Petr Kirusha
area: Painting
Key Facts
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Latviaarea
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Rigarecommending institution
ARTMOVtime period
August 2024 - August 2024Petr Kirusha was born in 1978 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, later his parents moved back to Riga. He now lives and works in Riga, Latvia. In 2005 Petr Kirusha graduated from the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design, in 2012 he finished the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Works of Petr Kirusha can be found in the collections of Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Kaviar Factory, Shao and Munchen Yinong, Anton Kozlov etc.
During his residency at MQ, Petr Kirusha will work on a new, strongly site-specific project. He captures the local characteristics of a place or situation and adds a white rhombus as a recurring symbol. The artist also describes this shape as an inverted circle that shrinks inwards. The colour white symbolises the emptiness in the space of the painting and becomes the colour of the canvas.