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Today is the birthday of Oleg Tselkov and Rembrandt van Rijn
July 15, 2009 painter Oleg Tselkov 75 years old, health and long summer!
Day of culture (in "Episode") was a very good film about the hero of the day of his current life, which showed his house, shop ( «Mandatory for my condition - canvas is in the studio and a half years, it happens - up to 3 years. It's unhurried process. May be spoiled, spoiled and very difficult to correct»),
and, of course, his memories and reflections on his work ( «I do not belong to any school to any particular direction, and moreover I did not see for themselves the explicit models to say that the pencil has taught me Repin, and paint in oils - Surikov. There is no! Neither color nor in the composition, and most importantly, in the character, I sincerely feel, first, self-taught, and second, ignorant in the art of man ».)
how one day found his "character" and immediately realized that it was "his piece, from which you can" pinch off "all life" ( «In the 60-ies, I found something with which you can continue to live. I've created something of their own. A person with a narrow forehead and a massive chin. All the years I worked only with him »)
and life in general
(in particular, vegetable soup recipe, which he prepares every day, from the familiar French chef, and the subtle observation that the vegetables should cook 9 minutes: 8 - still low, and 10 - already many)),
the creation of his "Self-Portrait with Rembrandt":
"I'm at home hanging on the wall, tear-off calendar. And one day, waking up after yesterday, which was then one day, I pulled from the calendar page and read:" so many years since the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn. "And then drew attention to the date - July 15 - and slapped on his forehead: and even today after so many years birthday of Oleg Tsalkova! How interesting, I thought, Rembrandt died many years ago, but I like it native. And we are doing one thing. Why should we not celebrate with him the general's birthday? "Here we are here with him, and clink glasses".
Oleg Tselkov: "I accidentally tore the mask from mankind"
(interview, 2004. during his visit to Moscow)
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The main cultural event of recent days, many gallery owners called the trip from Paris to Moscow artist Oleg Tsalkova opening of its exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery. The nature of the western celebrities, who left Russia 27 years ago, under a painting: a powerful, magnetic, explosive. Museum staff did not complain of newsmen otshivaet. Yet the browser "Novye Izvestia" managed to talk with him. In the literal sense of the word on the run: moving from one hall to the Tretyakov Gallery. - Oleg, something similar to what is happening today at the opening day - the crowd, shouting, hugging - you happened over the years spent in the West?
- When the exhibition opened in Paris or New York, where many of our - of course, just like here, people rushed to hug me. Although most willing to embrace me, as well as here, did not recognize. Well, of course: for 27 years I was in Moscow for the third time. There was a small exhibition ten years ago, then came to bury his mother. And few who saw. Today, many people came, by whom, and 27, and 37 years have not seen. Necking is a pleasant thing, but the art has nothing to do. I'll tell you another. The real experts they perceive my paintings are exactly the same as the real connoisseurs here.
Thinly organized people in the West, everybody can see and understand in my work, as well as the audience in Russia. And people usually leave in bewilderment. Like us.
- Your retrospective as it completes a retrospective of the leaders of Nonconformist Art. He opened the series of "second coming" in the late 80's Tourism. And for 15 years, there seemed to all and sundry. You were in the queue extreme. Is the result of sluggishness museum staff or your artistic strategy?
- Strategies were folk artists like the USSR Korzheva - a good painter, but also good knowing that some of his "raise the banner of" commissioned for the next jubilee exhibition, smoothly moved to the Tretyakov Gallery. For me it was always an important one: painting. What will happen to them - no matter even if the burn. Burned and not so ...
Now about the exhibition. Half of the works - with a 60-year on 77 th, when I emigrated. These works from Moscow private collections. The other half - that is written in the 90's and kept by me, or was bought by the founder of the New York Russian World Gallery Felix Komarov. In "retrospect", as you see a tremendous gaping hole. The best of the paintings sold in the West have changed over the years by several owners, and I can tell you to call only the first buyer, and where the picture now - I have no idea.
