2019
acrylic on canvas
100 × 100 cm
156,000 ₽
In Ashtray, Gena captures a moment of transition: someone has just left or is about to arrive. The silence carries a reference to Edward Hopper: the same pause, the same loneliness of an interior where an object keeps the memory of a person even when no one is there.
1996, Moscow. Lives and works in Moscow
Gena Zhuk is an artist who has built his own visual language where irony meets strict compositional discipline. His painting is a flat surface filled with air and inner tension, where simplicity of form is the main tool. Gena captures states in which time seems to stop and the line between reality and its symbolic reflection fades. Having started with graffiti on the street in 2009, Zhuk has focused on studio work…
