Apartment Exhibition Cook (Nicholas Manuilov)

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Manuilova artist Nicholas , who calls himself - Cook, known to few - but in vain !

It belongs to the earliest detachment of Moscow artists of the sixties .. His varied work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and ... even the whole house ! In those days , when everything was " deficient " ( Bolshevik skillfully brought the country to handle !) , He built (or rebuilt ) a small house , dacha in a fairy-tale tower . Everything was covered with wonderful sculptures, painted a very vivid . Called the " Cat House" !

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As one art critic, "Cook's work - a complex associative way from their meaningful forms of plants, insects, and ideas to a thin and often underdeveloped analogy."

- Nicholas, as I understand it, the fascination with epic has brought you far enough - you have almost worship the gods of the Elder Edda ...

- Why is "slightly"? I really adore them since 1962. Then I painfully searching for spiritual support, delved into gospel, Buddhism, Blavatsky. And in the Elder Edda saw the axis around which zaverchena world civilization. Nine Worlds Elder Eda, nine circles of Dante ...

I have long wandered the hell was going to die, I had consumption, but gave Edda and miraculously recovered ... Until then, I did one painting a week, and then began to do a thing for five to seven years. Ed has saved me from death, "connected" to the cosmos, to the ideas that I call, according to the Edda, Jotun, I will implement them in the work, applying layer after layer, and investing in each particular emotion.
is the so-called sensory (sensual), artists, stimulating a drug, alcohol, various biostimulants, and there are imaginative, relying on pure imagination. I highly imaginative, I was very close in spirit to Filonov, we had one customer makes to the art - "maximum restraint analysis."

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And some, for clarity, imaginative examples do you have?

- Icons imaginative and Perm wooden sculpture ... Those who are slowly and carefully performed, eventually becoming imaginative artists.

- And how can we accurately determine this or that artist on this principle?

- Yes, it's written on my forehead! Wants to see. The Impressionists only touch, but Cezanne imazhinativen father, he worked for a long time. And all those who resort to sublimation, not sleeping, you know, at night - touch. Van Gogh - a good example of a known drunkard. A slander on the Modigliani built - he is our, imaginative.

- I know that the picture of the "Wasp," you wrote seven years, it is unique on the ground marked 18 (!) Layers made in different techniques of painting. Where the "Wasps" now?

- They bought Basmadzhan for his gallery.

Basmadzhan, as we know, is dead, killed him, and around his Paris gallery walk dark rumors ...

- I specifically went to Paris to find out the fate of paintings, but the gallery is now run by his sister Basmadzhana, I was not even allowed to go into the basement to look at the pictures, they are stored in the basement. There's some criminal situation, familiar to the French say, you even do not go there, not to make trouble.

There is, in my opinion, the Armenian mafia imposed on all hand. Meanwhile, according to the contract, could Basmadzhan "Hos" just stand, they did not belong to him, I was going to send them a gift to the Tretyakov Gallery. But Basmadzhana killed just down the road with me, he wanted to buy another large batch of papers.

- History of sad, but our time is quite typical. In addition, we must admit that the picture is now at least buy. And for a decent price. And how do you in the past to earn their daily bread?

- It depends. Restored stove at the Novodevichy Convent. The editors of technical journals threw decoration work, came across to me in life thanked the Russian people, but for some reason they were all Jews.

- And where a pseudonym - Cook?

- Cook - is the cry of the cuckoo, which fascinated me as a child. I heard it when I was four years old, and I realized that I - Cook. And since people began to call me Cook. But in fact my name Manuilov, my grandfather was the manager of the Sormovo plant.

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On the other line, I nobleman, my ancestor was baptized Murza Ivan the Terrible, after the capture of Kazan, then this kind can be traced by Peter among the victims of the old faith. The poet Pushkin's time, too, Kamenev, a relative of mine. A relative of mine was a famous collector of St.-Petersburg, in his saloon there were composers Tchaikovsky and Cui. So it has been collecting in our family, we have already passed. I do not collect, I myself am the subject of collecting.

Artist Nicholas Manuilov (Cook) - Where learned to painting?

- I took private lessons with an old school artist Auzberga Munich, he, poor thing, it suffered in Russia. These lessons to me was enough. He taught me the main thing - a sensitive approach to the subject of the drawing. Then there were the years of military service ...

- What years?

- Military service. Service in the army. Since then, by the way, be sure to write it, since 1965 I do not read newspapers. I do not apolitical, I vneistorichen entirely removed from time.

- Yes, your sculpture, your gods Elder Edda - eloquent proof of that. And whether the audience to evaluate their "profane," unfamiliar with the ancient Norse religion?

- No need to exaggerate the audience acquainted with the Christian religion, but it did not prevent him from enjoying Raphael or Botticelli.

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Among the guests were, Michael Cook Alshibaya, Vitaly Patsukov, Leonid Bazhanov, Alexei Kiselev, Peter Voice, Yuri Gurov, Alexander Mironov, Kate Dudinskaya, Ira Naryshkin-founder and chief cheerleader, Igor Dudinskiy.

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How to Cook explained to me is a portrait of Putin.

Generally, this exhibition Kvartin itself is unique, because, as Cook told - I your work is no longer selling or exhibiting .. all went to the U.S. .. so it remains to be seen what will I get scolded for this photo essay ..
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Lucy, and from what made this chess set?

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Сообщение от Lucy

came across to me in life thanked the Russian people, but for some reason they were all Jews.

He laughed.
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Сообщение от Kirill Syzran ; 1967481"

Lucy, but from what made ​​this chess ?

I could be wrong , like Cook, has said that all the figures made ​​of papier -mache.
It is a pity that so that he does not want to exhibit , sell .. sorry because Cook is an important part of the history of our movement nonkonformistka .. Like today said Igor I. Dudinskiy Misha Alshibaya , Cook has appeared earlier than many of our current star nonconformists . Here it is the origin .. he was one of the first ..
in the photo there is a work - 60s .

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Suppose that there is little in the work of Cook seemed close, but Kompashki otmennoy.Bezuslovno he was part of a bygone era of the sixties - not all of them uniquely powerful in the works, but his work did enthusiastically.

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from the album Igor Dudinsky with FB At great cook. On Malaya Gruzinskaya, 28."