Tabenkin

[Konstantin]

in the MMSI Ilya Tabenkin on Tverskaya Boulevard

MMSI, January 24 - February 23, 2014
Moscow, Tverskaya Boulevard, 9

Moscow Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with the Gallery "Vellum" presents the first solo exhibition in Moscow Ilya Tabenkin timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the artist. The exhibition presents more than 100 works, including how to make him famous abstract still lifes years 1970-80 and earlier figurative paintings and objects made ​​of papier- mache. подробнее

Managed to get to the opening of the exhibition , and in a nutshell - watch carefully .

[Vladimir]

What we see today can be called the second wave of interest in creativity semidesyatnik Tabenkin Ilya ( 1914-1988 ) . Previous wave was in 2005-2006 , also after the exhibitions "Vellum" . Actually , it is appropriate to remember and repeat what we wrote about back in Tabenkin 2006 :

At eighteen, a young student of the Moscow Art School in memory of 1905 Ilya Tabenkin sent arrested another paint. Act cost him his detention in Butyrka , three years of hard labor camps in the Kazakh and subsequent links . Back to the profession came about by accident : chaos of World War II allowed to hide a criminal record and enter the current Surikov Art Institute, in those years, was evacuated to Samarkand. Then decades of official work : combines social realism nomenclature portraits, landscapes commonplace ...

It ended abruptly as it happens for inspiration . In 1970 Tabenkin invented his still life, his technique , his light , which hid his metaphysics and his philosophy . In the figures, cobbled together from gypsum , clay and papier - mache art today see the Old Testament idea of ​​the creation of the world , the search for harmony , the search for God , metaphysical speculations , are even accidental resemblance to the works on the perception of Weisberg and Kras . The artist himself , according to the memoirs , valued primarily riddle - what turns creativity into art. Since the early seventies until his death, a small hunched man ( since childhood he was injured spine) has worked hard over the riddles that require concentration hermit .

Tabenkin managed to catch the first rays of public recognition , which appeared after the famous " Russian Sotheby's " in 1988 , a few months before his death . In 2005, medium-sized paintings sold for about 3.5 thousand dollars, then they become quite quickly add in the price . In 2006 they almost doubled . By 2008, the ninth year they reached a local peak : 10-12 thousand U.S. dollars are no longer a rarity, and record on Sovkome in 2008 amounted to about $ 25 000 But this , of course, were isolated cases . Then , in a crisis, as in all , there was a downward correction . What will happen now - we'll see . But in the investment plan well what material is available on many things and is very worthy . Have the opportunity to choose the best , and that is important .

The first three photos - of the 1970s

[Konstantin]

And if not in a nutshell, with the details , then start from the hanger ...
In the doorway faced with well-known journalist who went out for some fresh air and my reply , Well it so quickly , suddenly said : - I'm on such nonsense (actually a stronger word) I can not look long .
Soooo I thought, and went to look at myself ...

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At the exhibition visited three thoughts :
1. What a great show, a lot of pictures and it's good
2 . Followed without a pause , but they are all the same and that's bad
3 . The third thought comes in three minutes after the start of the inspection - Shoot yeah there are several masterpieces , oh yeah not a few , but many.

Yes, exactly the exhibition provides a clear understanding of " what is what " and if gather to buy , already knowing exactly what. Basically this picture mid-80s . All very energetically charged , amazing combination of colors pleasing to the eye , though often say at once - and what color it is difficult. Yes the house to cover up one Tabenkin - strange, but have two or three strong collection of work is necessary.