As far as dynamic artistic life of Odessa? And anyway, does it exist today

[Nora]

- Of course, there is. Open galleries, artists feel so excited and lift ... Do you know how sway our economic life, now some decline, but still the picture is written, there are new names. And more than the middle generation - in Kiev, they appear, and here ... No, no, no, I think that the exhibition at the gallery Dymchuka an exhibition in the Maritime Gallery - all this, I think, shows the life of art. It's okay, at least with regard to faith, freedom, and it seems to me ... Those criteria, which for us it was important - certainly met.

(full interview Odessa artist Valery Basantsa)

[Fed]

It is a pity that the advertised site stops security system, "has a bad reputation."

Could you post an article here?

[Nora]

Oddly enough, this website respectable magazine Art Ukraine /

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Artist Valery Basanets: "The constant focus on yourself extinguishes receptors that we have a»


New interview in the project Golubovsky Eugene and Eugene Demenkov "A vague desire of the slothful"

 

- Is there such a thing as self-esteem. In the artistic life of Odessa as you see your place - in the top ten in the top five?

- This is a provocative question. Long time, maybe already 20 years ago, the House of Scientists once we met, there was talk of art, Odessa. This period was a very expressive. Was Yegorov. Was there Khrushchev - can not remember, is not the case. And there were, remember Sasha Anufrieva, recalled that period. And I remember, as I said - for some reason I was such a thesis. Then I said I was afraid to make a mistake in self-esteem, I had better be less than a disappointment then to come. Something. I doubt the correctness of this estimate, but that this regulation at first, second or third hard for me to give, to be honest.

- As far as dynamic artistic life of Odessa? And anyway, does it exist today?

- Of course, there is. Open galleries, artists feel so excited and lift ... Do you know how sway our economic life, now some decline, but still the picture is written, there are new names. And more than the middle generation - in Kiev, they appear, and here ... No, no, no, I think that the exhibition at the gallery Dymchuka an exhibition in the Maritime Gallery - all this, I think, shows the life of art. It's okay, at least with regard to faith, freedom, and it seems to me ... Those criteria, which for us it was important - certainly met.

- Each age has formulated some kind of artistic direction. Late 19 th - impressionism, 20 th - here and cubism, and surrealism, and abstract art ... Which of the directions for you personally affected?

- I was influenced by the artist Yakovlev. I was so right I say: no direction, and Vladimir Yakovlev. That's the idea of abstract art, he came from. I am here, incidentally, in the journal "Museum provulok" wrote about him. A little more to write, but it ... Because, basically, when I touched the abstract art, I realized: this is the real thing for an artist. Because the canvas - an artificial, single-part, it's another world, well, wrote about it, he said, Picasso, and others. But abstraction gives an absolute, I think charter. But by how you define the quality of the abstract work, I think we can judge, and the level of understanding of the artist works of art.

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- Were you a teacher? Not in the school sense, but as a master, as artists. You have already called Muscovite Yakovlev, and Odessa?

- I can not name specifically. Of Odessa can only say - Strelnikov Anoufriev ... Well, of course, Egorov, too. But not as soon Egorov painter, but as a person and an artist who brought an understanding of destination and the essence of creativity. Well, yes, in fact, it's messianism, to some extent.

- Today, Odessa critics called Egorova and Khrushchev classics Odessa school. Firstly, whether you agree with that, and secondly, someone else would you call from Odessa artists?

- I agree. Egorov and Khrushchev really deserved. They are very opposite. Simply amazing - in concept and in relation to the life and art. In general, Odessa - a young city, a young art. But there is a subtle combination of an artificial environment with the natural environment. Plus, of course, there are people here internationality, the opportunity provided by such a rise that's art. A call I could have many: Luda Hawk Lyusik Mezhberg - so, well, well. They are very different, very specific, to Odessa just fine.

- How would you explain what the contemporary art that is contemporary art?

