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About painter

"My art is manifestation of what I realize. The core conception is natural, imponderable and independent art, the goal being to depict and express the obscure. A picture is both a mirror and a door: either vain attempts or natural beauty can be seen therein. Welcome to the open world".

Yura Zhegalin was born in 1969 at the Volga in the family of teachers. He had enjoyed drawing since early childhood, but did not study that anywhere. In 1984 when he was 15 he painted a collection of icons in his secret studio in the attic of the boarding school of the Physics and Mathematics school affiliated to the Moscow State University. Disclosed by the administration he had to destroy the pictures in the teeth of expulsion. 10 years thereafter were spent without painting. He studied in the Moscow State University and other high schools; several times dismissed he would reenter again. The future painter got a degree in Mathematics at the Ulyanovsk State Teachers Training Institute. When 25 years old he turned to painting back again inspired by the changes in his life. After moving to Moscow in 2000 he worked for popular slick magazines as a color corrector. In October, 2008, he entered "Russia Art Week" contest and won third prize for his picture "A Fish" in "Pro" category, "Conceptual Art" nomination.