Simon Faibisovich
Artist, critic, publicist.
Born in Moscow on February 10, 1949 in the family of a serviceman.
With 10 years in parallel with the general Krasnopresnenskuju attended art school.
1966-72 - student at Moscow Architectural Institute. After his graduation work in designing organizations combined with busy schedules, and then painting (from the late 70's).
1979-1988 - architect and designer of the monumental Combine Hudfonda USSR.
Since 1976. began to exhibit work in the basement of the Little Georgia, where the fall of 1985. They were spotted by the New York dealers and collectors.
Participant of numerous exhibitions in Europe and America. Personal exhibitions: Phyllis Kind Gallery (Chicago, 1989; New York, 1989 and 1990). Gallery of Inga Becker (Cologne, 1991), First Gallery (Moscow, 1990) and "Regina" (Moscow, 1992, "The latest demonstration, 1993," Evidence ").
Since 1987. paintings have been widely exhibited in the U.S., then in Western Europe and the USSR (Russia). 16 personal exhibitions. Repeated participation in art fairs in Chicago, Cologne and Basel.
His works are in museum collections in France, Germany, Canada, Poland, Russia, the United States and in prestigious private collections in Germany, Italy, Canada, the United States, Russia, France and Switzerland.
Main works
Scenic Cycles "shuttle bus" (12 paintings by 83-91g.g.), "Moscow Metro Lenin" (8 pictures 84-88g.g.), "Moscow train" (15 paintings by 85-91g.g.), On the Beach "(9 pictures 83-88g.g.)" At the station "(13 paintings by 86-90g.g.)" Holiday "(10 paintings by 86-90g.g.)" Queue "(13 paintings by 87 -90g.g.), "On the Bench" (4 pictures 89g.), "Negative" (6 pictures 89-90g.g.), "New York sabvey" (6 pictures 90-91g.g.). Diptychs "Conversation Piece" (82g.) and "Exchange" (89g.).
Picturesque exhibition projects: "The latest demonstration" (1992), "Evidence" (1993), "Chronicle of Current Events" (1994), "Together with Spielberg" (1995), "A chill ran for the gate (1997)," Returned value "(2001).
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in 1995 halted his father.
Currently performs with installations, photography and video art.
Projects
"Universal Greeting" (1997), "Our fuzz" (1999), "Every hunter wants to know" (2000), "The Living and the Dead" (2000), "node under the pines. Double Session" (2001), "My Window "(2001)," Everything has its time, everything has its place "(2001). Participation in international fotobennale in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod in 2002. Winner of "Silver Camera" 2002. in the category "Architecture".
In the late '80s began to write prose. Novels and short stories published in magazines Ogonyok (1989), "October" (1996), "Banner" (1997, 1999), "Golden Age" (1997), "Literary Review" (1997), "New World" ( 1998), solar plexus (Israel, 1999, 2001.), etc. Literature Prize magazine "Banner" for 1997 (novel "Uncle Adik" and essay "Moscow as the battlefield of history and myth").
Collections prose
"Things that are not" (EKSMO 2002), "Innocence" (OGI 2002).
Novel "The History of Disease: Short list of Andrey Bely Prize (2002), Nomination for Award" National Bestseller (2003).
In 1993, he began to speak as a journalist and essayist. Publication in newspapers today, "General Newspaper" "MN", "Alien", "BBC News", etc., in magazines, Foreign Literature "," Art Cinema "," Banner, "" New World "," Results "," Ogonyok "," XQ "," Pushkin "," inviolable reserve, etc. Collection of articles "Russian new and Semitrailers and used" (NLO 1999). Short list of Andrei Bely Prize (2000).
Lives and works in Moscow.
Solo Exhibitions
2003 - Lviv eyes Moskal. Moscow-Kiev-Lviv.
2002 - Pro Vision. II International Festival of Photography. Nizhny Novgorod. The "Earth and sky.
2001 - "Returned Values". Regina Gallery
2001 - "Everything has its time, everything has its place ...". Museum and Public Center im.Andreya Sakharov.
2001 - "My Window". Moscow House of Photography.
2001 - "node under the pines. Double Session. TV gallery. Moscow
2000 - "Every hunter wants to know ..." XL Gallery. Moscow.
2000 - "The Living and the Dead" (memories of summer). Marat Gelman. Moscow
1999 - "Our fuzz. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
1997 - "A chill ran for the gate." L-gallery. Moscow
1995 - "Farewell anniversary" (with B. Orloff). Regina Gallery. Moscow
1994 - "Chronicle of Current Events. Yakut Gallery. Moscow
1993 - "Evidence". Regina Gallery. Moscow
1992 - "The latest demonstration. Regina Gallery. Moscow
1991-Galerie Inge Baecker. Cologne. Germany
1990-Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. United States
1990 First Gallery. Moscow
1989-Phyllis Kind Gallery. Chicago. United States
1988-Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. United States
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002
- Contemporary Russian paintings. New arena. Moscow.
- Silver Camera. Exhibition-contest photos. Moscow House of Photography.
- Fotobennale 2002. Fourth International Month of Photography in Moscow. A series of "Holiday in Turkey" in the section "Children and Childhood" (bridge Bagration) and "The Seasons" in the section "Landscape" (Large Manege).
2001
- Art Moscow. Photoseries "Stadium" Lokomotiv ". Submitted by gallery" expert ".
- "Russian artists - Andy Warhol" (within the festival "Week of Warhol in Moscow"). Exhibition galleries Guelman.
- Age of Sakharov. Museum and Public cents to them. Sakharov
- Exhibition of new acquisitions. "Moscow House of Photography"
- Artmanezh. VI Contemporary Art Fair. Exposure Gallery of Regina. Manege.