- But can you say when and under what circumstances to understand that for you the main thing - to paint?
- This thought came to me in strange circumstances in 15 years. I was in camp, and I was there somehow was not very comfortable. Instead of communicating with the other children sat and sketched. And suddenly clearly understand why I feel so lonely. Because I'm an artist. And artists - other people. As we say that there is life in the world and life in the monastery. Back in Moscow, I told the parents about their desire to "leave the world" - to go to art school. I told her about a man named Teddy Arkhipov. I asked Misha, you need to at this wonderful school to do, and Teddy explained that only need to write one picture in oil. I had no idea either about the canvas, or about oil paints, but for the sake of this case broke out a few rods from the courtyard fence and cut a large piece of burlap lining their own sofa. Parents have long known that for the sake of art I have sacrificed family furniture ...
One of my exhibition lasted for two days, the other - 15 minutes
I did in art school without any preparation. Not in a circle until it did not go, nor in the House of Pioneers. And the selection committee, reviewing the submitted my work for the competition, I, of course, exams are not allowed. And here I must recall with gratitude the father, Nikolai Ivanovich. He came home at lunchtime, he sees - I was crying. "What's the matter?" I say: "begins the exam, and I'm sitting at home." His father, a wonderful man, said: "Lord, Come take my work and went to school. I'll call the factory, saying that ill." During the 15 minutes before the first exam, we rushed up to his father in Lavroushinsky lane, he found the director, went with him into his office and told me that himself in his childhood dream of being an artist, that he did not have to be an artist, but he wants his son to become. .. And the director, realizing that it's easier to get rid of this, generally speaking, the fool from the street, said: "Let him go and deliver." And I passed.
- Courage helped?
- By some intuition, all done. By the principle of "hay-straw". They put a shadow pencil, eraser to erase here. The commission must have decided: come nugget. I accepted. My total ignorance allowed me to make the first steps are simple, but a definitive conclusion. For example, if I draw from nature cucumber - who dares to say that I do not like cucumber? No one knows what tomorrow will bring a cucumber! And in a hundred years? Very serious questions, right? I did not hesitate to pronounce them aloud ...
- and suffered for it.
- I have received for all merit. I was always violate public order. After the first course of the Minsk Institute, where I did, graduated with honors from the school, we were taken to the sketches. In the village Kissels. An old folk artist BSSR taught us to "realistically transmit natural environment." I chose a place, put the easel and began to sketch the cabin, a mill, willows. Particular attention is paid our master pebbles in the foreground. After the first day of the old pegs designated place where he stood on canvas, looked at last on a stone and left. I took it and threw a pebble in the stream. Morning folk artist was upset by the disappearance of stones, sighed and began to painstakingly paint the place in the painting, which was painted stone, withered grass. On the third day I let himself go - tossed on the grass a dozen new stones. The master was furious: "What is it going?" - "Nothing can be done, - I answered - must realistically pass the natural environment." He said nothing. But then I remembered these pebbles in dismissal from the Institute ...
- How do you come to fame? It's clear that not just "suddenly", as you did in art school and have been excluded from the institute in Minsk.
- All "suddenly" in my life been preparing for years. First of Fame, which caused my departure from the country, came to fashion. It played a great role Yevtushenko, who helped me a lot since the beginning of our acquaintance in the mid-50's. He helped me, in particular, material for which I otdarival his paintings. Eugene led to my customers, they brought in Tushino, where I lived, my friends. My first exhibition was held at the Kurchatov Institute. Me with someone's filing came young physicists, and they, in virtue of the fact that they are, quite simply, forged nuclear shield powers, gave great relief. They could not speak in the sense that you can read Tolstoy, and, say, Platonov prohibited. And these guys told me: "We will show your paintings in his institute." The exhibition was opened, and two days later closed. The funny thing is that covered her long-time friend of my parents, who represented the Kurchatov Institute of the KGB. But set it up as if closed my exhibition themselves perturbed physics.
