Exhibition by Igor Shirshkov "Walk/Effect of the Observer"

The exposition includes about 60 works of painting, graphics, as well as sculpture installations. The exhibition brings together works from the museum’s collection, from the artist’s studio and private collections.

Igor Shirshkov is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, professor at the Department of Design at the Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts, candidate of art criticism, participant in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Born in Ulan-Ude, studied in Irkutsk, moved to St. Petersburg, and from there to Moscow. A trip around the country and a walk through the legendary Moscow Izmailovo Park are made into an exhibition project, in which the figurative is combined with the abstract, the spot with the line, and recognizable artifacts or natural objects line up in "park" sculpture installations.

The postmodernist poetics of the author is not alien to surrealism and absurdism. Its black towers are crowned with the red egg-shaped proportions of Salvador Dali, and in abstract painting the “empty canon”, or, according to Shirshkov, “the movement of white” turns out to be important. The artist’s white color both marks the empty space of the square, and frames the light, and spreads with patches of glare along the park paths – quite in the spirit of the Impressionists.

This is how Igor Shirshkov’s method turns out to be dialectical: the artist works on counterpoint, opposing a picturesque line and a graphic spot, a lyrical character and a modernist grid, architectural archetypes and fantasy park installations.

Personal exhibition of Igor Shirshkov "Walk/Effect of the Observer" will run in the Main Museum Building (Lenin St., 5) until January 29, 2023. Phone for inquiries and appointments for excursions: 34-01-46. The exposition is available on the "Pushkin map": https://vmuzey.com/event/postoyannaya-ekspoziciya-irkutskogo-hudozhestvennogo-muzeya