- I have a claim to that title "Urgent". Because 20-30 years ago, when we fell into the hands of magazines, we are actually here is a contemporary art seen. It is, apparently, have long been present in the western world. There is a demand for it, there seems to exhibitions. And the exhibition itself in the Maritime Gallery is essentially parallels with the Soviet exhibitions. There was also contemporary art.

- Socialist Realism?

- Yes. And the dreams of those artists had hit something. He could hit in his apartment, hang collections in some. Or theme, or some unusual song ... But it was relevant in the context of the time. This is true, perhaps in the context of the present day. I do not know, I would have been young - maybe I would have some period of his life devoted to it. I can not say.

- Is the Odessa Art province? Is Ukraine artistic province? If yes, then where is the center?

- In the Ukrainian borders can say, perhaps, but within the boundaries of something more difficult for me to speak. Because nowhere on it does not get to. You see, years ... We're not talking, all of 70 years, we say, for example, in the late 20's art here has evolved on other bases, in other paradigms, at another level. And the art, western, it mastered yet no visual way, and generally, there it was constantly in motion. Simply we have here a huge unfilled niche remained. And what we are doing now, to some extent, society accepts and does not say that it is outdated, it already was. Because there is a need, and I think that this niche art of Ukraine should be filled. Just like the art of Odessa, I also think the gap should be filled.

- Market valuation of the artist at auction determines whether you have the significance of the artist?

- No, definitely not. I can not say about Western artists, I can not say. But as it starts to happen again now with us, there is here in this topic. As far as I've seen in the auction catalog of relevant operations and price - can not agree, to be honest.

- In 2009, when, where were you to sell your work?

- Until I heard a rumor such that one of my very old works, the very old, which lay 30 years in the Union of Artists, and when it revealed the bins, looking for work to pay for repairs, found. In general, it was somewhere in Moscow at some auction. I do not know it was purchased or not, because she does not belong to me, and I'm here in any way the price should not be.

- Forecasts thing unreliable, and yet necessary. Do you think that will evolve as an art? Towards an abstract? In the direction of figurative? Or even go in the direction of, say, the pageant - the installation and so on and so forth?

- It's not that complicated, but how would unproductive response. Because we have already, maybe 20, maybe 30 years, and we assume expected. Back in the 60's we thought too. But it was a specific situation. And about the fine arts, trying to cover it all, as far as I know, it's hard to catch the trend. These trends like "Contemporary", they do exist, and in Western art there. I mean not only them. And abstract art, and teatralizovannost, and everything goes, the more the theater looks like. And anyway, painting as it loses its specific inherent in her face. There are so hard to tell whether this refers to a painting, or is it already applies to some, well installation ... This is simply from another area. A painting, it turns out, this is a jeweler's art is, you know, when there hands something to do, where a clear action - there are Farb, canvas, cardboard box. Because, it turns out, is it, this tvorchist, it goes further back, goes further. And I can not say that it is not tvorchist. Because they are looking for association, they are looking for ... In fact, there is a junction with music, theater ... So I find it hard to say. I just think that all these rivers merge, merged, and now it all - again! - And some huge sea, and it is difficult to see the shore, where everything was.

- Does the policy on your creativity?

- No, not affected. Rather, it affects such a spiritual camp. We experienced no wonder that this ... We were all pretty ... I do not have fighters may have been dissidents in the sense that, on the social front, the political. Rather, in this aspect. We have experienced for the alteration, for these new ideas, for every new piece that came from. And hope, hope, hope ... So, of course ... There is already a tradition ...

- I remembered that Sinyavsky once said: "I have with the Soviet authorities aesthetic differences."

- And now you can say so, actually. So, you can: beautiful and ugly power authority - is also possible to say so. Because if we extend the aesthetics at all, in fact, we all now feel. And everything becomes as it were, affiliated with this aspect. And indeed, maybe not so relevant are any problems paying salaries or something, I do not know, some of these things, but the beauty of power - as it would have been important.

- How long do you feel an artist?

