Alexander Zhurkin Biography

The content and shape of him merged into the original picturesque - light and compositional - Amalgam. Virtuoso ownership of the material - screening air painting, the gift to see the invisible - the features of Zhurgin's creative handwriting. He was inexplicable with deep scrupulousness and veneration, without crossing the ghostly borders of the tact, musicality and incredible softness to please surrealistic cardusianism.

The whirlpool of mystical hem-sulfates gives the viewer I want to say the right to dream, “create” with these masterfully written, irreal, at the same time to the strangeness of real, paintings, from inconsolable-groups to complete bright ecstatic feeling. Sasha was "full of music, muse and flour." Inner torment in the struggle for the beautiful. It was a deep contemplator, very calm in appearance, which bore deep love for the whole earthly world and turned it invisible miracles into exquisite science fiction.

According to friends, he could "find perfection in any winding snag." The spatial plans of his paintings, which are acting as holograms, one because of the other, resemble the cuts of minerals, their finest tonal and color transitions, as traces of the time itself: “barely tangible, sweet web of associations”, according to Lyalya Galeeva. His “muse”, the talented sculptor Lyalya Galeev, speaks about his works: “I could try to decipher the content of the works of Alexander Zhurkin.

But, is it possible, stopping near the stain of mold or already faded moss near the wall of the old house, to explain whose profile you saw in color stains, whose face, emerging from the depths, suddenly looked at you in the heart? The carefree, courteous “hippari” with suspicious ideas, lovers of blues and philosophical vigils, they were truly “cosmic” idols of young times of “Solaris” and “Pincluda”.

Zhigulin and Zhurbin! Zhurkin and Zhigulin! They were beautiful, like that era itself, brightly embodying the outcasts by it ... The then more experienced artists, Volodya Zhigulin and Mikhail Spiridonov, helped Sasha grow in the field of technical picturesque skills. And he was always conducted by an amazing artistic intuition, the desire for perfection, called magnificent artistic taste, and he loved to study.

Sobolevskaya: “Among the Ufa intelligentsia - the director of the planetarium A. Denisov gained popularity in the beginning of x, when he ordered Vladimir Zhigulin and Alexander Zhurkin a panel for the interior of the observatory. It would seem that this is special? The fact was that these artists did under the influence of no less outcast, for example, Salvador Dali and Andrei Tarkovsky.

Official art was also irritated by their fascination with Renaissance, specifically by the painting of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli. This explosive mixture formed the basis of the artistic language of their brainchild, called "Aelita" to follow the progress of the work, young artists, by the way, comrades Yuri Shevchuk. Even I have been listed more than once to participate in hot discussions.

A lot of good people then went to the planetarium! In the year, at the end of the work, saying goodbye to the place of familiar meetings, the artists signed the manifesto of genialism, a kind of project of the cultural revolution and the eternal brotherhood of artists. ” Time was absorbed by the fraternity of the outcasts, and many epoch -making events and people, but still did not absorb with his head.

For many, these were the search for truth, Absolute, the affirmation of their own style and artistic principles has matured. He says Lyalya Asadullina, an artist, friend and colleague of Zhurgin at work, causing a completely different, “holographic”, a layer of time: “Many years ago, in the middle of x, I met an amazing couple of artists, Lyalya and Sasha Zhurbin. Our communication grew into friendship, and I am grateful to fate for this.

In our conversations about music, about art, Sasha often talked about his beloved artist Leonardo da Vinci. In the works, he followed the same screening writing with such a subtle work of details and a light -air perspective that the smears are almost not visible. All his paintings are made at the highest professional level. In - gg. We were brought there not so much a religious worship, but probably the search for truth, as well as the desire to earn a little, since the paintings were practically not sold.

For three years, Sanya every day, in addition to weekends, came to the television center from Chernikovka. Then I saw how he works: meticulous, slowly, subtle, in a word, perfectionist in the best sense of the word. He worked in special glasses for jewelers, and, no matter how high the icon in the temple was, he brought work to perfection, not understanding how to neglect details.

He got deep images of St. Peter and Paul, Moses, St. Trinity and others ... At the same time, he began to receive his small pension. I remember his simple -minded joy because money is just like that. In everyday life, he was content with small. Despite the natural softness, he did not tolerate rudeness and aggression. Key quality is boundless kindness. ” Created for creativity, not for the sake of recognition.The rarest talent is a man, magical ...

”Lyalya Galeeva. After the death, he was called an angel who joined the host of his own kinds in heaven in his last paintings in the faces of Likov you can recognize the features of Alexander himself. The heritage of this amazing artist needs detailed examination and study. Every year it becomes more and more attractive and mysterious, like the divine game of the sun's beam in heaven full of clouds.

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