A prominent member of the Odessa Group, Yegorov's work is well known and collected throughout the for¬mer USSR and in Europe and America. He first showed in London ten years ago at the Red Square Gallery where his work received an enthusi¬astic response.
I first heard the name Yuri Yegorov in 1978. I was a first-year graphic art student and had begun wondering who the best artist was in Odessa. To my surprise, most everyone I asked – people of different generations and aesthetic persuasions – gave the same answer, a name I did not know.
Yegorov’s creativity has an organic nature. The same way you can tell the age of a tree from its rings, periods of storm and onslaught, high and beautiful maturity left their mark on the painter’s works. Today an old master stands before us. Flowering complexity have given way to true simplicity. Yegorov’s latest canvases are simple, like the insinuating landscapes of Bugaz that have no variety of colours, but where the air, thickening over the sandbars, captures the soul and doesn’t let go.
