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Untitled Gallery Presents Exhibition of Pasmur Rachuiko

Untitled Gallery hosts the solo exhibition of Pasmur Rachuiko in their new space.
 
"Sometimes places, streets, cities, and people that are familiar and close to us fall into a zone of absolute invisibility when they become routine. We pass through them without noticing anything, while there is probably something unusual happening there that is not available to us. Boring views turn out to be a mystical zone of (not)visibility – and this is exactly the cross-section of reality that the artist Pasmur Rachuiko works with.
 
In his work, the paintings are not divided into series. They flow in a single stream, in tune with his own life. The artist wanders through the streets, eavesdropping, spying, catching fragments of other people's conversations, or starting his own. He absorbs life, fixing it with the methods of art, which transfer ordinary things to another, sacred level.
 
In his work, Pasmur creates myth from the echoes of everyday life. Its inhabitants are mysterious entities that cause us anxiety and they seem painfully familiar. The artist removes them from the flow of life as jewels and endows them with symbols of power. Ordinary people sprout wings, receive crowns, and rise to the heavenly pantheon from where they look at us with their humble faces.
 
In Rachuiko's paintings, the human characters coexist with the animals. They freeze in poses familiar to us from the paintings of the great masters. They are symbols, markers of the place, or events that gave the artist inspiration for the work. The viewer can only guess this by looking at the portrait of a cat or by marveling at the mating of dogs in the picture. The paintings of Pasmur are figurative and autonomous; their inhabitants are able to speak for themselves, but you still need to allow yourself to understand their language.
 
The artist has been creating his own pantheon for many years. We look at his creations and once again freeze before the image of a young courier, a young man with a haze in his eyes, in whom we immediately want to believe.", - the text is presented by art-critique, curator, and artist Anastasia Vepreva.
 
Pasmur Rachuiko was born 1986 in Rostov-on Don. He got an education at the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts.
 
Pasmur has been working in painting since 2012, using a subjectivist pantheon of symbolic characters and pop culture memes, among which self-portraits occupy a key position, being placed in the context of issues surrounding gender, social and national identity.
 
As well as painting, the artist carries out performances using locally foraged foods as media, such as snails and nettles.

Works by the artist are held in private and museum collections in Coldrerio (Switzerland), Milan (Italy), Kiev (Ukraine), San Francisco and Philadelphia (USA), Moscow and St. Petersburg (Russia).

Currently, Pasmur is based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
 
The exhibition opens on the 17th of April from 15:00 till 20:00 and will continue till the 5th of May.