Дмитрий Кедрин

Dmitriy Kedrin. Painting

On December 3, the “13.20” Gallery at Quattro space (13 Myasnitskaya St., Building 20, Moscow) will open the exhibition “Painting” by Dmitriy Kedrin, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (Section of Painting).

The exhibition presents works from two periods of Dmitriy Kedrin’s artistic career: fresh abstract compositions from 2024 and 2025, as well as earlier landscape paintings that tend towards stylisation.

Kedrin’s works are energetically charged. They emit a pulsation embedded in the vibrating structure of surfaces with varying transparency and colourfulness of lines.

“As a teenager, during the summer months, I wandered through the forests of the Moscow region with an easel and two sandwiches in my pocket, searching for a picturesque subject. I rarely encountered people in the forests or on the roads; I only heard a tractor working in the distance or cows mooing. If I spotted a rare passer‑by on a path or a horse slowly pulling a cart towards me, I would dash into the bushes and stay there until I was alone again — so I could dream and paint undisturbed.

Distant, deserted glades and old forest paths overgrown with marsh violets; abandoned buildings and bleak dormitories suddenly revealed between tree crowns; a workers’ settlement of six red‑brick five‑storey buildings in the middle of an endless yellow field; a shed at the edge of an apple orchard, with the orchard seeming to be at the end of the world; a lonely man’s house by the river, and solitude as the best time for happiness… That’s what I loved and still love.

My abstract works are, in essence, also landscapes. Space, air, planes, hidden corners, and mysterious distances, hints and half‑hints of reality… Since in this practice I have abandoned objectivity, I now pay more attention to the surface and the formal properties of the material. This requires more intrigue in composition and, overall, a different approach to harmonising the painting.

Abstraction is a fresh experience for me, yet I have been preparing for it for two decades. The image of painting that I cultivated in figurative works — demonstrative hand‑made execution with angular awkwardness, chance elements, and a lack of virtuosity — I continue to assert in abstraction, embracing newly found possibilities and energies…”

Biography

Dmitriy Kedrin was born in Moscow in 1962. He is the grandson of the renowned poet Dmitriy Kedrin (1907–1945).

• 1979 — graduated from the Krasnopresnenskaya Children’s Art School.
• 1986 — graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute with a degree in graphic art.

He has worked in advertising, graphic design, and illustration.

Affiliations

• Member of the Painting Section of the Moscow Union of Artists (MSKh, since 1997);
• Member of the Union of Artists of Russia (TSKhR, since 2023);
• Member of the Moscow Regional Union of Artists of the Union of Artists of Russia (MOSKh SKhR, since 2024).

Exhibitions and awards

• Participant in over 90 group and solo exhibitions in Russia and abroad;
• Winner of the “Golden Brush of Russia” competition (Moscow, 1998);
• Winner of Showdown at Saatchi Online Gallery (London, 2009);
• Winner of the “Creative Environments” club competition (Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2012);
• Diploma recipient of the Moscow Union of Artists (2020);
• First‑place winner at the International Abstract Art Competition and Exhibition “World of Abstraction‑2024” (Moscow);
• Participant in Artinvestment auctions (sales in 2021, 2023, and 2024).

He lives and works in Moscow.

Exhibition details
The exhibition will run from December 3 to December 28 at Quattro space:
13 Myasnitskaya St., Building 20, Moscow.