Leonid juice Zimmerli

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 The Museum opened Zimmerli
exhibition of one of the veterans
Russian nonconformism
Lenin gazes thoughtfully at
walking man fashioned
in the style of Giacometti. Stalin
Hitler enthusiastically forge something
iron, took up arms against the earth
ball. Huge sperm
the size of a dinosaur somewhere
insistently on his way. Two
founder, Marx and Mickey
Mouse, are inaudible alien ear dialogue. Claude Monet felt sick to his
the famous bridge over the water lilies.
Yes, no one confused this caustic, while the cold-blooded
artist-mocker. Leonid Sokov, crossed a dollar sign
proletarian hammer, won a large retrospective exhibition in
Zimmerli Museum in New Brunswick (New Jersey). The first in a long career
this artist museum exhibition in the United States "Leonid Sokov:
Ironic objects »(Leonid Sokov: Ironic Objects) was opened on 26 January and
will run until 14 July. The exhibition presents 80
works created them from the beginning of the 60's to the present.

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The existing under the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University,
although some distance from New York, the main museum mecca
America - the address for the exhibition Sokova more than correct. Exactly
It contains the world's largest collection of works by Soviet artists
nonconformists, the basis of which was the famous collection of art patron
Norton Dodge, who died last year. By the way, about
half exhibits juice - from the "silos" of the museum Zimmerly.
The rest are private collectors and the artist himself.
Juice deserves respect, if only because it never gave
fashion trends - said, "Voice of America" ​​exhibition curator Julia
Tulovskii. - To him firmly rooted mask ironic simpleton
draws inspiration from urban folklore, rough language
street art areal Julia Tulovskii, curator of the exhibition "Juice
deserves respect, if only because it never yielded fashionable
trends - said, "Voice of America" ​​exhibition curator Julia Tulovskii. -
To him firmly rooted mask ironic simpleton, who draws
inspiration from urban folklore, rough language of the street, areal
art. It is closely linked with the grassroots culture, the principles of which
formulated by Bakhtin (Mikhail Bakhtin - Russian philosopher and
scholar, researcher folk culture. - OS). One
of the legendary pioneers of social art, juices, and now does not change its
the vision. "
Leonid Juice was born in 1941 in Kalinin (now Tver)
region. In 1969 he graduated from the Moscow Higher School of
Industry named after Stroganov. In 1980, he emigrated to
United States and settled in New York, where he lives to this day.
"For many years, Juice uses the form of naive art
to create a multilayered and sophisticated within the meaning of the work, - said
Zimmerli Museum Director Susan Delehanti. - We are proud to
follow his impressive career, and in the context of the whole
Soviet nonconformist art of the Cold War. "
Last summer exhibition Sokova, presenting 120 works
show up at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Museum
Zimmerli, as clarified Tulovskii presented to the Moscow exhibition
a significant number of jobs. These two events in Moscow and New
Brunswick, timed publish the extensive pictorial
monograph on the work of juices with essays by Andrei Erofeev, Julia Tulovskii,
Boris Groys and notes about the artist soc-art. The book,
short title «Sokov» released by German publisher Kerber
English.
"Lenin, Stalin, Mickey Mouse, Marilyn Monroe - Juice is not passed any
one main icons of the 20th century - Yulia Tulovskii. - He
Captures the chief manifestations of absurdity of popular culture, as well as
history and politics. He was interested in a broad cultural context, as
low and high, both Soviet and American. "
Zimmerli exhibition center was a large installation "Shadows
Sculpture of the 20th Century, "which he created for the Russian pavilion at the
Venice Biennale 2001. Hundred miniature replicas of famous
sculptures of artists such as Alexander Calder and Constantin Brancusi,
placed in a brightly lit rotating stand-pedestal. As the
traffic figures cast huge shadows on the walls of the hall. After
Venice this installation was shown only in the Danish town
Odense.
"Today you do not close in the social art?" - Asked the reporter
"Voice of America" ​​by Leonid juices.
Many believe that the social art is over, because we have no basis
social realism - the Soviet Union. But the social art is alive, still alive
supply its absurdity. Unfortunately, many Americans in my things not
understand. First of all, do not read the cultural codes, which I
repulsive. They do not understand, for example, the values ​​of the figure of Stalin as
the biggest myth of all post-Soviet Leonid Sokov
nonconformist artists "Sots Art - vremennnoe phenomenon - answered
artist. - This does not mean that the poor thing. Many consider it
political art, but it is not. It is above all the destruction of
social realism, with no formal over it abused with
by the irony of its principles and techniques in a different context. Many
believe that the social art is over, because we have no basis of socialist realism -
The Soviet Union. But the social art is alive, still alive, feeding it absurd.
Unfortunately, many Americans in my things not understood. First of all,
do not read the cultural codes, which I repel. They do not
understand, for example, the values ​​of the figure of Stalin as the greatest myth
in the former Soviet space. "
"Juice for me, a person of my generation, my family, said the" Voice
America "artist Vitaly Komar, one of the many guests
vernissage. - We were at the Stroganov, with its finished, in 70 -
s became part of the movement a social art, which teetered between pop
art and a conceptualism. In this exhibition, all familiar to me, all
close, all native. They say that social art is dead. This is incorrect. Yes, the Soviet
great-power official context replaced by religious and criminal, but the soc-
Art was, in fact, it has spread to the whole cultural context
that is made to them in quotes. At the same time these works Sokova wider framework
because it uses dadaist concept, laid back Marcel
Duchamp, and the splint. Today, the reputation of the Russian artist can not
not seen in the West is a very unpleasant Russian
political climate, and our prestige continues to stay positive,
first of all, to artists such as Leonid Juice. "
But Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, also came to the opening, flatly
declined to comment on the exhibition, which is likely to be considered a
kind of conceptual statement.
"Juice - one of the key figures of his generation, along with Kabakov
Makarevich, Orlov, Komar and Melamid - said "The Voice
America "Jane Sharp, a professor at Rutgers University, an expert on
Russian avant-garde and non-conformism. - I love it for the humor and art
irony, which is deceptively simple. Average American is
rather difficult to "see through" the message of the artist in all of its
depth. We need some time and effort to get to know Russian
culture and the importance of such, for example, figures such as Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev.
Social art as a direction firmly taken its place in Russian history
art. The fact that today make juices and his colleagues should not be
forced to squeeze into the framework of social art. They develop their
Creativity continues in some new dimensions. "
Jane Sharp expressed surprise that two of the largest specialized
Museum of New York, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Museum
Guggenheim deliberately ignore creative juices and his associates,
do not give them enough attention.
Zimmerli Art Museum was founded in 1966 and is
one of the largest university museums in the United States. His constant
The collection consists of more than 60 thousand items relating to different
epochs - from antiquity to the present. Collection of Russian
nonconformism Norton Dodge consists of approximately 20,000 works
Thousands of artists, created between 1956 and 1986.