EVERAL WEEKEND - 1st Moscow International Festival of Contemporary Art.

The exhibition is sponsored by the French wine brand No. 1 in the world J.P. Chenet (Jean Paul Chenet) and by creative partners – “Soda Production”, a video production studio - "Art must be seen by millions."

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

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

Four of the presented artists are for the first time in the Gallery. These are Moscow artists Maxim Orlitskiy and Slava Ereshuk, Crimean artists 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 though, filled with the sun fr om the inside of the paintings, they are written in open color, they have bright blue skies and water, and flora of acid green. They are full of grace and naivety, which reminds the landscapes of David Hockney using acid colors. Like Hockney, Anton writes scenes by the pool in the plots of his works, and also admires the beauty of a naked body by the water, unlike an Englishman, Anton presents 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, contouring 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, “forward” girl in red “louboutins” sits on a rocket and laughs. It seems to symbolize the entire Generation Z 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 titles of the paintings ("Chameleon", "Mermaid", "Amphibian", "Teonanakatl"), their plots of a person’s transformations into other creatures allow us to interpret the works as turned to magic, witchcraft, vedic, to wonderful night adventures of fern blooming.

Slava Ereshuk, combining pasty red sunflowers and “postcard” irises in the “Color” canvas, makes 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 wh ere 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-cannibalism".

In addition to young authors, the project involves mature masters - Alexander Savko and Dmitriy Shorin. In Shorin’s painting there is a girl, there are also airplanes, it can be assumed that the latter personify the masculine principle, which explains the lascivious expression on the girl's face.

Irina Filatova