2000
- Art of the twentieth century. The new permanent exhibition GTG.
- "Series". NCCA, Manege.
- "Silver Camera 2000". Competition for the best photo coverage of Moscow. Moscow House of Photography, Manege.
- Moscow International Art Fair ARTMANEZH. Exposure Gallery of Regina.
1999
- Museum of Contemporary Art. " Russian art of the late 50's - early 80's. Project A. Erofeev. CHA. Moscow
- "Act 99". Austria - Moscow. Museum of the City Veltzé - Manege.
- "Postwar Russian Avant-Garde" from the collection of Yuri Traysmana. Gos. Russian Museum - instantly. Tretyakov Gallery - Museum of the University of Miami (USA).
- Exhibition-laboratory "The idea of the museum of the USSR. Museum and Public Center. Andrei Sakharov. Moscow. Curator Yu Zlotnikov.
1997
- "History in the faces. A traveling exhibition of the cities of Russia's provinces. Open Society Institute, The State Museum Tsaritsyno.
- "Moscow hyperrealism. Exhibition of five. Project of the Association of Moscow galleries in the spring ART arena.
- The project "Universal Greeting". The exhibition galleries "Today" in the autumn ART arena.
1995
- Nonconformist art from the Soviet Union. Zimmerti Art Muzeum. University Radgers, New Jersey. USA.
1994
-Art Fair Cologn. Galerie Inge Baecker (Cologn). Gallery Sprovieri (Rome). Cologne. Germany
- "Before Neo and after Post - The New Russian Version". Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York.
1993-94
- "Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art". Stewart Levi Gallery, New York.
1993
- Monuments: Transformation for the Future. ICI. ICI. CHA. Moscow
- "White Night". Yakut Gallery. Moscow
- "Art-Hamburg" (The Art of Eastern Europe). Galerie Inge Baecker (Cologn). Hamburg. Germany
- "M'AIDEZ \\ MAYDAY". Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
1992
- "Art firsthand apology or embarrassment." Regina Gallery. Moscow
- "A Mosca ... A Mosca". Villa Kampoletto. Herculaneum; Gallery Communal. Bologna. Italy
- "My Father's House Has Many Mansions". Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
- "Glasnost Under Glass". Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
1991
- "Staats Portrait". Galerie Inge Baecker. Cologne
Germany
1990
-International Art Fair. Chicago. United States
- "Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism". The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. United States
- FIAC. Paris. France
-Art Fair Cologn. Cologne. Germany
- "Painting in Moscow and Leningrad". 1965-1990. Columbus Museum of Art. Columbus. United States
- Bulatov, Faibisovich, Gorokhovski, Kopystianskiye, Vassilyev. Phyllis Kind Gellery, Chicago
1989
- "Pictures of painting. First Gallery. Moscow
- "Behind the Ironic Curtain". Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. United States
- "Interart". Poznan. Poland
- "Moscow-3". Eva Pol Gallery. West Berlin
-International Art Fair. Chicago,. United States
- "Von der Revolution zur Perestroika". Sowietische kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig. Musee 'Art Modern. Saint-Etienne. Switzerland
- "Wirklichkeit Als Konzept II. Die Jungere Generation". Galerie Inge Baecker. Cologne. Germany
1988
- "Ich lebe - Ich sehe". Kunstmuseum. Bern.
Switzerland
-International Art Fair. Chicago. United States
-Art Fair Cologn. Cologne. Germany
-Art Messe. Basel. Switzerland
- "Glastnost". Kunsthalle in Emden. Emden. Germany
- "Beyond the Ironical Curtain". Galerie Inge Baecker. Cologne. Germany
- "Labyrinth". Palace of Youth. Moscow
-Diese Aussterllung wird veranstaltet unter der Schirmherrschaft des Prinzen Alexander von Hessen Philippsthal-Barchfeld. Germany
1987
- "Direct from Moscow". Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. United States
-International Art Fair. Chicago. United States
- "Retrospective: 1957-1987". Thus, the Hermitage. Moscow
- "Post-Socialistic Realism: New Soviet Reality". Firebird Gallery. Alexandria. United States
1985
-16-I Youth Exhibition. Moscow
1976-88
- Exhibition in the basement of the Municipal Committee of the graphs in the Little Georgia
Prepositional case
Simon Faibisovich definitely the most intelligent representative of the picturesque photorealism Moscow. Inside the directions - he is the one who is interested not so much hard work from a photograph as a "source material", as the overcoming of the latter, the movement of the selected "object study" in a different context. The new reality created by doubling the reception. "Object", having a photographic interpretation of the focus, through the picturesque plastic. The result - a new reality - is achieved not by enlargements (blow up), and the finest "spray" focus. Image becomes multidimensional. Faibisovich as it casts doubt on a direct-touch with reality, his paintings - a philosophical interpretation of reality. Tendency to philosophical statements, of course, puts the artist's work in an international context-to-date, one of the main tenets of which - the art of the second half of the twentieth century, a substitute for the function of philosophy. Double ostranenie allows Faibisovich with an almost Buddhist calm and deal with social discourse, and analyze the inner life, and explore the landscape outside the window. Active in the techniques of painting, recently Faibisovich away from the picturesque practice. His instrument of knowledge of reality at this stage - pure photography. It is logical for the artist minded philosophical categories, for the analysis of reality with the help of fototoapparata - not so much the end result of creativity (although photographic experiments Faibisovich deserve separate consideration), but, hopefully, the preparatory material for further pictorial essay. Moreover, the artist often spoke about the possibility of returning to the fold of the actual painting. At the exhibition visitors will get a rare opportunity to get acquainted with the works of art become classics Russian actual art.
Elena Selina
Text for the exhibition "Contemporary Russian paintings. 1992 - 2002."