Exhibition of New Artists Gallery Inutero

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NEW ARTISTS
(1982-1987)
                   

March 25 - April 25, 2011

All the artists represented here, undoubtedly geniuses.
Well it is not necessary on this at length, as
this is so well known.
T. Novikov (1985)

".. And Noah came down on the grass, spread out his arms to the sun and gramoglasno said:" ACCA ", it was only to subjugate us to the floor, and with it passed on to someone from us their power and purity .." With these words begins the film
Assa, the first time since congestion created in our country, together with the avant-garde artist from St. Petersburg-union New Artists.
The main energy generator was T. Novikov. He was a true activist, the center of all events combined, organized exhibitions and participated in all national teams exhibitions appeal to all the new artists. Timur wrote manifestos, and in fact was a formalist, creating a new university, and then the New Academy. All documented the ironic, is not without claims for eternity.
It was a fun time for those who are waiting for change, who was a young man who was very underground, which escaped the rapid flow of creativity, breaking for a formalist, dusty surface of Soviet everyday routine. They worked without loss in anything, lower, regardless of circumstances, using materials found literally underfoot: the buckram, tabletop or cabinet door. In their artistic arsenal: paintings, drawings, collages, cartoons, performances, parallel cinema, the author kniga, etc. They were writers and poets, artists and musicians, and be sure to alternate mods. Many had no art education, but the force of attraction of all that happens, tightens and pulls out a gray reality in the new world of art.
The main thing for them, do freely and cheerfully, to the rhythm of dancing (or in a trance), outside of style and dogmatic constraints.
New Artists opposed the creativity of the old wave of avant-garde artists, who were afraid and talked about politics. Punkish attitude towards reality and politics cheerfully young people. Unlike Sterligovtsev or, say, Mitkov, the authors of easily recognizable. It seems that the association was not a single style: Do Kotelnikov - a wild expressionistic painting, I Krisanova and Tsoi - neat drawings kvadratnogolovyh men, have Savchenkova - a pictorial history, almost Cartoons. But there was a link with the traditions of the early twentieth century avant-garde. The idea of ​​neo-primitivism, Larionovskogo "vsechestva and stylish rebellion Mayakovsky lived again. "Everyone - artists, and everything - art, suddenly confronted with the ideas of new wave and gave a burst of activity of a new type.
That's right, playfully, not without pathos, "New Artists" being a typical phenomenon of postmodern era, could jest, to mock all the values ​​of the previous culture and to feel superior. What they were.

Among the "New Artists" appeared "New Theatre", "New Composers" (I. Verichev, V. Alakha), "New Cinema" (Group Necro realists ")," pirate "television (the creators of Yu and W. Woodman Mamyshev-Monroe), "New Literary
Association ". Later, they teamed up with" Movie "and" Pop-Mechanics. "

For the first time in a long time in Moscow opens an exhibition of the association "New Artists" in the Panopticon INUTERO, representing the St. Petersburg art - the cultural Mecca of Russia, which logically continues the expansion of the "New Artists" after the exhibition in the Russian Museum. The exhibition presents works from various collections, goes on to describe the history of association and the atmosphere of the "crazy" 80's.
VI Sotnikov
G. Guryanov
B. Gutsevich
I. Savchenko
Vladimir Ovchinnikov
A. Khlobystin
K. Khazanovich
I. Ryatov
A. Krisanov
A. Medvedev
A. Kotelnikov
Yu Forester
B. Choi
etc.

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The main charm of the New - the energy of youth, freedom and live games. Games in toe, playing the classics. It all started with "Zero Object T. Novikova and I. Sotnikova, holes in the wall at the exhibition TEII in 1982 Timur Novikov loved all the new and" toe. "



If you go to the artists in their studios to talk about their works, you probably will hear the stories and myths of the time change, time "janitors and watchmen" (firemen), ie social loafers, but active creators. It should be noted, no one has left the country, except for E. Kozlova, and little has changed in their workshops - a sort of St. Petersburg eternity, where all the beautiful samomuzeefitsiruetsya. Reality blurred boundaries: art as life and life as art, philosophy of life as a holiday all expressive embodied in the works. Expressionism is largely in tune with the revolution ("Leningrad - the city of muses and three revolutions", reyvolyutsy), where it persists in the revolutionary tradition of painting.

