Today Gallery “Art Prima” opens the first exhibition of the Distinguished Artist of Russia Alexei Alexandrovich Zhabskogo

Today, Gallery «Art Prima» opens the first exhibition of the Distinguished Artist of Russia Alexei Alexandrovich Zhabskogo (1933-2008) in the exhibition hall of the Artists' Union of Russia. On display are more than 70 works from the collection of galleries «Art Prima» and private collections - are landscapes, still lifes, portraits, paintings by famous series «Children of War. 1943 ».

Alexei Zhabsky wrote in his autobiography: «I was born March 20, 1933 in Siberia, in the village of Oleksandrivka Kargatskogo district of Novosibirsk region in the working family. His father was a lineman for the railroad. The family lived in a railroad booth that stood alone near the town of Kargat. From the porch booth and started the field stretched to the horizon. On the other side booth rustled endless forest. Since the recall itself, painted. One father brought me from Moscow's gift - a red pencil, and I am not to part with him until the remains of a pencil is one crumb ».

Creativity Alexei Zhabskogo well-known artists and collectors, despite the fact that he did not have any personal exhibition. The highest artistic level of his extraordinary work and personal modesty has long made his name legendary. Small-sized elegant still lifes and landscapes Zhabskogo has consistently attracted the attention of professionals and amateurs of painting in all the major of Moscow and Russian art exhibitions, became the object of close scrutiny. Paintings by Alexei Alexandrovich, of course, belongs to romantic realism, and a collection of his works organically will join the exhibition «Romantics realism» in Saint Petersburg and Vologda in summer 2009.

The exhibition in the exhibition hall of the Artists' Union of Russia (Pokrovka, 37) can be visited from 16 April to May 6, 2009 Monday to Friday from 12.00 to 19.00, Saturday from 12.00 to 18.00. Sunday - day off.

Source: artprima.ru