Leonid Sokov
 

There is the coincidence: I have long intended to make the story of Lena juice, but somehow put off, but last night Frosik hung pictures of the German exhibition, including Lenin's work, and today she wrote that Sokova difficult to see, so I had to go to work.
I scan a catalog of juice, was published in GRM "Palace Edition", not completely, because the directory very thick. I hope that the images that I'll lay out, will give you an idea about this artist and sculptor.

Warn you: I adore and most Lenya juices - a close and trusted friend, and his work.
The most inventive and fun of Conceptual (which in their bulk seems to me a rather dull fellow, even when they are joking - or rather, especially when they are joking) edakii Lesko Lefty, his work is so interesting to consider, everything is terribly cunning, there full of some motor, moving cogs and shpuntikov - for example, the work of "Heart Corvalan (unfortunately, I do not have to reproduce it), a healthy heart from pleksiglaza in which rages a kind of scarlet liquid ...

But behind these merry sculptures and objects worth orgomnoe skills - see how subtle, refined flavor, a masterstroke, stingy, expressive drawing!

Okay, finish your Sokovsky eulogy, but I repeat: I'm terribly fond of Lenya and juice would be happy if I could infect you with my feelings:)

But from the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Stalin and Monroe
1991
Paper glued on canvas, photo paper, acrylic, bronze paint, collage
96,7 x 85,7
Admission 2005: from the museum "Tsarina".

Hammer and Sickle. Kinetic object
1990
Wood, metal, bronze paint, rope, gum, hinges
18,5 x 15 x 6,5
Admission 2005: from the museum "Tsarina".

The meeting of two sculptures (Lenin and Giacometti)
1990
Gypsum
50 x 39,5 x 14,5
Gift of the author in 1993.

Aesthetics creativity of the artist, one of the leading representatives of the Sots Art determine rustic origins, while vocational education sculpture. "Folklore" look and a heightened attention to the shape and material led to the emergence of unique wooden objects, trouble-free effect on the audience because of its rough "fair" nature. Simpler forms, bright colors and, most importantly, mobility, leading its origins in the mobile-traditional toys - these are the external characteristics of objects of the artist. These objects are transferred to the ideological content of Soviet political fetishes, depriving the latter of vital force, forced literally disintegrating before our eyes, turn to the attributes of a harmless buffoonery. Symbols of the communist utopia, claimed the completion of history and the overcoming of time, are organically inscribed in the tradition of grassroots carnival culture, and their deliberate comic "Interactivity" helps the viewer to undergo a course of psychological rehabilitation.

Gradually ...:)

Now from the last directory, published in Italy, 2 ago.
Product is very beautiful (and work, I think, amazingly beautiful), but the format for scanning uncomfortable.
Still, I scanned a few drawings could - that no one is saying that he can not draw (and in art school, and in Stroganovka, Juice was considered "god figure").

All true. And the sense of color and shape is fluent. Certainly he is the most gifted of all these mockers. But all the same and it works only talented anecdote, original wink. And like every anecdote - to the place and time. Had five to ten generations (and maybe earlier - oh how quickly everything is forgotten!), Erased from the mass consciousness of political and social characters, and will it work without exerting their context. It is very difficult for them to reach the hearts of the audience.
But, say, the art of Fra Angelico and sychas moves, excites and captivates in contact with him.

Partly I agree with you - but only partly. Recent work, which I put - "Hand", "Sun", "The Nose", others, reproductions of which I have. to sozhaleniyu not - I was convinced that no matter how much time has passed, no matter how many generations or change, no matter how blurred the political and social symbols - as long as people remain a sense of beauty, they will admire the clean lines and expressive forms of asceticism. Here we are dealing with real art.

"Bear with a balalaika, and liked the hook with the sperm - very expressive! True!

It seemed to me that he was with Guitar Picasso. (1912 77.5 x 35 x 19.3).
No?