My second solo exhibition was in five years. Again, the "white bone", the architects, said: "The Director is on vacation, do a show on one day, for his. But "their" was half of Moscow, and when I arrived at the opening, the exhibition has closed, because I was late for 15 minutes. Lead me sadly said: "Come now, a man came up with the little red book and said that if I did not put out the light in the hall, tomorrow can not come to work." To which I replied to him: "extinguish the light, why do you lose a job ..."
And when we started fronderskie various exhibitions, such as "the bulldozer", I did not participate. I was, as already said, the perpetrator, but because the law was wrong from the standpoint of me and not someone else. And I'm going to continue to violate it. But not with a poster in his hand, and the fact that I have.
Life in Russia, I ate a spoonful
- Why still left? Again a sudden?
- No, it just was not suddenly, but keenly aware. I said to myself: "I am 43 years old, my life here I can be considered finished. I'm dead." This life I ate a spoonful, nahavalsya it above the throat. And do not sbleval. Sbleval not ... And now I'll go and see how people live in another world and see how other artists write, in general, feel himself a simple man, not a little old man Pimen Pushkin, who sits on the king and wrote a denunciation in the future. "
- And you leave the country as the victor?
- What is there ... In Sheremetyevo tossed among the mourners with a huge red string bag, which were crammed some are not packed in suitcases things, wiping his tears no less impressive size handkerchief. Leaving the landing, threw the handkerchief in the ballot box and told friends in the end: "A snot, shall remain in Russia !"...
All 27 years of living in France, no major problems I had encountered. Lot of work, tasty eating, sleeping. Drink not quit, but now I do it more for inspiration, sustaining tone. One came for a visit to the doctor. "Often drink?" - Asks. "Every day". - "How much?" Well, I gave him the approximate number of milliliters. The doctor was shocked by my youthful view of the liver ...
Before departure, I had little interest in the history of painting, I was only interested in myself. Arrived - and rushed to see museums, exhibitions, books. In all penetrated and seen: it is not my measure. What helped me finally believe in the light of my stars. And pretty soon came to success. Other than in Russia, without any admixture of scandal. There were buyers, its audience ...
- Oleg, play in the artist and the audience? That's "Self-Portrait" in 1969, near which we stand - so much has been written about him, and themselves-something that you think of him?
- Here is shown my character, enclosed in a museum frame. It seems to be a portrait, and yet not a portrait. Because the character and a beautiful frame with a dangling before his eyes a string exist separately. That is not mine, but his self-portrait. Do you understand?
- In general. And that means a rope?
- Well, that means ... How else will frame hanging on the wall? He stuck his nose into the frame, the rope hooked nose, and she dangles.
- I mean, it does not hint at stifling the creative freedom?
- No hints! Nowhere I do not have any hints! No fist in your pocket!
- Whence, then, the myth that Tselkov with stunning grotesque reflected Soviet reality?
- And emerged from Gogol: "In the mirror Netchai blame, if you mug curve. That's all. Gogol is not going with a sort of grotesque, there is something to reflect - he wrote, as he put God in the soul. And there were read to him the audience - her problem. Those who think that person is a sinister or grotesque, has the right to do. Especially if you buy me a picture and hang at home, here on the same rope.
- I know you tired of the question of how arose 44 years ago your character - the mask, face, muzzle, mug, as you call it. But want to know: for all that time, as he wielded with your help of sharp objects that you have about us because he understood?
- Have you read "Lolita" by Nabokov? What story there? The fact that a mature guy affair with his 12-year-old stepdaughter? But damn! This is a novel about the strangeness of love. And the eternal rightness of love, whatever is said about it by outsiders. Love always violate some established order, yes? Hence, it is in some sense a crime? And why it violates the order? This is not a legal issue. Legal matters of interest only to lawyers, and it affects us all ...
