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Dmitrienko Rurik

"A painting is a story to tell about colors and shapes. "

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Notes of biography

On his first name - and artist’s name - Rurik chooses not to add his last name, in order to avoid confusion! Born in 1960 in Dieudonné (Oise), Rurik has always bathed in an artistic atmosphere. His mother, famous actress and comedian, collaborates at the ORTF as a film director, his father, Pierre Dmitrienko, is the known Russian painter.
As a child, Rurik still remembers a trip to Spain with his parents, to the Prado Museum in particular and a triptych by Jérôme Bosch which he returns to see with emotion many years later. His father has his workshop in the Bastille district (Paris), the young boy spends there almost his entire youth. Rurik naturally studies at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. He is 19 years old when his first solo exhibition is devoted to him (Galery of the City, Luxembourg).
He then regularly exhibits in solo exhibitions (France, USA, Italy, Switzerland) and in group exhibitions in France and abroad. The young artist is awarded the Lubiam prize (Mantua, Italy) in 1980, then the Feneon price (Paris) in 1983. That same year (1983), and for two years, he is a resident of the Villa Medici, the Academy of France in Rome. Rurik paints, experiments: the artist always considers his work as a true pictorial research, preferring the word "non-figuratif" to the word "abstract" to describe his way, a story to tell about colors and shapes.
Rurik works mostly in oil, because he likes, as he says, "the volatility of the solvent, the gasoline." In successive periods, he likes to paint with the light of the paper and, in particular, the let go of watercolor. Along with his own artistic life, Rurik conducts a thorough job on the work of Pierre Dmitrienko, his father; he has, among other things, the project to realize the complete listing catalog of the works of the latter. Rurik lives and works in Aubervilliers, a north suburb of Paris; an immense workshop, part of an old factory, gives him the luxury of space needed to paint, to dream, to live simply.
For our part, we believe that the art of Rurik, without denying the past - quite the contrary - has managed to distance itself from his own descent who places it, with patience and courage, stone by stone, foot by foot.

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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

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Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Travaux sur papier - Objets - ... », D. Bloch, cat.. coll., Villeparisis, 1981
  • « Rurik » in cat. d’expo. coll., Feria Internacional de Madrid, 1985
  • « Rurik », cat. d’exposition Joan Prat Gallery, New York, 1985
  • « Rurik » in cat. d’expo. coll., Arte fiera de Bologne, 1986
  • « Rurik » in cat. d’expo. coll., Foire Europ. d’Art Cont., Strasbourg, 2000
  • « Rurik », cat. d’exposition J.E. Bernard, Avignon, 2002
  • « Rurik », cat. d’exposition Henry Bussière, Paris, 2004
  • « Rurik », cat. d’exposition Aiguillage, Paris, 2005
  • « Picturalement persistant », E. Guignet, in Aubermensuel, n° 171, Avril 2007
To read from the artist :
  • « Megalithes & chaos », photographies de Rurik Dmitrienko, 2014 (voir issus)
  • « Mémorial », photographies de Rurik Dmitrienko, 2014 (voir issus)
Website :
No website dedicated to the artist.

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