"Studio 116" Gallery, "The Ark"

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Ekaterina Grigorieva exhibition "Studio 116" gallery "Ark"
Ekaterina Grigorieva was born in an intellectual family in Moscow. Her father, a historian Eugene Schilling, was one of the founders of the Museum of the USSR (now the Russian Museum of Ethnography). Traditional for the initiation of the Sixties art Grigoryeva took place in 11 years, when her parents brought her to the studio of Robert Falk. Memories about the visit she compared then with "glittering knife blade." Grigorieva general, judging from her notebooks, was a woman of enthusiastic and thought in terms of the Gospel, do not hesitate to call Andrei Rublev "angel" and often using the word "revelation". But apart from a common model of consciousness is common to many of her contemporaries, Grigoryeva and had a real talent for painting. That is an instinct that allows accurately determine how and where are paint, regardless of what is pictured.
Range of subjects Grigoryeva is common for masters of the so-called silent art 1930 like Antonina Sofronova or Tatiana Mavrina. This "genre" of life outskirts of villages, the protagonists become burghers of the place of delayed and out of place the little fingers, the interior - an intelligent apartment with cheap china and old photographs. Grigorieva dissolves the familiar form in a constant flow of various shades, masterfully mixing warm, cold and skin tones. Understanding of color she must - and can easily be recognized in this - one of the leaders semidesyatnicheskoy metaphysics Natalia Nesterova and universally respected painter Irina Zatulovskaya. And the monotony of form and interest to ordinary people brings with it late Mikhail Roginsky , singer asphalt boredom and endless Khrushchev.
Unlike Roginsky Grigorieva subtly reacted to changes in color and behavior of his characters that have taken place in Russia after perestroika. The farther in the 90's, the more dramatic the color she brings to the job. It may be, the main picture "Transfer teapot" is a scene with a touch of the absurd kind: a woman in a cotton stretch the other acid-green tea produced in China. Grigorieva perfectly catches the cheapness and the brightness of a new capitalist world. Loved it the women more and more frivolous. They throw back their heads furiously bacchantes, and portraits of girls who smoke two years ago resemble relaxedness protagonist "School".
The curators of "Ark" see the reason for low visibility Grigorieva in her humble nature and lack of "elbow pihatelno-instinct." However, the situation is more complicated. In order to give her and her predecessors on "silent art" of the 1930 tribute, it is necessary to turn the hierarchy and to play an alternative history, hobby freshmen History Faculty. Assume that the position of head of Russian artists suddenly shift Ilya Repin (according to conservatives, and most of the intelligentsia), and Kazimir Malevich (according to connoisseurs of the avant-garde). And put on a pedestal, for example, Philip Malyavina, pet of Paris early last century paintings are short-sighted person at a distance of two meters seem forerunners of abstract expressionism. Line politicized Citizenship (Repin) and constructing a new man in the new world (Malevich) gives way to vibrant exotic style a la Russe and Art Nouveau. In this coordinate system expressionist Alexander Drevin becomes more important than his namesake, Rodchenko, the pioneer of the "severe style" Pavel Nikonov dominates conceptualist Ilya Kabakov and so on and so forth. With Malyavin and Nikonov Grigoriev have in common a certain mannerism, a game of dressing like a sentimental play shepherds and shepherdesses Rococo. For her, the world was color, and the most enchanting spots of the artist's vision is not supplied the cowherd, but the townsfolk. In history, they rarely appear, but the art Grigorieva an excellent opportunity to slightly to correct it.
Valentin Dyakonov
The newspaper Kommersant »№ 233 (4533) on 16.12.2010

[fross]

Review resembles porridge, a hundred years in one pot and in a hurry mixed, the number of names of recognized artists like patch the hole.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

The curators of "Ark" see the reason for low visibility Grigorieva in her humble nature and lack of "elbow pihatelno-instinct".

I also see the reason for its low popularity in the other.
I was at one time was often asked to advise on investments in her paintings, especially after her death (E. Grigorieva died 06/13/2010), but I have not found the courage to advise people to buy her paintings, it is to invest in them.
But I will be glad to make a mistake.

[Pavel]

I deleted the message because hesitated.
Work are remembered.

[Konstantin]

Pereslavlskaya prosecutors - Funny Pictures, very funny dorisovyvaesh yourself of those who was inside.