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Evgeny Muzalevsky (b. 1995) is one of the most striking young representatives of the modern Russian art scene, working with traditional painting techniques. Art critic Andrei Sarabyanov sees in his work the inheritance of traditions from the avant-garde, the post-avant-garde, and the art of the Sixtiers.
After enrolling at the Rodchenko School Muzalevsky wanted to master the art of photography, as the best way to record subjects captured from life. However, he soon swapped his camera for canvas, paper, pencil and paints, relocating to Sergei Bratkov’s workshop. He is currently continuing his studies under the guidance of German conceptualist Heiner Blum, at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach, Germany.
Muzalevsky’s painting is emotional and direct, yet at the same time complex and multi-layered. He constructs and transfers personal experiences and impressions to the canvas, using iconic images from the depths of culture and religion. Over the years Muzalevsky accumulated visual and emotional baggage: from childhood spent with his grandmother in a village near Samara, his own self-education, an early passion for photography, transit from Samara to St. Petersburg, to Moscow and Germany. Notably, the works created in Russia are wild, highly-strung and intense, while those from Germany are more refined and reflexive. Muzalevsky often gives his paintings poetic names which, ‘like a fit of passion, a phrase torn from a diary, a memory’, unnerve or excite our perception: ‘Shadows flying by’, ‘Let’s build a church from our misfortunes and a hut from our love’, ‘A seratonin pit on your cheek’. They form an inseparable part of his oeuvre as poetics that allow the artist to create another dimension, and thereby the possibility to advance even further by peering behind the text.
In October 2021 the Alina Pinsky Gallery staged a solo exhibition by Muzalevsky, and the work ‘And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors’ won the Zverev Art Prize. At the age of 26 this vibrant, original, charismatic and direct artist already featured in significant Russian collections.
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