In 1985 the article-manifesto "The process of" perestroika "in the creation of" new "Novikov, among other key words and concepts that describe the work of the union, uses the word" glow ", referring to ranneavangardnym images of bright sunlight and the intense struggle:" Maximum ambient temperature , the possibility of death hudozhika in the struggle to create a new giant of the spirit. The artist becomes the object of power.. "

Andreeva:
"Language" new ", which was formed in 1982-84 years, in the dark indefinitely .., anticipating the language of perestroika, in the sense that they are not allowed to build a really muddy. At the epicenter grows stronger social marasmus they were bright and friendly smoothly under the banner of heroic absurdity. Heroic absurdity - a special rhetorical tone, allowing to take pompous note, talking about the most unpresentable things about the old tired and used widely relevant topics, saying, idiotically (bearing in mind that the idiot in Greek - a special person living outside the norms of society with their lives) . The main feature of such pathos that it can not, for obvious reasons, to use the power. And, of course, at a time when society accepts as normal non-human behavior, idiotic heroic absurdity as a kind of foolishness is the way out, in particular, it is very common in avant-garde art of the twentieth century. "

A. Khlobystin:
"In the late 1970's nascent punk and its twin - Glamour attracted the attention of scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and cultural studies. They started talking seriously about the youth culture of cities, new urban wilderness. " This whole farce, along with a new wave of romance breaks into great art, museums, and pop culture. Parallel to these phenomena NH, starting in 1970 with youth sentimentally symbolic "shuriken" and graffiti vandalism in school notebooks, will soon become seriously interested in modern art, and found his own artistic language in the context of native traditions. As a result, no sprays saved St. Petersburg from teenage vandalism, and NH were much more cultured and literally more tenacious than their western peers, forever remaining in the 80's. "

A. Khlobystin - painter (exhibited with the "new" since 1987.), Curator, writer, publisher of informal magazines and newspapers, "the most original wriggle Brain in St. Petersburg," according to E. Andreeva. As presented here, a picture, it sends the ship "force for good" with a team of national heroes: from Gagarin to Cheburashka, a classically well-incumbent, to conquer the unexplored creative territory.

A. Kotelnikov, one of the most legendary artists of St. Petersburg (one of the most "wild" and most sophisticated of artists), deprived of many of the fear of a brush, he wrote quickly and easily history, continued the line of black humor in art.
Favorite image Kotelnikov were "doktorishki. Source ominous caricature of doctors formed the Hungarian magazines and comic books on forensic medicine, whose artistic potential was appreciated among the "new" and nekrorealistov. For free, harsh manner close to him I. Sotnikov, which is used in his painting motifs of popular culture, cars and characters from computer games, in the set depicted his favorite tree.


Boris Koshelokhov "absolutely terrific personality, decoration Saigon 1970" (according to Novikov), had a strong influence on Kotelnikov and "new" at all. He denied knowledge of a professional culture of the beautiful and the criterion of artistic quality.
A teacher used to: "Feel yourself an artist before taking the brush in his hands and:" X + Yar! "That's his phrase:" Everyone - artists all - the art "in tune with the theory of Larionov and Zdanevich.

T. Novikov:
"Leningrad differs from Moscow that there had their own expressionistic tradition. It does not reflect on the West, "New Wild", "figurason Libre" or "graffiti" of some, and, say, if a group of "Kindergarten" in Moscow repelled by Western neoekspressionizma, here we have here was an artist Koshelokhov that at the time this painting thought was his own or on their own. He did it in the 70's. A to Koshelohova were Vasmi, Shagin, Schwartz, Aref. The same, but only in a small format. And there was an outstanding artist Cherkasov, who was making abstract things. And this tradition is well kept. Exceptions, probably - it Khlobystin Kozin with Maslov that look in overseas journals. And Oleg Kotelnikov - this is a purely local phenomenon. He did not look in Western books, did not see any directories. It's - own products, so it took so long and kept. "

"Scary" paintings, Kotelnikov, and neoprimitivistskie neoekspressionistskie, in his words "simulated state of universal creative destruction, the status of that time: the restructuring, the destruction of the country. Later the style becomes less expressive, "savagery" goes, there are "a neat trend," as they called Novikov. Craving for formal games, flatness and linearity, more and more brings the end of 1980 with the aesthetics of postmodernism. The most important centers of postmodern art is the search for new beauty, carried out in the form of an ironic game with the lack of aesthetic restrictions.