- Somewhere in the 63-meter ... no, in the 61 th, I arrived here in Odessa, and never studied anything - no school, nothing. And when I came here, there were very prepared guys. Finished art school ... So like at this school I felt so confident. Just because that's the group, Shura Anufriev when we immediately began to engage in creative work, understand that this is all, and immediately have a first-rate work. And yet, I'm in the 61 th year, in my opinion, has decided to throw it all in and go swimming. I wish ... I think I may take a sailor. I wanted terribly to see the world. But I have not taken, and if so, it was necessary to continue it here ... probably somewhere in 1965, I think, began to feel more biased, a man of art.

- Do you think that your creative expression today affect on society? What do you do, your manner of writing, your work is already in some way affect the viewer?

- It should be strongly untwist themselves, their exhibition to this effect. And since I have never to this, in fact, did not seek, and that popularity - it is simply the best of my efforts is weak. So I doubt that there are special students, special audiences. If possible, I can show their work, not more.

- Do students, followers?

- Do not feel. I think not.

- In Odessa, disappeared a professional art critic. Do it for you?

- Need for me and, moreover, all of us. It is absolutely necessary. So I recently heard a radio transmission about Marcel Proust. Said the woman, in general, a connoisseur, she studied in France. And that's what it says: that Marcel Proust complex writer. A huge array, you can tell, he wrote. He is now in France, in fact, the measure of all. This is a time when very little reading. And all this has made the criticism. Because it constantly, insistently she explained the meaning created by him. And the result - his constant presence in the cultural space. Same with artists. So I think it is absolutely necessary.

- There is a wizard, which is most important medium, subculture. There is a wizard for which is most important focus, communicating with the book. Which group would you think about yourself?

- I think something, and another is needed. Because it is necessary provocation. I can not tell you about others, each in different ways, but as if you were not confident in their abilities and their opportunities for inspiration, yet the constant focus on yourself extinguishes receptors that we have. Because you have to see, hear. This is often enough to be excited and start working. Do not artists must necessarily surround you, but communication is necessary.

- 3.5 What books you read in 2009, which made a strong impression?

- French artist, composer and poet Jean Cocteau. Read his essays, articles on art. Simply luxurious. I knew him very long, but not read.

- Do you want the Union of Artists? Is not it time to unite in a creative group of practicing some principles and to coalesce around, let's specific galleries? Or is it needed in the Artists' Union, the Soviet model?

- You know, to destroy - not to build. I think we've had all sorts of destruction and it is not always ended good. Can be painful, this is acceptable. To construct there something in return? There are no guarantees. Group - it was good. But it may be in the middle of the Union. And yet the Union that I think is important, there is a tradition, a Soviet tradition. It is a tradition, as it were contacting the state and us, not even as artists and as a community like this. Well, there is the same mechanics, there is a turner. Well, there are artists - we are 200 people here in Odessa. They have specific problems, specific proposals ... In general, all such that, in principle, you may need to establish contact with the city. So I think it must be maintained, and it itself will be determined later. Because now no holding power. I understand how to aggression - that is where the bureaucratic apparatus, because the artists do can not get together, can not agree about anything. And at least some commonality. And the idea, because it is a good idea to meet ... Now there is no malice of some, what was in the 60 years.

- Which of the galleries in Odessa, in Ukraine, do you consider yourself a close-minded? Is there such a gallery?

- I have so little in galleries ... I do not have anything like a loved one. Well, here Dymchuk, but then how to say, he made a series of exhibitions, and pleased that there was a situation of purely architectural and very nice. Picture is good, because it's still a small space, it's not a lot of work is what brings to the viewer.

- The artist - not a prisoner workshop. Are there any contacts with artists, musicians, poets?

- It used to be anymore. Were guests, was somehow more fun. It seemed to me that more is yet to be fewer problems. But somehow it turns out that they did not disappear, and the inspiration to overcome all of them less and less.

- Strive to you to communicate with collectors?

- I do not aspire to, but always happy to meet. And not because of hidden desires only to sell. If he wants me to buy, I think it was very important to see he looked at me, hear my thoughts. I think this is a must. Look at this: whatever the book about the artist, there is always a portrait of him, photo. This kind of business card that we are very much about the wizard.

