Veniamin Zakharov-Kholmsky "Return"

In the new 2018 year, the gallery will open with an exhibition of paintings and graphic works by the oldest Ural artist with the unique and powerful gift of a draftsman, a master of printed graphics, a book illustrator, painter, colorist and monumental painter Veniamin Ivanovich Zakharov-Kholmsky (1930-2011). A graduate of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repina (1962), member of the Union of Artists of Russia (since 1971), an active participant in All-Union and international exhibitions, Veniamin Ivanovich lived and worked in the city of metallurgists - Magnitogorsk for more than 30 years, and he created more than 700 works in different genres and technicians.

He was an artist constantly evolving, stubbornly seeking his own path in art. The desire to comply with time, the modern rhythm of life led him to bold experiments in the field of visual language. As a result of endless creative searches, he managed to create his own autonomous plastic and color universe. The master’s complex and ambiguous art world was based on the principles of research and innovation (once, for his passion for modernism, he was removed from the defense of his diploma work at the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then his work was awarded the rating “satisfactory”). The province in art always adheres to traditions and is wary of any innovations. Despite this, the artist had and has genuine admirers of his talent, including among Magnitogorsk collectors.

Peter the First, 2007

At the samovar, oil on canvas 2007

His work is closely connected with the classical traditions of the past, with the aesthetics of postmodernism, the basis of which is fluency and appeal to a variety of styles and artistic movements.

In St. Petersburg, the works of the master are exhibited for the first time.

The exhibition will feature a monograph-album about the work of V. Zakharov-Kholmsky.

St. George, oil on canvas 2002

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

1981 - Magnitogorsk State Pedagogical Institute (MGPI)
1983 - Exhibition Hall of the Chelyabinsk Union of Artists (COSH). Chelyabinsk,
1982, 1994, 1998, 2005 - Magnitogorsk Picture Gallery
2009 - Magnitogorsk Picture Gallery, software exhibition of paintings
“From Suprematism to Leonardo da Vinci”
2015 - Magnitogorsk Picture Gallery, an exhibition of paintings and graphics from private collections "Art Overflowing"

EXHIBITIONS

Member of city and regional exhibitions since 1966. Organizer of more than 20 personal exhibitions on the territory of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK).

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Kalmyk National History Museum
Komi-Perm Art Museum, Perm
Perm State Art Gallery, Perm
Yaroslavl Historical and Architectural Art Museum-Reserve, Yaroslavl
Museum-Reserve "The Word of Igor’s Campaign", Novgorod-Seversky
Prints Department of the Russian National Library, St. Petersburg
State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
Private collections Russia, Canada, USA