I'm in some sort of interview said that, when I suddenly appeared this mug, I realized: this person is not a specific person, but mankind in general, as a whole. So I, without knowing it myself, accidentally pulled the mask from all individuals at once. I did not set goals "unmask", and I saw no "bad" or "good", but something more genuine, subcutaneous. And the fact that each of us under the skin, brings us all. I can not have specific claims to any person, but I have more than a specific claim to the mass of people who each other humiliated, tortured, sent to the other world. These claims I may have to the past and the present, and future ... That's about a response.
Mother-in-law was ready to stand in Paris with an outstretched hand
- his career of a famous artist you are obliged to a greater extent, Russia or France?
- I have not made a career whatsoever. My career is zero.
- This is not pride in you said?
- No, it's not arrogance. This shows the difference between what I saw in Russia, and those who I really am. If in Russia have seen really famous Western artists, would realize that Tselkov - zero to three outs. That's all. Without any arrogance. Career did Kabakov. He is considered a superstar in the West. I say with good reason and without, so to speak, self-pity. Since I am on it was simply not capable. And I'll tell you why. Today's art develops streaming bandwagon. If you missed the fashion stream, you have virtually no chance of getting into the clip. And if you missed the clip - do not make a career of the star. Today, the people somehow do not think that these clips then a hundred times review. Time in which I lived, was, by and large, the time of the dispute pop art and conceptualism. But I'm not in one of these currents did not join any side. And when the end of his life thinking about why it happened, I realized that I was simply a man, unable to make a career. Make a career for me - so let me work.
- And with decent earning. Say that still true and what is fiction in the story of Sergei Dovlatov about how you were traded, selling the picture, Henry Miller, and that you are selling paintings on square centimeters?
- When my mother-in-law came running after me and my wife in Vienna, along with it came there and Sergei Dovlatov. I must say that my mother-in-law a war hero, his chest with medals, the Soviet people well, and in Vienna was, as they say, not sewn mare's tail. But it is us with my wife, her daughter, Tonya, said: "You do not know how to stand with outstretched hand. And I was a child. And if there is anything you do not win, I will nourish: I will, if anything, to stand with outstretched hand ... " So, she came to Vienna, we met her, and at the same time it showed up there Dovlatov. Once we quickly agreed with him that it is no wonder in such a situation, and I told him a colorful story about Henry Miller, who was brought in Tushino for buying my paintings Yevtushenko. He told me absolutely not suggesting that he is a writer. He told me just companion, laughing, over a bottle of vodka, and then there was a lot of vodka, and inexpensive. When he published this story, I was struck not the fact of publication, and that he remembered many details that I myself had forgotten. For example, as I said to Miller: "When you sew a pants, then pay twenty rubles per meter of gabardine, which, incidentally, not gabardine." And Miller politely replied: "I am conscious of this full report. Zhenya, standing behind Miller, hisses me: "You idiot, you idiot ..." These parts I through Dovlatova ... like perevspomnil. And agreed that all was well. He outlined the history of my compact, beautifully and literature, so it's all true.
And as for the sale to Miller and many more pictures and then three rubles per square centimeter ... The truth is that when I first sold his paintings, I do not know how to evaluate them. First figured as I can in the year to write them. Then he realized that not all the paintings, by virtue of their size, can sell. Even then I prefer big sizes. Then I figured, how much should I sell square meters, in order not to starve, to be paid cleaners. Not higher. I calculated that a square centimeter of my pictures should not cost so much. But not in dollars, as written Dovlatov, as in rubles. I'm not a fool he was also a currency to contact ...
- Another myth about you - as if living in Tushino in very cramped conditions, you will enjoy, drawing big pictures, inverted binoculars - it was so close.
- And this is not a myth, so it was. For example, my "Last Supper", in general, a small painting, feet tall and seventy-two, she was doing in a room the size of three to four, and ceilings there were two and a half. The picture was on a diagonal, allowing its creator to go to the toilet. And from time to time to all of her review, I used his father's glasses, a rotated reverse. This I say with pride, because very often then heard the lamentations: "Artists' Union does not give the studio, I have nowhere to work." I then replied and now I want to say: "Everywhere and anything can be done, if you like.
