Rusich Dmitriy

Biography

Dmitry Nikolaevich Rusich was born in Moscow in 1958. A reclusive artist with sociopathic tendencies, he is extremely reluctant to talk about his past. For this reason, some of the information about him may be inaccurate and incomplete. Currently he lives in a remote village on Valdai.
He began painting in the art studio at the House of Pioneers in Agricultural Lane. In his childhood and youth, he actively exhibited in schools, housing offices, cinemas, and pioneer homes. In different periods of his work, famous Russian artists Vladimir Alekseevich Vasiliev and Anatoly Timofeevich Zverev were his teachers and mentors.
He participated in many apartment and street exhibitions from 1970 to 1980, in particular, the outdoor exhibition in Izmailovsky Park, which took place on September 29, 1974. This exhibition went down in the history of underground unofficial art as "four hours of freedom" and was called in the Western press "Soviet Woodstock", an exhibition of nonconformists, first allowed by the Soviet government and not destroyed like a Bulldozer two weeks earlier.
In 1975 he entered the Art Academy. Surikov. But almost immediately, an order came for his expulsion based on the fact that one of the teachers who was on duty on the Izmailovskaya metro platform a year ago recognized him as one of the participants in the sensational Izmailovskaya exhibition in the park.
In 1982, he became one of the defendants in the case initiated under the article "Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." The criminal case collapsed, but Rusich had to learn all the "charms" of punitive psychiatry.
After these events, he did not exhibit at all for several years. The next exhibition was held only in 1986 after the beginning of Gorbachev's perestroika in the Lefortovo interest association under the executive committee of the Kalininsky District Council of Moscow.
Currently, the artist Dmitry Rusich is actively exhibiting. He regularly participates in both collective exhibitions and personal exhibitions. His works are in the collections of art and historical museums in the following cities: Volokolamsk, Borovsk, Novomoskovsk, Firovo; as well as in private collections in Russia, Belgium, Holland, China and Poland. Dmitry Rusich is a resident of the galleries "Russian Gallery XXI century" and "Alpert Gallery".
Struggling with the bureaucratic and everyday lies of his time, the artist Rusich abolished the logic of the geometry of three-dimensional space. For Dmitry Rusich, nonconformism is a way of seeing the reality around him. It is familiar to him and it is not particularly important that his Work is not well understood. After all, in modern society, people are used to what they have, and they don't want to change anything because they feel so comfortable. Society is afraid of change, it always has been, and always will be.
Painting for him was and still is, if not the only love, then the attachment and meaning of his whole life.