Russia Academy of Arts
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Invite you to an exhibition of works of national artist of Russia,
Full Member of Russia Academy of Arts
Oleg Vukolova
Painting
Biography of the artist is full of unexpected and unpredictable turns. Childhood in Pyatigorsk, studying at St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Repin, participation in alternative exhibitions and prosecution of independent artistic position, culminating in exile, returning to Moscow to participate in the major European forum of contemporary art, creating an international association of artists in Provence, whose president was Oleg.
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The master's attracted attention in the early 60's, right after graduation, when the artist was close to the masters of "severe style", soon in his works there were clear intonation, who came into our culture of Italian neorealism. Responsive to the processes that took place in modern European artistic culture, Vukolov brings new figurative paint in her palette, creating your own unique artistic style. Latitude creative range Vukolova associated with various genres. He showed himself and as an outstanding portraitist, and as a unique master plot-thematic pictures. And as the author of poetic still-lifes and landscapes. His works have been discovered before the audience at once familiar and strange, wonderful world, transformed by fantasy artist, full of poetry and romance.
In the 80 years, and later, while living in the West, Vukolov felt the urgent need to upgrade plastic language. So a new object of his attention, in which the painter wanted to show the diversity of "game culture". This symbolic objects in his works became the pillow as an essential attribute of life. Inanimate object found in his work a special spirituality and mnogoassotsiativnost. These compositions Vukolov finds powerful energy, semantic and plastic module, a kind of tuning fork of his personal relationship to being.
In a creative workshop in Marseille, the artist creates a series of works "Sails", combining the search for Russian avant-garde, his romanticism and intellectual context.
Vukolova paintings were exhibited at numerous domestic and foreign exhibitions. They occupied a worthy place in the collections of museums and galleries around the world - the National Museum of Columbia (USA), a collection of Irene and Peter Ludwig Museum of Modern Art in Cologne, Aachen and Beijing, the National Gallery in Budapest, Paris, Bratislava, Warsaw, Vienna, funds Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and Luxembourg, and other works of the artist are also stored in the largest national museums - the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, many museums in Russia and CIS countries, are the property of foreign and domestic private collections.
Creativity Oleg Vukolova - a striking and significant phenomenon of contemporary art, has entered into the context of the world's artistic process.
Opening - June 16, 2009 at 16.00
Showrooms Russia Academy of Arts (Prechistenka, 21)