Evgeny Rodionov. WIDE WIDE WIDE STEP!

Evgeny Rodionov is an artist from Vologda, well-known to St. Petersburg connoisseurs and connoisseurs of art. Born in 1980 in Vologda. He received an architectural education and worked as an architect. Now he has completely completed architectural activity and is focused on opening his own graphic horizons. Works are in many private collections and collections both in Russia and abroad.

The exposition will feature more than sixty works, large and miniature, made by tempera and acrylic on hardboard. There are pioneers, and grandmothers, and "talking" still lifes…

From the author

For me, a pioneer is, first of all, the image of the discoverer of the new world, a small person, a child, facing reality, opening his eyes, cognizing the world, losing faith in the ideality of this world…

Grandmothers and grandfathers are, on the one hand, people wise in experience and seasoned by life, who know everything and know how, but ask any granny how much she feels, and she will answer that she is 15, 20, 25 years old in her soul, which means the senile image is no different from the image of a young pioneer. At any age, we ask ourselves questions, important questions: what is happiness, what is good, what is bad, how is it right, who we are. We answer them, we understand that we were mistaken, we ask ourselves again and again…

"Talking" still lifes, as I call them, hide similar plots, stories. They can be imagined, invented, thought out. Items on them sometimes become the same heroes as in paintings with people.

The direction in which I work, I myself define as "Rodion painting" or "Rodion painting." This is a kind of combination of Russian folk pictures, medieval miniatures, comics, posters, as well as childhood memories, passions and hobbies. And the choice of plots for pictures is explained by the fact that I try to look at the world around me through the eyes of an adult child. An adult, because there is already enough life experience and knowledge, and a child, because I do not want to stop rejoicing in what is happening, joking about it, joking and naughty. But since there is nothing more boring than constancy, I am actively looking for new forms and languages, while maintaining my own unique style and manner.

Evgeny Rodionov

Main exhibitions:

2019
Personal exhibition in the literary residence "Uncle Gilyay’s House", Vologda
Personal exhibition in the gallery "Vernissage", Cherepovets

2018
Personal exhibition in the gallery "Pig Snout", St. Petersburg
Personal exhibition in Konakovo River Club, Konakovo, Tver Oblast

2017
Participation in the art festival ART STREAM 2017, Osaka, Japan
Personal exhibition in the gallery "Pig Snout", St. Petersburg
Participation in exhibitions of the Hermitage. Petersburg Fairy Tale ”, Syktyvkar, Vologda, St. Petersburg)
Personal exhibition in the gallery "ArtNaiv", Moscow

2016
Personal exhibition in the center of culture "Red Corner", Vologda
Personal exhibition in the art cafe "Buffet", Nizhny Novgorod
Personal exhibition in the gallery "ArtNaiv", Moscow
Presentation of the fairy-tale popular print project “The Tale of the Cat of Vasily Vologodsky in Picturesque and Poetry Pictures” at the State Hermitage as part of the celebration of Hermitage Cat Day, St. Petersburg
Personal exhibition in the literary residence "Uncle Gilyay’s House", Vologda

2015
Personal exhibition in the gallery "ArtNaiv", Moscow

2014
Personal exhibition in the center of culture "Red Corner", Vologda
Personal exhibition in the gallery "ArtNaiv", Moscow

2008 - 2012
Group exhibitions of the Society of Homeless Poets and Artists in Vologda, Cherepovets, Moscow and St. Petersburg