More recent work Kotelnikov gain immanent balance. In the film "The Bridge", he subtly conveys the essence of Petersburg, internal and external. Immediately recognizable Anichkov bridge with horse sculptures Klodt, drawn by some flourishes, like a child. A similar combination of shades of blue rivers and green-colored marsh sky, accurately conveys the constant Petersburg Gray. Gray for St. Petersburg with a developed artistic eye is incredibly rich. In the film T. Novikova "Trinity Cathedral, the blue sky mixed with yellow and orange buildings, too, creates a cold, dank gray. Fixed, recognizable attributes of the city ("Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky" says Kotelnikov, besides also a poet and author of the catch phrase) - the dome of the cathedral and the bridge, trees without leaves. Childlike figure is justified, "New" does not knowingly grew up, not to obey any order. Even the subsequent metamorphosis into "new serious" and "New Academy" was a beautiful game.

In 1997, Kotelnikov with Medvedev, undertook the project "North-South, offering an alternative to the geopolitical axis of the East - West. The South has become a symbol of his tux, while Medvedev, respectively, the polar bear. Portrayed, these have become totemic signs in the set. Bears are patterned on the edge of the picture, under the dome of the sky, the same bear with candy wrappers "Bear in the North", rhythmically repeated as sampled techno music is gaining momentum at a time. (By Timur, the principle of "Zero-Music" - collage, manipulation of preprinted forms.)
Airships have appeared later, when Timur declared neoakademizm and A. Medvedev became a professor at the New Academy. (He was one of the few with an art education). Airships against the sky, ice, over Palace Square were written in the last few years, until his death in summer 2010

"Do not we go down to the ground, sat on the ground and not rise" and also: "Death is beautiful and just as easily as the output from moth pupae (Gregory - a poet, a friend of Kotelnikov, who wrote a lot of childlike, poluvzroslyh very funny poems. )

Almost all members of the band "Cinema" painted. Direct effect on B. Tsoi had Kotelnikov, Medvedev, Novikov (on his theory of "perekompozitsii" and sign prospects) and Keith Harring, who sent the "new" their posters. In Tsoi this story figures, battles kvadratnogolovyh, contour Men .. The same angular characters draws and A. Krisanov (bass "Cinema").

For Inala Savchenkova importantly imagination and too childish. His paintings - a story with fantastic characters, animated stop-frame. It creates absurdicheskie cartoons in collage technique. (See clip C. Kuriokhin and Pop Mechanics "). Absurdity is the gateway to a secret. Senseless situation or the situation in which a man gets, often open noumenal essence of man (the innermost heart of man ") and its relation to what exceeds his understanding.
In 1987, I. Savchenko founded the group "Engineers Arts Society and the North Pole to study film and animation.

"I write what I see, what about that hand, like Gutsevich" Cat and Mouse "emerged from the long lay at home of children's drawings. Working with the possible name of the author: "The cat young, the field does not whips, catches no mice." Often draws a few pictures on the same plot.

In the movie "Knights gallop" associative array with the "Red Cavalry" by Malevich, the same strip - an exemplary diagram of the earth. The New Testament riders on the horizon, were similar in Batishcheva, Lebanese cedar, Mauritius oak, eucalyptus .. Signs, associations, memories, lining up his story. Painting Gutsevich bright, minimalist, always warm in color, even hot. For Gutsevich like to Malevich, it is important to the primacy of color. Red Bull, which fills almost the entire field of painting, often repeated in his work and became his hallmark neoprimitivistskim sign. Angel, folding the universe on a red background of chaos, the plot of which podsmotren with frescoes HIIv Cyril's Church in Kiev, is an amazing illustration of the modern scientific theories about the evolutionary spiral development of the world. Absolute integrity of vision affects his plastic language, making it both versatile and elitist.
Vlad Gutsevich also created works of literary texts and Mail - art together with Vadim Ovchinnikov.

Expressionism as an aspect of pictorial art, has existed for a long time, with a tendency to simplification, based on folk art as a "true" and "humanity." T. Novikov: Russian Art in the highest manifestation - the triumph of good ideas. Maybe youth makes expanded the traditional formula of "good" and "joy." The image of joy, according to the "New", the best method of expressing the idea of ​​goodness.