Mikhail Grobman, retrospective of collages at the Paris gallery Le Minotaure, reportage

[Vladimir]

Until May 22, 2010 in Paris Gallery "Minotaur» (www.galerie-leminotaure.com) to last retrospective collage Mikhail Grobman "Installation on paper. The wife of the artist, Irina Grobman (Vrubel-Golubkina), sent to ARTinvestment.ru pictures from opening day (on 1 April) and photographs of the works themselves. So meet the virtual reporting from Paris.

At the opening of the exhibition. Irina Grobman and Oscar Rabin. Photo Vlad Krasnovsky

Mikhail Grobman - renowned Israeli artist, and in the past - one of the central figures of the Moscow avant-garde 1960. He emigrated in 1971 and almost immediately took a prominent place in the Israeli cultural landscape, establishing alternative art group "Leviathan". The exhibition includes works in collage technique, which remain relevant to the artist at different periods of his creativity. Since 1960, he began to use collage prints and images of mass printing, converting popular images, taken from the artistic, political or mass-cultural context into an object of artistic manipulation. From that moment on became a collage for Grobman conceptual "graphical installation, in which every time there is a special type of artistic experiment, and where often rises to the fore work with text.

[Vladimir]

More recently, the former strategy had a new twist: the artist was ready to meet the printing image and destroy its conventional structure, vkleivaya in his own image. Sharp, provocative eye connection with the drawings of other people's material in Reproduction Technology, again raises the question of the possibility of original artistic expression. When creating your original artwork in the context of another art, Grobman seeking for the most part the comic effect, turning the artists whose works he had borrowed in his characters. The project aims to show how the situation "after the end of art" may once again find smooth artistic identity and demonstrate literary power and virtuosity, without losing the intellectual acuity and not by avoiding reflection on the very act of utterance.

Text - press release Le Minotaure Gallery