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"Alexander Vedernikov. Works on Paper"

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Alexander Vedernikov Roza Azora Gallery
 
In Roza Azora Gallery opened the exhibition "Alexander Vedernikov. Works on Paper", made a friendly gallery of "The Ark". The first Moscow exhibition of Leningrad artists visited Anna TOLSTOV.

Alexander Vedernikov (1898-1975) was, as they say, a typical representative of what nebulous denoted by the term "Leningrad school." Of the art, which silently and at first very quietly blossomed in Leningrad of the 1920s and 1930s. Refined, or rather a "cultural" as it called itself, as oriented to the picturesque and graphic culture, the French, mainly, Fauvism, and especially Albert Marquet, whose landscape scheme and the mood so well lay on the nature of Leningrad. So-called "silent art", the landscape in the way of seeing the world and restrained expressionist temperament that does not fit with the high-profile defeat, which is regularly exposed to for twenty years, beginning with the assassination of Kirov, and to complete the "Leningrad affair".

Vladimir Lebedev, Vyacheslav Pakulin, Nicholas Tyrsa, Vladimir Konashevich, Nikolai Lapshin, Vladimir Grinberg, Alexander Rusakov, Alex Assumption - Alexander Vedernikov was out of this series. From the fraction of landscape, "markistov" as they dubbed it as a joke for the love of Mark, but then became synonymous with playful nickname is fraught with all sorts of troubles label "formalist." He was a "Circle of Artists", worked in the famous experimental lithographic workshop at LOSH. His fate has developed relatively well: bowed his name is not in the newspaper "Pravda", as the names of "artists poorest dauber," Lebedev and Konashevich, his work did not destroy the Union of Artists, both destroyed pakulinskie things. Perhaps because he was not such a great master like Lebedev and Pakulin. Still, was a master, and this is easily seen on the show.

It consists of works of the late 1950s - early 1970s. This is mainly autolithographies, however, limited edition, more than a dozen prints from stone Vedernikov did, but there are also watercolors. One half of landscapes, still lifes and nudes - a brownish-gray scale, as if here were cast from water and air paintings Marche in the gray haze of black barges go down the Neva and the white steamers on the Volga, chubby naked dissolve and melt the interiors. The other half, where more colors, tailored on the patterns of Matisse and Dufy, just from the windows instead of Tangier, overlooking the Neva River for the summer garden and Griboedov, and instead of racing at Ascot and promenades of Nice - volleyball court and in the nearby football stadium Lenin. In these nemudrenyh, unprincipled and petty, as one would say in "Pravda", the plots in "just because" landscapes and still lifes of vases philistine poured a strange sensation of infinite happiness, and even in the dull gray and lead the Leningrad has a foretaste of the sun and light. Maybe happiness is born of absolute freedom, not limited by anything except its own artistic features. Vedernikov, as always, at least since the early 1930s, and painted, just after 1958 began the first of his little show. And, perhaps, after the XX Congress of this schedule appeared greetings from Leningrad Leningrad thaw frostbitten not 1934, 1937, 1942, 1946 and other winter for years. As the air-solar "just so" stories of Victor Golyavkina seemed greetings from Harms and oberiutov.


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