Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute

Well, the arts capital of the Southern Urals moved to Arch? "Arch" today – is the center of cultural attraction for many people – notes Head of the Museum of Man and Nature, Gennady Zdanowicz – because, wishing the visit of the reserve was not only a pilgrimage in history, but also by contact with contemporary art. … And the frustration In any exercise in futility to strive for divinity, or for him not to take. Paul Valery The biggest disappointment last year was the exhibition Vadim Shmygina Non Fiction, held in Chelyabinsk Gallery "Stone Belt" (February 2009). Vadim Shmygina star rose in the early 1990s. Significant for the fate of the artist's development was his Moscow exhibition "From thought to the way", after which was published in Moscow a small album with three introductory articles – and one of them wrote a critic Vitaly Patsukov (1993). Then followed a long string of European shows, which ended at the end of 1990.

Especially Vadim Shmygina well received in Paris, the Louvre had even arranged a temporary virtual exhibition of his work. Vadim Shmygin considered the creator of a special artistic language – "archaic and semantic visualization. " His relief paintings (often played on the canvas, at least – on the cardboard), covered with inscriptions psevdoarhaicheskimi, with what can not be confused. Although the technique is not unique Shmygina writing, his work captivating unusual shaped feed material. That is why the 90s was an innovator Vadim Shmygin of Major League art world. I must say that the art of Vadim Shmygin came from – the engineer in the past (he graduated from Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute), Shmygin not even received a minimum of arts education: it is nowhere and no one has learned, being completely self-taught. But there is no sin in it was not until he was engaged non-objective painting and discovered new forms of lying to the side of academic art.