ARTIST MICHAEL HOHLACHEV
SURREALISM AND ABSURDITY
Works Cheval represent a cocktail of surrealism and absurdity, which draws the viewer into an exciting game, where no logic, there is only unreal reality. And inviting the public into your game, Michael truly glad when it understands and accepts.
the biggest impact considers himself a painter, had two great surrealist of the last century @- Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. However, himself Michael Cheval does not relate to this style. According to his definition, he is @- absurdist, and his theatre of the absurd @- is inverted reality, reverse logic side that doesn"t come from dreams and the depths of the subconscious. This is a masterful imagination of the artist, who declares that "...абсурд – not that other, as the logic of the heart, closely intertwined with the unconscious world of imagination and illusions. And the absurdism @- this is an attempt to understand our life as it is. And useful, from time to time, to turn everything on голову."
Through the subjects of his creations, the wizard conducts a silent dialogue with the audience, casting them in shock, then euphoria, and then catches up with depression or invigorates. And everybody who once saw the work of Michael Cheval, will remain humbled by amazing fantasy artist, as well as intoxicated by a picturesque cocktail of absurdity and Surah.
Michael Cheval, like lifts the veil of his inner world, reaches out to the audience and introduces it in a remarkably enigmatic, mysterious and incomprehensible theatre of the absurd, where scenes from the fantastic performances, full of secrets, mysteries and intrigues. Actors hiding their faces behind masks, or under an impenetrable expression on their faces, expertly play their roles. And the viewer is sometimes difficult to understand what is really going on in this unpredictable theatre. However, because of the clues that the artist leaves in the form of small parts, the viewer, step by step comprehends the secrets and unravelling mysteries, hidden in his paintings.
Each painting is a map of the journey in the illusion, is a colorful spectacle, where closely intertwined reality and fiction, fragments of dreams, and transcendent dreams. All works are living their own lives: they seem to come alive mysteriously and conquered lead the viewer into a world of illusions, in the innermost corners of the soul of the master himself.
a Little about the artist
Michael hohlachev (Michael Cheval) (1966) hails from a small town Kotelnikovo in the South of Russia. The boy grew up in a creative family. His father was Michael hohlachev, artist-самоучка and grandfather @- Yuri Lipov, a professional artist and sculptor. And, as often happens in such families, creativity boy has developed very quickly, it is already three years drew a complex composition as to your age.
14-летним a teenager with his family Michael moved to Germany, where the art museums and ancient castles, narrow streets and wonderful landscapes have conquered the heart of young talents and forever defined his tastes. Living abroad, Michael was interested in history and literature, composed music and poetry, organized his musical rock-н-ролльную group.
it was there that he first saw the book with reproductions of paintings by Salvador Dali and truly marvel "Кто-то think the same as I... Actually, I didn"t choose surrealism for his work consciously —, it was a state of mind from the детства".
However, the twists of fate again brought Khokhlacheva in the Soviet Union. 20-летним boys Michael was in Turkmenistan, where the formation of the future artist. After graduating from the Ashgabat school of fine arts, he began working as an independent professional artist. Eastern philosophy is largely shaped and made adjustments to the style novice master and helped to choose a direction. He created the stage images, modeled costumes for theatrical performances and was engaged in illustrating books.
And in 1990 he held his first solo exhibition at the Museum of fine arts of Turkmenistan. This exhibition was highly appreciated not only by audiences and critics, but also the community of artists that is the highest compliment a young budding talent.
Since 1993 Michael went to conquer Moscow. He as an artist began to cooperate fruitfully with the various book publishers. And it should be noted that very successfully. His illustrations have been widely popular and the name became famous.
Master, radically changing the style and technique applied to Western culture that inspired him in his youth. Moreover, now behind his shoulders was tremendous private experience of the painter, a philosophy of life and the rush of unrestrained imagination that instantly reflected in the works of the Russian surrealist.
And just a year later Michael became a member of the prestigious new-йоркского National arts club, and in 2002, @ - a member of the Society of arts of London and a regular participant of the annual European exhibitions.
To date, Cheval has created his own, clearly recognisable style, which began to imitate some novice masters, Surrealists, and that"s saying a lot.
His works are not just in leading galleries and private collections in the United States, and the State museums of fine arts of Turkmenistan and Russia, as well as in private collections Gina Lolobrija, Ernst Fuchs and Ian.
Source: https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/020419/42704/
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