Personal exhibition of Dmitry Grachev (1984-2022). Posthumous.

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08.11.2022 News of the IUH: painting
Personal exhibition of Dmitry Grachev (1984-2022).
The Moscow Union of Artists presents the first personal exhibition of Dmitry Grachev (1984-2022) in the halls at Kuznetsky most, 20. Artist-painter, member of the Union of Artists, who passed away in 2022..

Dmitry Grachev entered art at the turn of the 2000s. After graduating from Moscow Art School № 3, he studied at the Moscow State Academic Institute named after V.I. Surikov (2002-2007, the Workshop of P.F. Nikonov). In 2007 he continued his studies in London, where he received his diploma at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of Arts London (Wimbledon College of Arts) in 2008. At the same time, Grachev became a member of the IUA and later joined the Russian Union of Artists.

The personal exhibition of D. V. Grachev presents works created by the artist in the 2010s-2020s. During these years he regularly takes part in art exhibitions in Russia, Great Britain and Finland. Creative fate of the artist is saturated numerous trips to Europe, where he meets and repeatedly visits the cities that will later become the heroes of his works ("Copenhagen" from the series "Reflections". C/m, 150/120 cm, 2005, "Benches" (Amsterdam), C/m, 150/120 cm, 2005).

A special place in the fate of the artist took creative training at the international center of arts "Cite international des Arts", (France, Paris, 2010), where an artistic cycle of paintings, landscapes of the city, to which he will repeatedly return in later years of life ("Paris. Reality vs. imagination", x/m, 100/80, 2013).

During his travels Dmitry Grachev begins to form a special creative manner as a bright and distinctive artist of the Moscow school of painting, his commitment to the cult of color and bright emotional style of writing. The exposition of the first personal exhibition also includes a cycle of his graphic works ("Rimini", paper/pastel, 50/65, 2008, "Moscow #6", paper/pastel, 65/50 cm, 2006), characterized by fresh colors, freedom and relaxed author's stroke, creating a sense of awe and genuine naturalness of the artist's artistic manner.

The last decade in the work of the young artist appears a series of cityscapes, filled with intonations of apocalyptic moods. ("Paris", х/m, 130/130 cm, 2010). Programmatic for this cycle of works can be considered a landscape of "Moscow" (x/m, 80/100 cm, 2011). The flaming, threatening glow in the night, hidden by the silhouette of one of Stalin's high-rises, the dark contours, almost indistinguishable to the eye, like ghostly harbingers, turn a real city into the tragic phantasmagoria of the artist.

Dmitry Grachev revised the traditions of the Moscow school of urban and architectural landscape, in which the national perception of the artist manifests itself as a dramatic premonition.

The exhibition demonstrates the vast, multifaceted heritage of the artist, his creative potential and unique manner of artistic skill. His works are in numerous collections in Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, France and Israel.

Curator of the exhibition: People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, twice winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation Pavel Nikonov.

The exhibition is open from November 10 to 18, 2022, hours 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, at 20 Kuznetsky Most.