- We are just servants of the museum chased from the picture, to which we have come too dangerous distance. Look, Oleg, what picture she defended from the encroachments of the author!
- Well, yes, "Self-Portrait with Rembrandt. Indeed, one of my most famous paintings, it is in all albums. But what we have leant against her, I think that happened by accident.
- But what happened that you have written it?
- Yes, too casually. At home I was hanging on the wall, tear-off calendar. And one day, waking up after yesterday, which was then one day, I pulled from the calendar page and read: "so many years since the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn." And then drew attention to the date - July 15 - and slapped his forehead: and even today after so many years birthday Oleg Tselkov! How interesting, I thought, Rembrandt died many years ago, but for me it as a mother. And we are doing one thing. Why should we not celebrate with a common birthday? Here we are here with him, and clink glasses.
- What drink do not remember?
- Yes, probably, that the store was. Any port cheap ... As with Akhmatova. When she brought me the picture to watch, I treated her port. She appreciated. "Good, - said - wine ...
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Oleg virgin was born in 1934 in Moscow. Since 1949, he studied at the Moscow Art School, which successfully ended in 1953. After exclusion from the Minsk Institute of Theatrical Arts (1954) and the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. IJ Russia Repin Academy of Fine Arts (1955) became a student at the Leningrad Theatrical Institute, where he studied under NP Akimov. In 1958, he received a diploma of the artist-technologist scenes, however, returned to Moscow, did not work in the theater, and took up painting entirely. In the 60's was perhaps the most fashionable and-selling artist. Work Tsalkova been exhibited at the official announcements in the USSR, but often exhibited abroad, being illegally transported across the border by foreign buyers and acquaintances immigrants. In 1977 Tselkov himself and his wife left the country and settled in Paris. In 1984 he bought an old farmhouse in the province of Champagne, which spends most of his time.
29/10/2004
Michael Pozdnyaev
Novye Izvestiya
Incidentally, in an interview, he answers a question about certain references in the story of Sergei Dovlatov about how he sold the painting per square centimeter
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- Another myth about you - as if living in Tushino in very cramped conditions, you will enjoy, drawing big pictures, inverted binoculars - it was so crowded.
- And this is not a myth, so it was. For example, my "Last Supper", in general, a small painting, feet tall and seventy-two, she was doing in a room the size of three to four, and ceilings there were two and a half. The picture was on a diagonal, allowing its creator to go to the toilet. And from time to time to all of her review, I used his father's glasses, a rotated reverse. This I say with pride, because very often then heard the lamentations: "Artists' Union does not give the studio, I have nowhere to work." I then replied and now I want to say: "Everywhere and anything can be done, if you like.
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"Last Supper" - in the house in a central position, it believes its important work,
said about her: a museum offered money for it, good, but, let's say, as it should be, the sergeant, as I was then - a packet of tobacco (general, for example, has already been laid "Kazbek"), and I asked three packs of "Kazbek", so she stayed with me, what am pleased. "
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Glasha, I in no way detract from the artistic merits of Oleg Tselkov, but will agree with me, sounds like something not very title of this chapter!
Could put the name of a humble artist Rembrandt in the first and second methods O. Tsalkova.
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One could put the name of a humble artist Rembrandt in the first and second methods O. Tsalkova.
uriart, you noticed smiley in the title of the theme?
Actually, the post was made on the hero of the day rubles.
On the second 'newborn' only reference in connection with the history of the creation of "Self-Portrait with Rembrandt" (see text).
Even add a little: Tsalkova somehow wondered who the great born on this day, find someone else .. the date of death, and suddenly - "more than a humble painter Rembrandt was born on the same day! .. He was so pleased with this and felt great you are an artist or a zero (to myself), you're all the same - the artist, still all standing in a row NEC ... ..... Well, in general, was born portrait
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15.07.2009, 17:20
Today is the birthday of Oleg Tselkov and Rembrandt van Rijn
Fragment with inverted binoculars
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