"NESHEXPIRE. A Midsummer Night’s Dream"

Participants: Dmitry Shorin, Alexander Savko, Maxim Orlitsky, Andrey Arkhipov, Alexey Vasiliev, Anton Gudzikevich, Maria Zhurikova, Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf, Ivan Korshunov, Osip Toff, Timofey Smirnov, Rabota, Slava Ereshchuk.

The new project of the Fine Art Gallery is dedicated to summer, the shortest, sunniest time of the year, when we only dream of a beautiful, magical, immersed in a somewhat relaxed, joyful state, and in the dreams that we see, all the incredible good comes true. Why is NESHEXPIRE? And why is the “non-milk” product sold in stores? The dreams of our artists do not illustrate Shakespeare’s famous play. During the exhibition, a Battle will take place between artists Maxim Orlitsky and Roma Kazus. In a sense, a confrontation is expected between Moscow and young Crimean artists. However, all are united by a common property, work is the love of their whole life.

Four of the artists presented for the first time in the Gallery. These are Muscovites Maxim Orlitsky and Slava Ereshchuk, Crimeans Anton Gudzikevich and Maria Zhurikova. Crimean artists are not at all concerned about the extremes in the minds of adherents of contemporary art. Gudzikevich’s Mediterranean metaphysical landscapes are, as it were, inside the paintings filled with the sun, they are written in open color, they have bright blue skies and water, and an flora of acid green. They are full of grace and naivety, which reminds the landscapes of David Hockney using acid colors. Like Hockney, Anton in scenes of his works writes scenes by the pool, and also admires the beauty of a naked body by the water, unlike the Englishman, a young female. The association with Hockney’s work does not diminish, but only emphasizes the courage and vividness of Anton Gudzikevich’s personality.

Maria Zhurikova operates with physicality using an expressive manner of writing. She manipulates the female body, depicting it, then a contour pattern, then turning it into colorful abstract two-tone layers. The female essence fills the whole world with itself, and the surrounding space flows with colors into the body contour. There are completely different meanings in her painting “Oil”, where a young, reckless, “untied” girl in red labootens sat on a rocket and laughs. It seems to symbolize the entire Z generation with its energy and independence.

Luxurious expressive painting of Orlitsky, according to the artist himself, reflects the processes of "searching for himself, his destiny, transformation and rebirth, an attempt to identify himself, but often imaginary and illusory." However, the names of the paintings ("Chameleon", "Mermaid", "Amphibian", "Teonanakatel"), their plots of turning a person into other creatures allow us to interpret the work as turned to magic, witchcraft, Vedicism, to wonderful adventures on the night of fern blooming. Glory Ereshchuk, combining pasty red sunflowers and “postcard” irises in the “Color” canvas, will make the viewer wonder if it is possible to perceive this picture only as an interior work. In the painting "Terrarium", written in the Baroque style, Andrei Arkhipov creates an artificial world where a female praying mantis eats its partner. The artist is trying to "talk about the desire of people to isolate themselves and their inner world, to create their own terrarium, in which only the apparent protection from the outside world becomes a trap for self-eating."

In addition to young authors, the project involves mature masters - Alexander Savko and Dmitry Shorin. Shorin has a girlfriend, there are also airplanes, it can be assumed that the latter personify the male principle, which explains the voluptuous expression on the girl’s face. Irina Filatova.