YURI GORBACHEV, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The Byrne Gallery is very proud to announce its 16th anniversary year with a celebration and exhibition of the vivid oil and enamel paintings of internationally known artist Yuri Gorbachev. The Gallery first began exhibiting his work in 2004 and now welcomes him back for his 8th one person show here in Middleburg, Virginia. New paintings from his 2011 museum exhibits will be featured and a special reception to honor him and this landmark anniversary will be held on Saturday, November 12th from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

2011 has been a remarkable year for the artist filled with many great honors, awards and invitations to explore his unique talent in expansive creative ways. The folkloric charm of his classically Russian inspired work resonates worldwide with an appreciation of his paintings and their applied uses of his magical imagery. The jewel like palette, the high gloss of his deeply enameled surfaces and joyful expression of fairytale subjects makes his work instantly lovable and recognizable. The Byrne Gallery applauds his lifetime achievements and looks forward to celebrating these wonderful events from 2011.

YURI GORBACHEV PAINTING, CZAR NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH WITH HIS FAMILY,
SELECTED FOR THE RUSSIAN MUSEUM, ST. PETERSBURG

Yuri Gorbachev was delighted to learn that his painting CZAR NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH WITH
HIS FAMILY, 50 x 66 inches, 1996, was selected for the permanent collection of the State Museum
of Russian Art in St Petersburg. Often called The Russian Museum, it is the largest and most
important collection of Russian art in the world.

A spotlight on Yuri’s body of work occurred at the end of 2010, when he was given a prestigious one man show and retrospective at the State Museum of City Sculpture in St. Petersburg. During the exhibition this painting was displayed and received wide acclaim. Over 30,000 people viewed and loved his work. Now, as a result of this exhibit, his masterpiece CZAR NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH WITH HIS FAMILY will be placed in the Russian Museum ‘s Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian art section among such great artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Pyotr Kuznetsov, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Robert Falk, Pavel Filonov and Marc Chagall.

The inclusion of this painting in The Russian Museum is a major step in Yuri Gorbachev’s artistic career. This achievement places him among the pantheon of contemporary Russian artists. The Russian Museum often has traveling exhibitions of its collections in Paris, London, New York and major museums worldwide providing  people from various nations  accessibility to Yuri’s unique style of painting.
Yuri is pleased to be able to bring his Museum Collection to the Byrne Gallery on November 12, 2011. He will include some paintings from the Romanov Dynasty series in this exhibition which are similar in subject matter and quality to the one selected by the Russian Museum. He began this collection of paintings in 1991 and continues today in 2011. This is the first time that these paintings will be exhibited in a private gallery since they have been shown only in museums until this time.

STOLICHNAYA VODKA FOUR ELEMENTS BY YURI GORBACHEV, WORLDWIDE PROMOTION

This year has been an exciting and productive year for Yuri. He was commissioned by Stolichnaya to create a new elite bottle and label called Four Elements by Yuri Gorbachev. His painting Four Elements provided the inspiration for the new bottle and label and has been advertised and promoted worldwide. It has become extremely popular and has been featured at airport events moving from Beirut to London to various European airports and coming to the United States shortly. He will have the new Stolichnaya bottles on display at the Byrne Gallery exhibition on display. In the tradition of Absolut Vodka’s creative advertising campaigns using cultural icons like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Yuri himself for their famous campaigns to promote their brand, Stolichnaya Vodka did a series of Christmas campaigns with Yuri’s paintings as advertisements in the 1990’s and have again chosen Yuri Gorbachev to represent their brand by designing their new label for Stolichnaya Red Vodka, Four Elements by Yuri Gorbachev. Michel Roux, the former CEO of Carillon Importers, distributors of Absolut and then Stolichnaya Vodka in the United States, described Yuri Gorbachev as “…the Angel from Russia. He brings out whatever is good from there. The spirit, the subject matter, and the colors of his work-profound in their simplicity-exemplify what Russia is all about.”      
 

THE ODESSA NATIONAL ACADEMIC THEATRE OF OPERA AND BALLET CHOOSES ARTIST YURI GORBACHEV

The Odessa National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet and the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre, both famous worldwide for their splendid operas and ballets, and for the beauty of the theatres themselves, have asked Yuri Gorbachev to be the main artist/designer of costumes, sets, and all decorations for the ballets Firebird, which is so quintessentially Russian in its themes and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring which of course was made legendary by the great Russian dancer Nijinsky in the early 1900s. Each ballet will be one act and the ballet company will travel around the world to be seen in places like New York, London, Paris, Madrid, China, Singapore etc. Yuri’s vibrant colors and gorgeous designs will be spectacular as part of these great cultural events.
The ballets will take place in 2013.

YURI GORBACHEV EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART (MORA), NEW YORK CITY

In 2011, Yuri Gorbachev’s spectacular solo show, “Museum Collection 2011” at the Museum of Russian Art (MORA) in NY was attended by a record breaking 23,000 people from New York City as well as visitors from throughout the United States and around the world.