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Evgeny Muzalevsky: Monochrome, with Mama Behind Me
On 17 September 2024 a solo exhibition by Evgeny Muzalevsky opens at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Evgeny Muzalevsky was born in 1995 in the village of Alexeevka in the Samara Region. He began his career in art with photography, enrolling at the Rodchenko School. In 2017 he participated in a Rodchenko School group exhibition at MAMM, 鈥楧irect Photography: Diary and Self-Portrait. Igor Mukhin鈥檚 Workshop鈥�. During his studies Muzalevsky developed an interest in graphics and painting, and today these are the principal media used by the artist.
As a student Muzalevsky began keeping diaries with sketches of memories and events, as the artist himself says, 鈥渢o dump images鈥�. This is a kind of personal archive, a self-portrait diary he always carries with him.
Muzalevsky鈥檚 lively and expressive work is egocentric in the best sense. It is directly related to the artist鈥檚 life experience. Mastering the large-scale plane of the canvas in his abstract compositions, he constructs, first of all, the space of his own meanings, his personal mythology based on the events of his own dramatic biography.
In 2020 Evgeny Muzalevsky continued his studies at the School of Arts and Design in Offenbach, Germany.
The artist鈥檚 first major solo exhibition was held in 2021 at the Alina Pinsky Gallery. In recent years a new stage has appeared in Muzalevsky鈥檚 work: compared to the earlier frenetic, impulsive and rather intuitive works, his canvases and graphics become more structured. They acquire order and a manifestation of architectonics; in a sense they are reminiscent of 鈥榮tained glass鈥�. Muzalevsky develops his own vocabulary, a set of specific compositional elements 鈥� images that create a kind of 鈥榖rickwork鈥� on the plane of the canvas by developing and interacting with each other in different ways.
The artist says: 鈥淚t鈥檚 important for me to devise my own space for the picture, but it always escapes from sight. Usually this is space in a broad sense: recently 鈥� the space of caves, various miniatures, model universes, frescoes or buildings. And my changing understanding of space is influenced by new technical means, canvases, environments, by how and with what I make the picture鈥�.
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On 17 September 2024 a solo exhibition by Evgeny Muzalevsky opens at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
Evgeny Muzalevsky was born in 1995 in the village of Alexeevka in the Samara Region. He began his career in art with photography, enrolling at the Rodchenko School. In 2017 he participated in a Rodchenko School group exhibition at MAMM, 鈥楧irect Photography: Diary and Self-Portrait. Igor Mukhin鈥檚 Workshop鈥�. During his studies Muzalevsky developed an interest in graphics and painting, and today these are the principal media used by the artist.
As a student Muzalevsky began keeping diaries with sketches of memories and events, as the artist himself says, 鈥渢o dump images鈥�. This is a kind of personal archive, a self-portrait diary he always carries with him.
Muzalevsky鈥檚 lively and expressive work is egocentric in the best sense. It is directly related to the artist鈥檚 life experience. Mastering the large-scale plane of the canvas in his abstract compositions, he constructs, first of all, the space of his own meanings, his personal mythology based on the events of his own dramatic biography.
In 2020 Evgeny Muzalevsky continued his studies at the School of Arts and Design in Offenbach, Germany.
The artist鈥檚 first major solo exhibition was held in 2021 at the Alina Pinsky Gallery. In recent years a new stage has appeared in Muzalevsky鈥檚 work: compared to the earlier frenetic, impulsive and rather intuitive works, his canvases and graphics become more structured. They acquire order and a manifestation of architectonics; in a sense they are reminiscent of 鈥榮tained glass鈥�. Muzalevsky develops his own vocabulary, a set of specific compositional elements 鈥� images that create a kind of 鈥榖rickwork鈥� on the plane of the canvas by developing and interacting with each other in different ways.
The artist says: 鈥淚t鈥檚 important for me to devise my own space for the picture, but it always escapes from sight. Usually this is space in a broad sense: recently 鈥� the space of caves, various miniatures, model universes, frescoes or buildings. And my changing understanding of space is influenced by new technical means, canvases, environments, by how and with what I make the picture鈥�.
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