Shtager&Shch is pleased to announce Fields, a solo presentation of new paintings and works on paper by Russian artist Vitaly Pushnitsky. The exhibition will be accompanied by a book of the same name.
With his compositions of horizontal lines and colour fields that oscillate between barren landscapes and vibrant dreamscapes, Pushnitsky invites us to turn our gaze inwards to explore what lies beyond the horizon. By reducing each scene to a minimum of marks and hues with horizontal lines the main point of reference, the artist hints at a visual continuity of time and space, past and present.
As art historian Maria Borshchevska writes in her exhibition text “in this seemingly apolitical series, Pushnitsky’s intense introspection betrays an emphatic desire to locate one’s identity and morality in response to the immanent present”.
Fields reflects the artist’s renewed interest in the relationship between introspective gaze and physical perception and concludes a body of work that commenced in 2018 with Forest and continued with Garden in 2022.
Vitaly Pushnitsky (b. 1967) is recognised as one of Russia’s leading contemporary artists. A graduate of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, he was selected for the Venice Biennale (2015), the Baltic Biennale (2006, 2016) as well as for the the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005, 2007) and the parallel program of Manifesta 10 in 2014. Solo exhibitions include the State Russian Museum, State Hermitage Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum, St Petersburg. His work is held in prestigious private and public collections. Publications include Phaidon’s 2011 survey of the best new painting.
Marina Shtager established Shtager Gallery in London in 2017 with a vision of facilitating cross-border discourse in the visual arts. In 2022 Shtager was joined by Anna Shchilova and the gallery re-opened as Shtager&Shch at new premises in London’s Fitzrovia in April this year.
Building on a reputation of introducing contemporary Eastern European artists to the British public the expanded gallery program encourages interdisciplinary and inter-generational conversations between emerging and established artists from across the globe.
Gallery open times are 11am to 6pm Wednesday to Friday and 11am to 5pm on Saturdays.
