2 Oct - 8 Oct 2017

Prints of the East

“Thanks to this exhibition, we can see the transfer of Professor Ma Chzhimin from the early traditional expressive techniques to modern methods of expressiveness, filled with obvious cultural reflections - this is precisely the painters bright pictorial language, which has an “Prints of the East”. The images in the paintings of Ma Chzhimin do not have an unequivocal meaning, but they create a visual texture of roughness, dryness, old age, naturalness, and also the effect of weathering. That is how the unusual oriental images merged with the expressiveness of Western painting. ” Liao Chzhendin (Ph.D. in Art History, Honorary Professor at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after AI Herzen, teacher of oil painting at the Art Institute of Jiangxi Pedagogical University, director of the International Education Center”

Reporting on St. Petersburg TV Channel

Ma Chzhimin

Professor Ma Chzhimin is the dean of the Jiangxi Pedagogical University Art Institute, the head of the master's programs, a member of the Union of Chinese Painters, and the deputy head of the Oil Painting Committee of the Union of Painters of Jiangxi Province. The work of Professor "The Cellar in the house of the grandmother" in 2004 received the bronze award of the tenth All-China Art Exhibition. Ma Chzhimin, as a professor and author of many paintings, is known not only in Jiangxi Province, but enjoys fame throughout China. Mr. Ma Chzhimin studied under the bachelor’s and master’s degrees fine arts and the color system influenced by the “Soviet Trend”. The artist has extensive practical experience and high theoretical training. Ma Chzhimin speaks as an academic representative. Over time, Ma Chzhimin decided to move away from three-dimensional space and begin to create the effect of a two-dimensional plane. The artist began to express the inconceivable mood and ideas of traditional Chinese painting in the modern language of oil painting, seeking to discover its differences with Western expressionism.