Jewish Cultural Center on Nikitskaya presents an exhibition-sale of paintings by Nikolai Vasilyevich Zhukov

A bright and original schedule, Nikolai Vasilyevich Zhukov, was born in 1952 in Novosibirsk. He preferred independent art classes to traditional art education. The artist collected valuable material for his work in numerous trips to remote areas of the Far North, Western and Eastern Siberia, Altai, thanks to which he studied the life of the indigenous peoples of the region. Perhaps this formed the artist’s love for fairy-tale images, animals, birds, flowers, toys - a diverse world in which reality is combined with a fantastic and wonderful.

The works of Nikolai Zhukov combine the features of naive and avant-garde, medieval and folk art - close to his attitude. The artist often applies the opposite perspective, different scales, selects different points of view, shifts the center of the composition, introduces several centers, creating his multifaceted space, combining the past, present and future in it.

Nikolai Zhukov turns to symbols, metaphors, trying to reveal what is hidden behind real forms, behind familiar notions, reveals the inner world of a person through the world of things around him, and he endows things with features of living beings, asserting their significance, showing in the ordinary eternal, eternal.

Nikolay Zhukov is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, a member of the International Association of Fine Arts of AIAP UNESCO, a member of the International Federation of Artists, a member of the Eurasian Puppet Union, and curator of exhibition projects. His works are in the Moscow State Museum of Folk Graphics, in the State Literary Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow, at the State Historical Museum, Moscow, at the All-Russian State Museum of A.S. Pushkin on the Moika, St. Petersburg, at the Puppet Museum on Smolenka, St. Petersburg, at the French Embassy in Moscow, at the Museum of Theater Arts, Freiburg, in the Gallery of Private ID Collections, Riga, as well as in the main museum collections of Siberia. He began to exhibit in 1973. Member of many exhibitions - international, Russian, regional. Among them, seven are personal.

March 14 - April 25, 2013, Curator - Irina Korchagina

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