Abstract paintings by Yuri Yudaev / 24.06.2013

Y u r i   Y u d a e v 

2. Abstraction

Two major exhibitions seriously affected my pictorial method at the turn of the 80s and 90s.
First - refined designed exhibition 1989 of European New Realists «The Zero group» from The Lenz Schönberg Collection.
The second - a huge «The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932», which opened in 1993 (after decades of dull silence), Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century in its entirety.
So make the transition from «the world of flesh and bone» to the disembodied space of pure freedom and to the reality of boundlessness. Of course, this «pure delight» was spiced up a fair amount of irony, produced over the years to mass media access, refracted in the hyper-realism.


          
Sail. 1996. Gouache on paper, 96 x 49 cm.                    Cyan check. 1995. Gouache on paper, 60 x 21 cm.


Mask. 1998. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 57 x 37 cm.


Nine pentagons. 1995. Gouache on paper, 57 x 37 cm.


Construction (Yellow-Brown-Blue). 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 58 x 40 cm.


Untitled (Red Check). 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 59 x 40 cm.


Hyiroglyph. 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 58 x 39 cm.


Untitled (Nephrite). 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 55.5 x 38.5 cm.


Eleven (White construction). 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 57 x 40 cm.


Twelve. 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 58 x 39 cm.


Acuity. 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 57 x 39.5 cm.


Polychrome construction.1998. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 56.5 x 41 cm.


Terracotta construction. 1995. Gouache, emulsion white on paper, 84 х 59 cm.


Space construction (Monochrome / Brown). 1997. Maimeri Polycolor acrylic on paper, 83 x 58 cm.


Skier with yellow hair. 1996. Gouache on paper, 83 х 59 cm.


Trajectories / Orbits 1996. Gouache on paper, 83 x 58.5 cm.


Pattern / Grating #42 - II. 2012. Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm.

 
Swelter (Esquisse). 2011. Watercolor on paper, 29 х 41 см.


Space layers. 1996. Watercolor on paper, 83 х 58,5 cm.


Red washes / Memories (Reminiscence). 1996. Watercolor on paper, 83 x 59 cm.