Artist Zorikto Dorzhiev: paintings and works

Zorikto Dorzhiev was born in the family of artists in 1976 in the city of Ulan-Ude (Buryatia). His father Balzhinim Dorzhiev is a deserved artist of the Russian Federation. Perhaps it was family culture and traditions that predetermined the life of Zorikto, who decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents.

Zorikto Dorzhiev's own style

Buryat College of Culture and Arts, Krasnoyarsk Art Institute, graduated with honors, internships in the creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts have only honed the individual style of the Buryat nugget.

Buryat artist Zorikto Dorzhiev in his works is close to the theme of nomadism. And the nomad for Zorikto Dorzhiev is an artist, poet, philosopher, lone contemplative. It is loneliness, according to the artist, the most favorable state of a person, which has to think. The background in his works often become boundless steppe spaces.

Pride of Buryatia

Artist Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose paintings are known in Russia, the United States, Australia and Germany and are the highlight of many private collections, embodies in his works the love of the boundless steppe, oriental tales and national legends. In his creations, the artist personifies images saturated with the characteristic features of the culture of East and Central Asia: they are well-established folk images, laconic forms, restrained plastic. The heroes of his works seem to be closed and immersed in themselves. In addition to adherence to national Buryat traditions, Zorikto Dorzhiev's creativity traces the use of the expressive language of modernity and the features of the academic school. It is the combination of these elements that makes it possible to avoid the repetition of tradition, creating fascinating works on the verge of a fairy tale and reality, thanks to which the spectator again and again is ready to admire the creations of the master's hand.

Spectator for Zorikto Dorzhiev

Artist Zorikto Dorzhiev believes that the viewer should not be passive when getting acquainted with his paintings, and think out what the author wanted to say, build certain logical chains, connections, interpret images, think out and negotiate the unspoken. The artist should not chew everything: if he presents a prepared answer in the picture, then the co-creation with the viewer will not work. The dialogue will not take place, there will be only a monologue. You can not always go on about the viewer and think only of him. Then what will remain of the artist?

Participant of exhibitions Zorikto Dorzhiev

The artist's paintings were presented at many exhibitions, both regional and international. Often the exhibition Zorikto Dorzhieva accompanies the defile with the show of author's costumes, Buryat ethnic music and throat singing, which creates a special atmosphere and only strengthens the emotions conveyed by the author in his paintings, immersing the steppes and cultures of the people of Buryatia to the boundless world as much as possible.

Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose biography is well known to connoisseurs of his work, already has many personal exhibitions behind his shoulders:

• 2004, Buryatia, Ulan-Ude;
• 2006, Moscow, Embassy of the Republic of Mongolia ;
• 2007, Irkutsk - Art Regional Museum, Moscow - Museum of Oriental Art;
• 2008, Tomsk - Art Regional Museum, Art Galleries of the Council of Europe: Luxembourg, Brussels, Strasbourg;
• 2009, Moscow - Museum of Oriental Art, St. Petersburg - State Russian Museum, New York - Tibet House;
• 2010, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk;
• 2011, London - Hay Hill Gallery, Monaco - Galerie Carré Doré;
• 2011 - 2012, Moscow, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, on the main square of which the street exhibition of Dorzhiev's works was opened;
• 2013, New York - Tibet House;
• 2014, Moscow - the Federation Council.

A significant event in the life of the artist, to which he did not believe until the last moment, was the opening in the Tretyakov Gallery of the exhibition "The Imaginary Reality" in January 2015.

Zorikto Dorzhiev: diversity and versatility

Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose pictures are sold with pleasure by foreign guests, works in graphics, oil, book illustrations, easel painting, sculpture and as an artist for movies. He is the author of costumes for the film "Mongol" by Sergei Bodrov (2004) and "Heavenly wives of meadow Mary" Alexei Fedorchenko (2012). Dorzhiev is today an ambassador and a symbol of the Buryat traditions, a special phenomenon in the world art culture, which claims to be the world's one. And it is very pleasant that people with distant Buryatia and its friendly and smiling people get acquainted through such sincere and bright images.

The artist's contemporary view of Eastern culture

Favorite subjects Dorzhieva: warriors, nomads, shepherds, archers, oriental women and heroes. And this is natural, because the origins of his family go to the world of the people of Buryatia with its ancient folk legends, legends and myths. The view of the artist of the 21st century on the ancient way of life and customs of his people is slightly ironic, he rather thinks up the plot of his paintings, relating them to existing epic novels, which allows him to tell the Asian myth in an accessible European language. Grotesque is one of the main artistic techniques that Zorikto Dorzhiev often uses in his own works. The paintings are permeated with a bizarre combination of comical and sad, real and imaginary, which leads to a special world of life and life of the Buryats. Once again the viewer is convinced: there is nothing more understandable and democratic than the holistic and unspoiled picture shown by sincere and light humor of one of the sides of the planet.

Eastern warriors in the paintings of the artist

Warriors ... Men ... Thick and thin, serious and cheerful, plain, with protruding ears and legs, turned toes inward. With weapons and in uniform. Executed dignity and self-esteem, because in every man at the genetic level a warrior is programmed, who at this time is asleep. But only up to a certain point ... When a warrior wakes up, his valor and strength, honor and courage will truly make him. While the sleeping warrior is very organic in a peaceful native environment, which is not overshadowed by the threat from outside. This picture is very touching and brings a smile to the viewer.

The theme of warriors and the boundless steppe can be traced in many of Dorzhiev's paintings. The steppe is one of the most difficult places for human habitation. Living on its expanses, men and women are forced to adapt, breed horses, cows, goats and sheep. Zorikto Dorzhiev shows the universality of his people, who in times immemorial, by means of conquests, created the greatest empire, was ruthless towards the resisting and favorable to the submissive. After, imbued with Buddhist teachings, a religion of awareness and gentleness, these people became peaceful, open, happy and vulnerable. Over the centuries, they were deceived by Chinese money-lenders and traders, then they lost everything because of Russian and Chinese imperialism and communist ideology.

One of the expensive artists of Russia

According to the media, Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose pictures gain popularity and fame in many corners of the world, is considered one of the most sought-after and expensive artists of Russia. At the Charity Auction in New York, his work was sold for 40 thousand dollars, and the artist herself represented Uma Thurman.