Exhibition of Vadim Zaritsky "Harmony of form and color" Automatic translate

September 23 at 16-00 in the Information - educational and exhibition center of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin, 103, second floor) will open the unique exhibition of Vadim Zaritsky "Harmony of form and color." The exhibition will feature about 70 works by the master, made from butterfly wings.

Zaritsky Vadim Zotikovich was born on March 18, 1965 in the city of Kaliningrad. He was fond of insects since childhood, as well as drawing, the abilities for which showed up quite early. From the age of eight he began to collect a collection of butterflies. The first experiment was unsuccessful - the collection was lost due to inexperience - pests destroyed a few copies.

Vadim Zaritsky returned to the childhood fascination after many years when, according to the distribution of the Kaliningrad Higher Naval School, he entered the Pacific Fleet, where he served on Russky Island (near Vladivostok). Faced with the magnificence and diversity of the Far Eastern entomofauna, he again plunged into the study of insects.

Having got acquainted with entomologist Vladimir Meshcheryakov (a pupil of A. Kurentsov), a well-known entomologist in the Far East, Vadim became interested in breeding butterflies at home. These were mainly sailboats and saturnia.

In 1998, having finished his service with the rank of captain of the 3rd rank, Zaritsky Vadim left Primorye and moved for permanent residence in the city of Lipetsk. Visiting Moscow, he met many entomologists who played an important role in determining his future activities. Becoming a specialist in any particular group of insects was not the main goal of Vadim, as he was primarily interested in the largest and most prominent representatives of the world of invertebrates. Having carried out several Palearctic expeditions together with Yuri Berezhny (Primorye, Altai, Yakutia, Elbrus region, Kyrgyzstan) Zaritsky collected a fairly representative pseudoscientific collection and held several exhibitions in museums and schools in the city of Lipetsk. The audience was most interested in paintings from fragments of butterfly wings, which Vadim Zaritsky first began to create during entomological exhibitions in order to attract the attention of viewers to one extraordinary miracle - the butterfly wing!

The first trip to the island of Borneo in April 2007 with Andrei Sochivko and Andrei Gorokhov shocked the imagination of the future artist and radically changed his lifestyle.

Expeditions to tropical countries with Pavel Udovichenko, Vasily Kovtunovich and Viktor Sinyaev alternated with exhibitions of paintings, which became more and more. Still lifes, landscapes, portraits, decorative panels, replicas of the works of famous artists were performed in a different manner and technique (the effect of old photographs, watercolors, tapestries, etc.). Exhibitions were held in Lipetsk, Voronezh, Tuapse, Kirov, Cheboksary, Yoshkar-Ola, Izhevsk. Every year, some of Zaritsky’s paintings are exhibited at the Moscow Entomological Forum. The largest exhibition of paintings from butterfly wings “Harmony of Form and Color” (more than 130 works) was held in Lipetsk in November 2015.

“I am often asked - how did it all begin? Once upon a time for the purpose of collecting and conducting scientific research, butterflies were caught all over the world. Gabon and South Africa, Vietnam and Peru, China and Altai, Yakutia and the Midland of Russia… World-famous scientists and simply amateur entomologists caught and did not cease to be amazed at the color, texture and grace of the lines. Each “smear” of these paintings is already woven by nature from thousands of microscopic scales deposited on a transparent membrane. It remains only to collect, preserve and combine them into one whole to get a landscape, portrait, still life or just a conditional composition. The color scheme of the wings allows you to copy Vrubel, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, and sometimes compete with a photo lens, bypassing the need for tinting, tinting and soil. This is my path as an entomologist, naturalist, artist. ”

Vadim Zaritsky

The exhibition will run for visitors until October 23,
daily from 10-00 to 18-00,
Saturday from 11-00 to 19-00, Monday is a day off,
the last Friday of the month is a sanitary day.