The Russian Academy Of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, 21 Prechistenka street, presents a retrospective of works by the Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation Evgeni Bachurin created by him in the 1960s – 2010. The celebrated singer poet and artist Evgeni Bachurin belongs to the generation of the sixties. His creative work is integral, in his painting and poetry he personifies his own world. “The solitude of soul in a silent landscape” is the definition of his main theme given by the artist himself.

Evgeni Bachurin was born in Leningrad in 1934. In 1959 he graduated from the Moscow Polytechnic Institute. Bachurin worked as an artist-illustrator for periodical press and book publishers, and as a graphic artist. In 1967 he started writing poems, songs and short stories. Since 1985 he has devoted himself solely to painting. He is a frequent exhibitor in art shows in Russia and other countries, including his solo exhibitions in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Boston (the United States), Sochi, Ulyanovsk, Paris (France).

The majority of Evgeni Bachurin’s paintings contains images of his childhood, combining the feelings of happiness and anxiety. The tiny world of a concrete man seen through eyes of a child grows up to the global scales of the entire country’s life. The individual image of characters becomes obliterated, nameless and almost impersonal they have the seal of a spiritual climate of the time, its morals and tastes. The artist’s works are full of irony and nostalgia for the past and instantaneity of our earthly existence.

As the composer Dmitry Shostakovich wrote about Evgeni Bachurin, “his pictures, songs, poems are an integral alloy of music, poetry and painting that can be hardly imagined separated from each other”.

Evgeni Bachurin’s works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, A. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and other Russian museums, as well as in private collections and museums in Germany, the United States, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Japan.

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