Tabenkin
 

in the MMSI Ilya Tabenkin on Tverskaya Boulevard

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

Ilya Tabenkin on Tverskaya Boulevard 9
 

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

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.