Yevgeny Rastorguev is a representative of the liberal wing of the Moscow Branch of the RSFSR Artists’ Union. He studied at Moscow State Art Institute; he started exhibiting straight upon graduation, .
Rastorguev appears before the spectators as an extraordinary fantasist trying to modernize the unsophisticated life of the Russian province; his characters are from the first quarter of the twentieth century, peasants, vendors, dandies, hairdressers, magicians and card players, who, nonetheless, show traits of our contemporaries. For him, these traits are a manifestation of Russian mentality and, therefore, part of today’s world.
Besides paintings, the exhibition will present sculptures based on traditional forms of Gorodets clay toys. The small sculptures combine traditional and modern imagery. Typical of them is a specific technique, its main forming element, reminiscent of a ceramic milk vessel.
The Playing with the Clouds is a display of works united by a peculiar perception of time and space, imbued with good-natured humor and reverence to both past and present.
The exhibition will present over thirty paintings and thirteen sculptures by Rastorguev, created during the four decades starting from the 1970s.