Exhibition "Magic of Dutch realism"

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Non-existence to the touch

In the Pushkin Museum of Fine as part of the Year of Russia - Holland , the exhibition " Magic of Dutch realism " : the Dutch company ING has demonstrated its corporate art collection of the XX century and its corporate flavor to boot. Anna tells Kommersant - TOLSTOVA .


View incoming immediately abuts the " Girl in a Renaissance costume " Karel Villinka , the only artist who has the honor to include not only a collection of ING, but in the long history of the art of XX century. Rubens girl in heavy brocade dress with a toy sheep on a leash , shown against the background of the regular park that stretches to patinirovskoy run right up to the horizon, it seems the heroine of a nightmare. Whether ice electric light , both from " Melancholia " by Lars von Trier , gives such an effect , whether triggered contrast between the child and not far from innocent face model and the idyllic setting in the spirit of the old masters to which the person is inserted , as in the picture - hornblende from the provincial shop . "Girl " was written in 1945 - during the occupation Karel Villink , a gift that has been recognized brand Aryan artist , refused to sell his paintings to the Germans and made ​​a living portraits. However, this painting , with all its custom-made character is seen thinking of Old Europe , who died and who now have to settle the tribes young, unknown . The rest of the artists featured in the exhibition is far less known, and as if it wants to enter into a dispute with Villinkom , showing him his obsessive realism that the values ​​of the old world have a right to life. But this collection ING does not look a manifestation of conservatism.

The term " magic realism " , veiled in the exhibition title , was coined by the German art historian and critic Franz Rauh in 1925 for Artists " New Objectivity " , but quickly moved into the area of literature and almost lost a clear sense of the visual arts . What we see in the exhibition is a wide range of " isms ." From the hyper-realism - as in " Box " Frans Clement , of which fall out and look to building tools , to the banal academic - as in still life productions of Peter and Bernard Sebensa Ferkayka . Here and fans of Andrew Wyeth like Johan Abelinga with "House ," which could well be the "House of Christina ." And conceptualist 's like 7 thousand portraits of Philip Ackerman , a student of the great John Dibbetsa . And fans of post-modern games like Barend Blankerta , quoting the old Italians mixed with Georges Seurat . And that is the " New Objectivity " , which can be attributed to peer Karel Villinka - Wim Schumacher silver- portraits and landscapes , and Dick Ket with still life collage that return the cubist world of objects illyuzionisticheskie credibility . However , Dick Ket , in the " Still-Life Day of St. Nicholas" encrypts its name because of got on a festive table puppets on zapadnofrizskom called " ket " , plays surrealist game. As Karel Villink , Northern Mannerism close to Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí , and Cartesianism - to René Magritte .
The notorious realism , uniting all artists collection ING, the easiest way to call kitsch. Kitsch is a light hand with Clement Greenberg is no longer perceived as a harmless manifestation of bourgeois taste - in imagining political kitsch , with populist and conservative . Probably patriotic program at ING collection is: because realism is considered a great achievement Dutch Golden Age. By the golden age of many of the artists here are appealing , and " Still Life with Fruit in a Landscape " brilliant stylist Raoul Hinkesa want to fix a date by writing " 1635 " instead of "1935 ." But do not say that the motives that prompted collect this corporate collection , exhausted by a desire to support the National Art brand. The exhibition takes only three rooms , and pictures unpretentious distributed by him in accordance with the principle of genres : portrait, landscape, still life. However, with all the photographic realism of the work the difference between the genres do not feel : made ​​primarily in the deaf silver- gray tones , illuminated mainly flat matte light, different unnatural clarity of lines, all of them at first call to mind the typical Dutch landscape , and then begin to seem a still life . Virtuoso and unemotional cast of reality from which life went . Not in a holistic way the real world , but the character set -indices , referring back to the real world as a crime scene , like a crack in the bow and the other arm of the " chair " Barend Blankerta . What part has been described unfashionable now a poet Joseph Brodsky 's poem , inspired by the paintings of Charles Villinka : " This is what is called " skill " : /ability to not be afraid of the procedure /Non-existence - as a form of his /Absences forgave him from life ."
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