Exhibition of paintings and drawings of the winner of the All-Russian contest "The Muse Should Work" 16+

Gallery "Ts" 1st floor.

From September 6 to October 3, 2019, the exhibition of the winner of the All-Russian contest of young artists “The Muse Must Work” in the “Painting” category 2018-2019 will be held at the ARTMUZA Museum of Modern Art. Igor Shcherbakova "Kraparium".

Igor was born in the military part of the city of Borisoglebsk, Voronezh region in 1990. He painted since childhood, but when choosing a profession he did not connect his future with fine art, more gravitating to wildlife. Igor wanted to enter the Forestry Faculty at Lestech and become a huntsman, go to Siberia. But fate decided differently and a turning point, the “point of no return” was a visit to the workshop of one artist on the recommendation of the school teacher of fine arts, who saw good drawing abilities in the student. And in 2007 Igor moved to Voronezh, where he enrolled at the Voronezh Art College and, quite soon, from 2014. actively participates in regional, regional collective and personal exhibitions, wins competitions and continues his personal study of the possibilities of the visual language.

However, the craving for root causes and archaic roots, the attraction of which was intuitively felt by the author from his youth, still lives in the artist, directing him by his dearest, closest personal nature. Music for the author is as necessary as painting, he connects these components of life as completely inseparable components, finding a similar nature in them. The metaphysical mindset and abilities of an attentive researcher give rise to the need to understand the basis of sound formation, and the artist makes musical instruments from natural materials, comprehending the quintessence of both the sound itself and the color formation of colorful textures.

The exhibition “KRAPARIUM" Igor Shcherbakov seeks to combine the works of different years and creative periods in which he searched and still searches for the exact pictorial formulation of the images that are important to him. The author has always been close to the principle of creativity, as a special protected area, where rare-red images reside, which the artist carefully watches and cares for. This is a certain laboratory in which experiments and selection of plastic symbols are constantly taking place. The result of this work are canvases where these images manifest themselves. In this sense, Kraparium (based on the author’s pseudonym Igor Krapar) is the artist’s personal laboratory collection. A kind of living thing that inhabits its reserve. In them, one can trace the archetypes of botanical and anthropomorphic forms - interwoven into a common substance, which is a key idea. The interaction and penetration into each other of human and natural principles. For Shcherbakov, the fundamental principle of these processes is important. Work with painting helps to analyze them.

Due to the heterogeneity and instability of these images, the artist tries not to “freeze” in one stylistic and technical solution to the problem - the acquired skill often prevents one from grasping a new felt plastic. This is the reason why the work of different years can be so different, and it is important for the author to see and act at the current moment, thereby moving forward.

“In my opinion, creativity under any circumstances should be alive. And living things are very difficult to “pack” into any forms, especially simple ones. I always try to feel where I need to go and listen carefully to the work in the process, this helps to tune in to the right wave, I leave everything else to the court and the imagination of the viewer. That is his right. The work does not have to be chewed and explained, otherwise it becomes uninteresting. Therefore, I try to collect special “strange” relics in my kraparium ”- the author of the exhibition is Igor Shcherbakov.