Today is the day the memory of Mikhail Roginsky.
What newspapers 5 years ago:
BBC News - Culture - 06.07.2004
July 5 in Paris at 73 th year of life died Mikhail Roginsky - one of the most important Russian artists of the second half of the twentieth century. For nearly half a century, he enjoyed great respect in the artistic environment - not officious, and freedom-loving.
Time Roginsky still come.
Velimir Moyst
The newspaper "Kommersant» № 121 (2960) on 07.07.2004
July 5 in Paris hospice at the age of seventy-three years, died painter Mikhail Roginsky.
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It has long remained the most misunderstood of the Russian non-conformists.
Emigration (artist went to France in 1978) has not brought him international fame stars, but for how long removed from the local context. In Russia, Mikhail Roginsky was recognized only in recent years, his personalki went to the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum. Mikhail Roginsky even nominated for State Award, which he, however, not received, and the artist himself never sought to enter the establishment. But he became the winner of this year established the award "Master", which from this year's awards are an independent jury of art historians and art critics.
For Michael Roginskii stuck honor, but an inaccurate definition of father of the Russian pop-art, thanks to the work beginning 1960. Then he created perhaps the first time in the history of national art objects - sawn from plywood and painted with bright red paint "door" with this pen and the same red "wall" with this switch. But in fact, Mikhail Roginsky was not a Soviet pop artist or a precursor of conceptualism, but perhaps that the last great Russian painter. And even his "door" and "walls" were in fact monochrome abstractions - life colors in them was far more important than anecdotal recognizability of the object. Roginsky questioned the very notion of the picture, as did conceptualist, but was not a conservative, believe that we need to observe fidelity to traditional crafts. He simply believed in the need to recreate the world of paint as a way to find an explanation and justification.
In the Moscow studio of Mikhail Roginsky I got a child, my parents priyatelstvovali with the artist. The cellar was blocked up with not so much paintings as paint itself in a sort of primitive magmatic state: on the numerous palettes, easels, and even just on the floor of this towering stalagmites poluzasohshego pigment. The same landscape is constantly reproduced in the Parisian workshop of the artist, in which I ever visit again later. But Mikhail Roginsky was not at all a sort of natural, instinctive painter. On the contrary, he thought and spoke passionately about art, whether it be impressions from the regular trips to the Louvre or published in Russian Philosophy of Andy Warhol. In the history of art for him there was no overriding authority. By Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and other living or deceased masters it applies to our colleagues, with whom he is in a constant internal dialogue, often verging even before the "quarrel": Mikhail Alexandrovich could suddenly get angry at this or that textbook artist, call him a scoundrel and a rogue to a few years later, "forgive" a fellow of art. Debate, which the artist had with his colleagues, never touched the painful fact of recognition and fame. Mikhail Roginsky and the West remained fervent nonconformist and bessrebrenikom and never considered "career" artistic category.
Even having lived a quarter-century France, Mikhail Roginsky continued to draw the Soviet Moscow 1960-1970-ies: modular homes hruschoby, suburban wasteland, slushy streets, trams and red telephone booths long-obsolete models, the crowd at bus stops and submissive queue. But Roginskii remained faithful to "moth" is not because they believed that the so-laid by the Russian emigres in Paris: his paintings were not suitable for exotic souvenirs to foreigners. Just the world that in 1960 Mikhail Roginsky rescued from the Soviet escheat, expanding it into secure in its simplicity, the elementary unit of life - bread, a glass door, cooking, square tiles, - gradually began to gather together to take on the completeness of time and space, turning from painful personal experience in an objective aesthetic integrity.
Thanks to Michael Roginsky Soviet Moscow has become the same fact of art that Paris or America Impressionist Edward Hopper, and turn took the firm of evangelical scenes Giotto. Other artists were subjected to the Soviet world deconstruction or mythologizing
- Mikhail Roginsky was the only one who managed to capture the world as a kind of timeless, enduring and free from ideological speculation authenticity.
b-Irina Kulik
7.07.2004 GiF.Ru
DIED Misha
It is another sad news. After Edward Gorokhovsky Michael died Roginsky. He was not only great, but the ideal artist.
Such as Roginskii will be gone.
Andrei Kovalev