Vashchenko Yuri Arsentyevich
Born in 1941 in Moscow
In 1963, graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after Lenin (Art and Graphic Faculty)
Since 1974, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR
Works in collections
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after V.Surikov, Krasnoyarsk
Tyumen Museum of Fine Arts, Tyumen
Charlotte Museum, North Carolina, USA
Private collections in Russia, France, USA, the Netherlands, Italy
Exhibitions and auctions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1990 “Graphic Seasons” (with N. Popov). Artists' Union Exhibition Hall (Tverskaya, 25), Moscow
1992-93 “A 3” Gallery, Moscow
1993 “Pauses”. “Moscow Palette” Gallery, Moscow
Nuvolanera S.Croce s/Arno, Italy
1993 “Il Gabbiano” Gallery, La Spezia, Italy
1994 “Rosso tiziano Arte”. Piacenza, Italy
1995 “Compositions”. Kent Gallery, USA
1996 With Joy Brown, Cushla Naegele. Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1968-75 Youth Exhibitions. Exhibition Hall at Kuznetsky Most 20, Moscow
1972-87 XI-XVIII Book Graphics Exhibitions
1977 House of Culture of the I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
1984 Triennale Baltica Arts. Vilnius
1987 1st All-Union Graphics Exhibition, Moscow
1987 Bratislava International Biennale, Bratislava
1988 2nd All-Union Graphics Exhibition, Moscow
1988 “Soviet Graphic Artists”. Vienna, Austria
1989 “Soviet Graphic Artists”. Bologna, Italy
1989 International Graphic Exhibition. Berlin, Germany
1992 “Art-Modern” Gallery, Moscow
1992 “Three Views” (with I. Makarevich and O. Vasiliev). CSI, Moscow
1993 Norsk-Russisk Kunstsenter, Kirkenes, Norway
1993 Murmansk Art Museum, Murmansk
1993 “Moscow Collection” Gallery, Moscow
1995 “One World Many Visions”. The Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Silvermine, USA
1995 The 46th Art of Northeast. The Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Silvermine, USA
1997 “The World of Sensual Things in Pictures – the End of the 20th Century”, M'ARS Gallery. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (catalog)
1997 “The Golden Egg”. Exhibition of artists of the magazine “Chemistry and Life” 1965-1997. Central House of Artists, Moscow
1998 International Art Fair ART-MOSCOW, M'ARS Gallery. Maly Manezh, Moscow
Author about himself
If I insist on anything, it's on indecisiveness, on the absence of categoricalness and declarativity, when the work is like a phrase with an ellipsis at both the beginning and the end.
Critic
"Transcendental is, apparently, the flicker that arises between the real world with its smells and the artist's picture imbued with the scent of paint," as was noted. He shows the small, colorful world of paper scraps from his desk, even from the wastebasket. Scribbles of yet undefined ideas, fleeting plastic impressions, ink blots, pen or brush trials, fleeting memory notes... "Who among us has not gazed at or tried to frame a greasy stain?" the artist asks. Outlined, smoothed on spacious mats, these scraps gain compositional structure and, with it, a significance previously unknown to them. They assertively demand attention: not trash, but living traces of life in its elusive flow, moments of bygone existence, materialized Time.
Together with the artist, we also look more intently into ourselves, discover something important about ourselves to which we had previously paid no attention.
Yu. Gerchuk. From the catalogue of a solo exhibition at the "A 3" Gallery. Moscow, 1994.
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