Oleg Khvostov "Absolute Painting»
December 19, 2010 - March 21, 2011
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Reproduction of "La Gioconda" by Leonardo da Vinci on the wall of rustic cuisine, the countryside, "Sauna" Serebrya as a reminder of the unprecedented sorokagradusnoy heat this summer, an unusual herd of cows around Rublevsky highway this time become a source of inspiration for artist Oleg Khvostov.
"Absolute Painting" is about forty works on canvas, executed oil and acrylic. The size of the smallest paintings - 40x50 inches, the largest 1.5 x 2 meters. The exhibition will also see several composite images made with acrylic paints on cardboard boxes.
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A key part of the exhibition - the so-called "remakes" - author's interpretation of the samples of classical painting of Leonardo da Vinci to Kiprensky. But the tail does not set itself the task to engage in creative discussion with the great authors. For him, these paintings, or rather, their reproduction, such as the raw material source, as birch or river for the village landscape. A remake of Leonardo appears on the show not because of the fact that the village of Dmitrov is 30 kilometers closer to the Louvre, than Moscow. But rather because during the period in the village Gridchinholle "Oleg Khvostov caught by the arm a good album with reproductions. Moreover, the person on the paintings-remake of "Lady with Goronostaem" and "Poor Liza" (the tail, this work is called "Girl with a Flower") - owned by contemporaries, the real friends of the author. They have played a role in these paintings as well as in the theater actors play Hamlet or Richard III.
Most of the works for "Absolute Art" written in the past six months in the workshop "Gridchinholla. Paintings created in the village, which determined their subjects. Oleg Khvostov refers to the life and home near Moscow. For example, in the case of the "Mona Lisa" Leonardo: nearly every rural kitchen had a reproduction of this painting from the Soviet era Ogonyok magazine. Interpretation of the village, "Bani" Zinaida Serebryakova - a monument to the terrible heat sorokagradusnoy in July this year. "Landscape with Cows" came after years of swimming in the ponds near Sheremetievskiy Rublevo Assumption highway.
The word "absolute" in the title of the exhibition might be perceived as pretentious. This meaning of this word is not understood. Initially painting - the image forms on the surface with paint - took on a representational function. But with the advent of abstraction rid of it. It is assumed that she can gain freedom from both illustrative and from abstraction, and become "absolute painting».
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