Zorikto Dorzhiev was born in a family of artists in 1976 in the city of Ulan-Ude (Buryatia).
His father Balzhinim Dorzhiev is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Perhaps it was family culture and traditions that predetermined the life path of Zorikto, who decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents.
Own style of Zorikto Dorzhiev
The Buryat School of Culture and Arts, the Krasnoyarsk Art Institute, graduated with honors, internships in the creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts only honed the individual style of the Buryat nugget.
The Buryat artist Zorikto Dorzhiev in his works is close to the theme of nomadism. Moreover, the nomad for Zorikto Dorzhiev is an artist, poet, philosopher, a lonely contemplator. It is loneliness, according to the artist, that the most favorable condition of a person is conducive to reflection. The background in his creations often become endless steppes.
Pride of Buryatia
The artist Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose paintings are known in Russia, the USA, Australia and Germany and are the highlight of many private collections, embodies in his works a love of the boundless steppe, oriental tales and national legends.
In his creations, the artist personifies images saturated with the characteristic features of the culture of East and Central Asia: these are well-established folk images, laconic forms, restrained plastic. The heroes of his work seem to be closed and immersed in themselves. In addition to adherence to national Buryat traditions, the work of Zorikto Dorzhiev also traces the use of the expressive language of our time and the features of the academic school. It is the combination of these elements that allows us to escape from the repetition of tradition, creating mesmerizing works on the verge of fairy tales and reality, thanks to which the viewer is ready to admire the creations of the masterās hands again and again.
Spectator for Zorikto Dorzhiev
The artist Zorikto Dorzhiev believes that the viewer should not be passive when getting acquainted with his paintings, but think over what the author wanted to say, build certain logical chains, connections, interpret images, conjecture and negotiate the unsaid.
The artist does not have to chew everything: if he presents the prepared answer in the picture, then co-creation with the audience will not work. The dialogue will not take place, there will only be a monologue. You can not go on all the time with the viewer and think exclusively about him. Then what remains of the artist?
Exhibitor Zorikto Dorzhiev
The artworks were presented at many exhibitions of both regional and international level.
Often Zorikto Dorzhievās exhibitions are accompanied by catwalks featuring original costumes, Buryat ethnic music and throat singing, which creates a special atmosphere and only enhances the emotions conveyed by the author in his paintings, immersing the steppes and cultures of the people of Buryatia to the limitless world.
Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose biography is well known to connoisseurs of his work, already has many personal exhibitions behind him:
- 2004, Buryatia, Ulan ā Ude;
- 2006, Moscow, Embassy of the Republic of Mongolia ;
- 2007, Irkutsk - Regional Art Museum, Moscow - Museum of Oriental Art;
- 2008, Tomsk - Regional Art Museum, Council of Europe Art Galleries : Luxembourg, Brussels, Strasbourg;
- 2009, Moscow - Museum of Oriental Art, St. Petersburg - State Russian Museum, New York - Tibet House;
- 2010, Ulan ā Ude, Irkutsk;
- 2011, London - Hay Hill Gallery, Monaco - Galerie CarrƩ DorƩ;
- 2011 - 2012, Moscow, Irkutsk, Ulan ā Ude, in the main square of which a street exhibition of Dorzhievās works was opened;
- 2013, New York - Tibet House;
- 2014, Moscow - Council of the Federation.
A significant event in the artistās life, in which he did not believe until the last moment, was the opening of the exhibition āImaginary Realityā in the Tretyakov Gallery in January 2015.
Zorikto Dorzhiev: versatility and versatility
Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose paintings foreign guests are happy to buy, works in graphics, oil, book illustration, easel painting, sculpture and as an artist for films. He is the author of the costumes for the film "Mongol" by Sergey Bodrov (2004) and "Heavenly Wives of the Meadow Mari" by Alexei Fedorchenko (2012). Today, Dorzhiev is an ambassador and a symbol of Buryat traditions, a special phenomenon in the world art culture, declaring itself to the whole world. And it is very pleasant that people get acquainted with distant Buryatia and its friendly and smiling people through such sincere and bright images.
The contemporary view of the artist on oriental culture
Favorite stories of Dorzhiev: warriors, nomads, shepherds, archers, oriental women and heroes. And this is natural, because the origins of his family go into the world of the people of Buryatia with its ancient folk tales, legends and myths. The 21st-century artistās view of the ancient way of life and the customs of his people is slightly ironic; he rather thinks up the plots of his paintings, correlating them with existing epics, which allows us to tell the Asian myth in an accessible European language. Grotesque is one of the main artistic techniques that Zorikto Dorzhiev often uses in his own works.
The paintings are permeated with a bizarre combination of comic and sad, real and fictional, which leads to the special world of life and life of the Buryats. Once again, the viewer is convinced: there is nothing more understandable and democratic than a holistic and unspoiled picture of one of the sides of the planet shown through sincere and bright humor.
Oriental warriors in the paintings of the artist
Warriors ... Men ... Thick and thin, serious and funny, unpretentious, with protruding ears and legs, socks turned inwards. With weapons and uniforms. Full of dignity and self-esteem, because in every man at the genetic level is programmed a warrior who is currently sleeping. But only until a certain moment ... When a warrior wakes up, valor and strength, honor and courage will make him truly beautiful. In the meantime, the sleeping warrior is very organic in a peaceful native environment, which is not overshadowed by a threat from the outside. This picture is very moving and makes the viewer smile.
The theme of warriors and the boundless steppe is traced in many paintings by Dorzhiev. The steppe is one of the most difficult places for human habitation. Men and women living in its open spaces are forced to adapt, raise horses, cows, goats and sheep. Zorikto Dorzhiev shows the universality of his people, which in ancient times by means of conquest created the greatest empire, was ruthless to those who resist and favored the humble. After, imbued with Buddhist teachings, the religion of awareness and gentleness, these people became peaceful, open, happy and vulnerable. For centuries, Chinese moneylenders and merchants deceived them, then they lost everything because of Russian and Chinese imperialism and communist ideology.
One of the most expensive Russian artists
According to media reports, Zorikto Dorzhiev, whose paintings are gaining popularity and fame in many parts of the world, is considered one of the most popular and expensive artists in Russia. At a charity auction in New York, his work was sold for 40 thousand dollars, and Uma Thurman herself represented the work of the artist.