Exhibition of works by Evgeny Romashko "Magic of the Plein Air"

The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of paintings "Magic of the Plein Air" by the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Academician, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, First Vice-President of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, Head of the Department of Academic Painting of the Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry. S. G. Stroganov Evgeny Viktorovich Romashko, dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the artist.

The exhibition includes works created over the past ten years. Some of them were repeatedly shown at his personal traveling exhibition, successfully held in Smolensk, Kirov, Orel, Vladivostok, Saratov, Stavropol, Yoshkar-Ola and other cities of Russia, as well as in Slovakia and the People’s Republic of China. Some works are presented to the viewer for the first time.

Evgeny Romashko was born in 1962 in Zaporozhye. In 1985 he graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (former Stroganov). Currently, he is active in creative and social activities, is the author of a number of large-scale art projects in Moscow and the regions: “Picturesque Russia”, “Our World. New reality”, “Ars longa”, “Art today”, “Painting and drawing. Stroganov School.

In his work, the artist continues the traditions of the realistic natural school of painting, his name is among such masters as Mikhail Abakumov, Grigory Chainikov, and other major painters of the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries. He is a master of composition, a subtle colorist who brilliantly conveys the sensations of light, air and space. His plastic language is based on the rejection of sharp contrasts, an increase in the sonority of color within the classical palette (often in shadows), adherence to tone and complex mixtures, pastosity of writing, combining work with a brush and a palette knife. With the movement of strokes, sometimes textured, almost embossed, sometimes transparent, he creates images of nature with amazing accuracy and penetration, subject only to a sensitive eye and absolute hearing. In the construction of space, he pays special attention to the light-air environment.

In the work of Evgeny Romashko there are several leading themes: the landscape of Moscow in a combination of history and modernity; small towns of Russia, among which a separate place is occupied by Pereslavl-Zalessky and Suzdal; foreign countries and cities; natural landscape, mainly in the middle zone, Altai, the vicinity of the Academic Dacha named after. I. E. Repina. Often in the works you can find recurring favorite motifs and plots that most fully correspond to the artist’s worldview. The author works exclusively from nature, striving to preserve the freshness and liveliness of the impression, the sound of colors even in large multi-session canvases.

His works are like "self-portraits" of the author’s emotional states. Under the brush of Romashko, the long-familiar is filled with the living breath of today’s worldview. He is a consistent successor of the great traditions of Russian artistic culture, endowed with the gift to see what is “hidden by time”, to awaken in the audience the multi-associative sensations of mysterious, endless beauty.

The artist’s works are stored in the Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I. N. Kramskoy, Vyatka Art Museum named after V. M. and A. M. Vasnetsov, Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, collections of art museums of Kineshma, Kostroma, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Ples, Vladivostok, Yoshkar-Ola, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Stavropol, Tula, other Russian cities, in the Museum of Watercolors in Mexico City (Mexico), in the Liu Mingxiu Museums in Harbin and Dailyan (China), in the collection of the Russian Cultural Foundation, in private collections in Russia and abroad.