- In some collections, in which prestigious museum for you to see your work?

- There is the Museum of Modern Art. In Literary little, what got them from a collection of Volodya Asriev. There is the National Museum in Kiev, a lot of work. There was something in Passau. But I do not know. Me someone said, but whether this is or not ...

- Whether you travel? Were somewhere in 2009?

- No, it was not. I am half sick.

- How accurately imagine what you must do in 2010? Is there already some form a plan of action?

- I would like to speak a little bit more, I mean, pen on paper, to speak up about our affairs, perhaps the experience may be, those staff who remain in the memory. I would like to write about this. It would be desirable. But I do not know how it happens. And then you want to do sculpture. And the canvas like to write, and want to photograph.

- Exhibition of sculptures you were not?

- Was an exhibition of paintings and sculptures. For her, Stepanov wrote the article. A eulogy he wrote me. Time passed, and now that we realize how Nikolai Stepanov was a cool sculpture. And in this context I am pleased.

- As for shows with no one agreed to in 2010?

- No, I do not agree. Better to have a first work, and then ... though it is also necessary. So lazy as well - take pictures of the studio and is already going to show.

[Fed]

Сообщение от Nora; 1426621"

And the art, western, it mastered yet no visual way, and generally, there it was constantly in motion. Simply we have here a huge unfilled niche remained. And what we are doing now, to some extent, society accepts and does not say that it is outdated, it already was. Because there is a need, and I think that this niche art of Ukraine should be filled.

By the tone of the interview for the dynamic life progolosuesh.
But this phrase I liked. Indeed, people have to fly to Ukraine, then it was, and often out of necessity. Legally shut Ukraine out of the external world of art, created an excellent environment proizrostaniya that "what is obsolete already."

Refers not to the old artists, who already have a name, having worked in an environment that could not choose, but to the young. We had to communicate with a wide range on the basis of discussion and criticism of popular current artists aged. Chatter, not to build, so when he looked the work of young "fighters", was horrified - impotence of thought and artistry involved in thinking, comic books and seen on the computer, individual works of fashionable Western artists.
Opposes the other wing-level hud.shkoly banal landscapes.
All this is not even a second, just pathetic.

This is the obvious result of a new Iron Curtain. Young artists go really travel (not in Egypt) and see the real world can not. In Ukraine, almost nothing from the outside does not do. Therefore, no competition. Neither the cash nor the terms of the aesthetic. That continues to reproduce life miserable.

In essence topic - dynamic did not notice. Now apparent stagnation - has passed on the "old" places. "Some are not," while others do not bloom (to put it mildly). But for collectors of "old men" - plus, prices have fallen greatly. Time to buy. Well - that's a positive.

[Nora]

Сообщение от Fed

The tone of the interview for the dynamic life progolosuesh.

In essence topic - dynamic did not notice. Now apparent stagnation - has passed on the "old" places. "Some are not," while others do not bloom (to put it mildly). But for collectors of "old men" - plus, prices have fallen greatly. Time to buy. Well - that's positive.

Dynamics and Basanets - is antagonism

[AlexandraL]

Was in Odessa at New Year. I can not say that the artistic life to a standstill. Held many exhibitions of different course. But this variety can be found interesting. The café "Moonlight" exhibition Sergei Lykov. Theme is not mine, but interesting work. Furthermore, met a young and very talantlyvym artist Ivan Savenok. He was still a student, but already had 3 solo exhibitions [IMG] http://www.rapsodyal.com/p71aa1.html. Here his work. Something from Mathis, something of Cézanne, but very Health Review.
At the Duma of the area was the author's tree Dyulfana, funny, avant-garde in style, especially looks good in the evening. Does anyone have the photo, place.

[тандем]

Uninteresting interview with the artist a regional scale.

[Вивьен]

Сообщение от "AlexandraL

Does anyone have the photo, place.

That tree Dima Dulfana.