Yury Khorev is one of successfully working contemporary artists in Estonia, who has found his own place in the world of art in recent years. He has been residing in Estonia since 1957. Kohtla-Jarve School of Art and Moscow University of Arts (1985) have formed aesthetic views of Yury Khorev.
His works have been shown on annual exhibitions in Johvi branch of Estonian State Museum of Creative Arts since 1987 as well in group exhibitions in Norderhtadt (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Staffentorp (Sweden), Minsk (Belarus), New York (USA). Since 2014 - member of the board of the Association of Russian Artists of Estonia
2005 - Ida Virumaa Culture Prize Laureate
2019 - Ida Virumaa Culture Prize Laureate
1997 - first personal exhibition in the White Hall of Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
1998 - personal exhibition in the Art Gallery of Narva, Estonia
2000 - personal exhibition in the White Hall of Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
2001 - personal exhibition in the Legend Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2002 - personal exhibition in the DECO gallery (From the collection of M. Millius) Tallinn, Estonia
2002 - personal exhibition in the gallery Põlend Ruum Tallinn, Estonia
2004 - personal exhibition in the city gallery of Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
2006 - personal exhibition in the gallery of the Russian Centre of Culture, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 - personal exhibition in the city gallery of Kohtla-Järve “White Hall”, Estonia
2012 - personal exhibition in the Art Gallery of Narva, Estonia
2016 - personal exhibition in the Art Gallery of Narva
2017 - personal exhibition in the White Hall of the Kohtla-Järve Gallery
2018 - personal exhibition in the A-Art Gallery of Narva, Estonia
2018 - personal exhibition in the White Hall of the Kohtla-Järve Gallery
2019 - personal exhibition in the gallery of Architecture and Design, Tallinn, Estonia
2020 - Tallinn Biennial, Estonia
Many paintings are kept in private collections in Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, France, Russia, the USA.
The language of visible metaphors.
Our time has formed a special type of artist - a universal artistic personality, a dreamer and a practitioner at the same time, who is capable of creating genuine works and transforming the most prosaic everyday objects into art phenomena. The talent itself shows him the way of self-expression - with a brush on the canvas or with a finger on a dusty mirror. In any case, it gives a sense of the rationality of the world Such an artist is Yury Khorev. His work is similar to chamber music: it is limited in size, but it has innumerable variations ... Picturesque minimalism, coming from the nature of the graphic, determines the author’s manner, and the painting itself seems to be time thickened within the canvas.
At first glance, the artist is guided by the principle of saving the subject vocabulary and pictorial-plastic means. He needs enough - just enough to say: this is a tree, this is a bird. But precisely because of their simplicity, these forms imitate each other and gradually exchange meanings. Intuitively or consciously, he creates such a picturesque environment in which everyone lives a double life. He knows how to connect the image with an internal rhythm, avoid plastic voids, beat the figures that arise in the interdisciplinary space, and perfectly uses the capabilities of texture.
The apparent paradox of his picturesque minimalism is that the abstracting principle of composition gets along with a very concrete representation of things. Reducing the outlines and volumes to elementary geometry, limiting the palette to monochrome, he so carefully cultivates the surface of the canvas that objects seem to be seen point blank. All superfluous leaves. There are barely perceptible traces, melting memories from what they saw, a plastic scheme that reflects the artist’s look - ironic, understanding or sad. Almost all of his work fits in a small rectangle - a close-up is allowed here.
The painting of Yury Khorev can be called the art of small experiences and private emotions and moods, of which, however, a large common thing is formed.
