We will build a new world” 1968-69. (Tretyakov Gallery) - became real, great successes. In 1967, A. A. Zhabsky was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR.

As a student, and then a recognized artist, Aleksey Aleksandrovich came to Uglich every summer for 20 years, preferring the dormitory of the campus to creative dachas inhabited by colleagues. The ancient Uglich land inspired him to create amazingly poetic landscapes. Uglich for the artist is the walls of the Epiphany Cathedral and the Marvelous Church of the Alekseevsky Monastery… These are old friends - students and neighbors who posed for the master. The portraits painted here became a separate chapter in his creative biography. The artistic heritage of Alexei Zhabsky is distinguished by a wide variety of genres. Large-scale multi-figure compositions, landscapes, portraits, still lifes. Interest in the ancient history of the Fatherland resulted in the creation of such paintings as “On the Kulikovo Field” 1980, “On the Polovtsian Steppes” 1985. and etc.

The unchanging love of the painter has always been a still life. It is as if he couldn’t see enough of the most different things - simple and refined: a cast iron and a jug, dried fish, bread with a burnt crust, a branch of flowering cherry, plaster casts, engraving, old books… He writes fruits and flowers in the spirit of old masters. He is fond of “tricks”, as Russian artists wrote them, including his beloved Fedor Tolstoy. Alexei Zhabsky now and then “substitutes” the viewer’s eyes with folds of drapery, now crumpled paper, now a crumpled brown bag. The picturesque part of the artist’s creative heritage is extensive and well-known, presented in museums and published in various publications. But its second component, the graphics stored in the family meeting - watercolors, pastels, drawings - still just emerge from the secluded darkness of folders into the light of exhibition halls.

A.A. Zhabsky is a member of the Union of Artists since 1967, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1996), and participant in all-Union and republican exhibitions. Winner of numerous diplomas and medals of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian Academy of Arts, the Union of Artists and MOSH. Artworks A.A. Zhabsky are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, museums and art galleries in Moscow, Uglich, Tula, Tver, Kirov, Omsk, Orel, Belgorod and many others, in private collections in Russia and abroad.

The creative heritage of the Honored Artist of Russia is about 900 works of various genres. At the same time, his work is only beginning to open to the audience, since the author’s first personal exhibition took place only after the artist’s death, in the spring of 2009.