Genesis

Exhibition of painting "BEING" by Maxim and Olga Zhurova, in the special project "Creative Union" of ArtMaison Gallery.

Our authors this time became a married couple of artists Maxim and Olga Zhurovs, bright representatives of the Moscow school of realistic, figurative painting, graduates of the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov, who received skills in the workshop, under the guidance of the People's Artist of Russia Professor Vladimir Telin.

Olga and Maxim are not Muscovites, she came to Moscow from Krasnodar, having graduated from the Krasnodar Art School, and he was born in Donskoy, Tula region, in a family where there were already artists, Maxim's uncle taught in "Surka"... The young artists met as students at the Surikov Institute, Maxim was 3 years older, defending his Small Diploma. At the defense Olga liked his workshop best of all, she decided in the third year to go there. At that time the head of the workshop was Vyacheslav Zabelin, then Vladimir Telin, now it is led by Alexey Sukhovetsky. All of them, for all their differences among themselves, being the brightest representatives of the Moscow school of painting, had a huge influence on their students.

According to Olga Zhurova:
"We got married because we realized we couldn't be without each other and there was no other way!
But!
In creativity, everyone remained in their own trajectory of development, although there was a common vector of direction, and helped each other with advice. Or refraining from them)). The change in my marital status probably had more of an impact on me, especially when it comes to the theme of motherhood and childhood - it had a huge impact on all my work!

Olga and Maxim manage to combine family and creative life. The artists have overcome the conventionality of the prose of everyday life, changing the prose content to the meaningful and philosophical "Being", inspiringly combining matter and spirit in the unity of creativity, making their life, being - the main motive of their art and "without trying to impress the viewer with the exoticism of the plot" the authors nevertheless create their own, separate pictorial reality - filled with common meanings and different in the author's style of writing, composition, color and light.

Touching, almost intimate subjects of Olga, letting us into her feminine, maternal world "Sweet Dreams", "Fenechka", the world filled with warm sunlight "Summer Day at the Manor", the air and romance of decorative understatement in the works "Self-Portrait", "Dream" and at the same time the conventions of ordinary life, neighbors with a clear "Nude on the blue", monumental "Laocoon", strict, thorough "Women in Russian national costumes" and sometimes harsh world in the paintings "Master" and "Watchman" Maxim Zhurov, her husband. Non-objective reality plus traditional easel painting and "romantic realism" - such is the professional answer given by
Jourovs complexities of BEING, in those moments when there is a need for privacy "due to the "sacredness of the mystery of creativity" and demonstrates the answer to the popular myth that two creators find it difficult to get along under one roof, saying:

"... it's not a myth, it's not easy for us to find a compromise either, but we have to find it - the good thing is that as a family we are helped in this by mutual respect, love for each other and for art..."

Curator of the special project "Creative Union"
Lisa Eshwa, Chair of the Art History Section of the Eurasian Art Union.
Aaron Gelrud Playbill

Opening night is May 18 at 6:00pm!
The period of holding from May 20 to 24 from 12:00 to 20:00, admission is free!