Продано: Anrey Khlobystin - "CHOI"

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Andrew Khlobystin Choi, 85 x 54 cm, 1988, oil on canvas /oil

"Subject disarmed. He pod.
Armed only with a lot. "
D. Harms

Andrew Khlobystin - known St. Petersburg artist, art historian and curator born in the patriarchal family, but not of the bourgeoisie. Explain what is meant. As in all patriarchal family, his parents had many children, and as the eldest son of Andrew mostly then engaged in their education. The way of life of his parents and archaeologists were partly nomadic and very different from the painful stiffness of the patriarchal bourgeois family, which was the cause of riots in numerous art of our century. Father Andrew excavated at Vaygach, the far northern island. In this area, are still common primitive beliefs and shamanistic rituals. Shaman's staff, which was brought from the North, while Khlobystin drove from one apartment to the other as a family heirloom, perhaps, not without hope of patronage eccentric gods.

Another cultural period, Autumn entire life AH was the French Revolution. Having opened in New York on his first bank account in a short period of perestroika fashion of the late 1980's, AH used as a code either 1789, or 1793, then for a long time he could not remember what exactly (in fact authoritative romantic geniuses and artists living as Victor Hugo must have revenge for familiarity, confusing maps young minions of luck to keep them in shape).

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A first class X was a profession of an artist. The temperament of the artist AH did not keep. So, once the apartment owner unexpectedly announced that he asked to be relieved attic in which AH lived, and he made the same day, a lot of ads on renting housing. On each piece of paper, were painted figurines men in top hats, frock coats, sometimes with nets, silhouettes of elves, skinny cats and shaggy dogs. All of them are sad and abandoned sat with his back to the audience and looked at the moon. Many, of course, reminded symbolic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, but potential landlords, unfortunately, did not see even the "Bremen Town Musicians". Beginning of the 1980s, to which the episode from the life of the Academy of Arts, was a period of stagnation in public institutions, which provided young people unlimited leisure and freedom of romantic fantasies. Then AH wrote his first literary work - an unfinished novel "Aktsepitalius" imitation baroque novels. In addition, he devoted much time to the study of art history, his second profession. Academic art history (the study of works of historical styles or copyright style) never fond of Arts. The student's work, he devoted an outstanding artistic natures (Picasso, Boilly) or periods of historical madness, when the creative energy comes out of it aside for public places such as museums and workshops, and makes its vehicles chiefs and commoners, materialized in every detail of the history and life of the grandiose to the smallest (again, the French Revolution or the absurdity of life in the Soviet 1930s). A major scientific discovery of the Arts was the restoration of the details known sayings VI Lenin about art ("of all the arts for us cinema is the most important"). But X is not too lazy to check out this quote in the collected works, and found that in fact it should be: "of all the arts for us, except for the circus, the most important is the movie", which has greatly changed the understanding of the cultural policy of the Soviet Union.

At that time - in the mid-1980s - in Russia began liberal reforms have shifted the boundaries of social groups and habitats. AH joined the society "New Artists" that promoted creative principle "everythingness" (art made of all, on everything and everywhere), invented in the early centuries Ilya Zdaneviches and Mikhail Larionov, avant-garde and amateur ideologues of primitive art. Around 1993 AH combined all their vital interests and inclinations in the total project, called "artistic will." The project began the release of the magazine dedicated to microbiology. The atmosphere of this edition best conveys the Russian term "fermentation of minds" (foreign-speaking reader should say that perhaps the "social" fermentation, and fermentation of brewer's yeast, and from here comes the verb "to wander", for example, on the streets). In the project "artistic will" take part in the next of kin of the artist and the audience. For example, at the "Microbiology" in the studio at the Academy of Arts as an artifact demonstrated outstanding stage of moldy bread, which ACh all recommended as a product of his senior wife Alla Mitrofanova known in wider circles as a media critic, but most importantly - how people never surrendered life . On the representation of other parts of the project - "Preservation" - Gallery 21 on small folding stools, covered with sheets of "XB" were arranged bottles of beer, vodka and opened can of sprats, and the audience quickly engulfed this part of the exhibition. Western audiences are more accustomed to eating and in need of spiritual nourishment, AH built the confessional, showers and provided a typewriter in case you have found a willing confession in print.

Arts Artistic practice involves numerous crossings, and even in St. Petersburg, he is not sitting at home, but constantly runs between Foundry and Nevsky Prospect. In the area of ​​these streets passersby often notice a man on a bicycle unique design: yellow basket fastened back from the supermarket, where the baby is sitting, and the front sits at the helm of another baby. So traveling renowned artist and curator, fumbling for yourself and bring all the most expensive, as turtles your armor, like a hedgehog - food reserves as characters Arcimboldo - its fantastic decoration.

The authority of the Academy of Arts is growing, and he recently received an invitation to shape his social status of the artist-teacher of life officially, and came to the teaching of the theory of contemporary art in a St. Petersburg Institute. "Well, - he said, - and there will be students? Send to now I will start asking them for alms. Let them try their hand at business."
(Ekaterina Andreeva)