Museum Repin "Penates" is an exhibition of 50-60s. zasl.hud. RF N.Kovaleva

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Estate Museum Repin " Penates " and curator of the exhibition gallery " Owl Art" invite you to the exhibition " Komarovskaya legend ".
The exhibition presents works of 50 -60- ies of XX century honored . Artist of Russia Nikolai Kovalyov .

Alexander Borovsky . The exhibition " Komarovskaya legend" - works 1950 - early 60 -ies. artist Nikolai Kovalyov .

C how strange feeling I peered in gouache Nikolai Kovalyov " Interior with a model sailboat " ... Oh my God , this is the sailboat ! Mom led me to the cottage Shishmaryov and I stared longingly watches this model made quite seriously, with the cannon , and even tackles were missed the mark seems to tar. God, this is it, happiness , possess a sailboat ! More from life and can not claim ! Anything else I did not notice any works Lapshin and Lebedev on the walls , no hostess cottages , pretty strict middle-aged ladies with power- mocking demeanor did not give favors to others , including the boy came in mandatory for a decent family sailor . I did not notice her son , ran it for a bike, then for a tennis racket : between us was unbridgeable chasm age - Boris Vlasov was fifteen years older than me. Two decades later, I made friends with Tatiana Vladimirovna Shishmareva , the very strict , almost pogruznevshy lady with thoroughbred profile , with slicked-back hair, somewhat reminiscent of late Akhmatova pores (also , incidentally, Komarovskaya nuns ) . TV asked me for a sad occasion: it was necessary to write the text of the first directory , alas, posthumous exhibition of Boris .

 Nikolai Kovalyov today - probably the last representative Komarovskaya culture , at least , its artistic component. It so happened that in the early fifties holiday villages around Moscow and Leningrad , Stalin conceived as a " carrot" for the outstanding representatives of Soviet science ( the "stick" was meant : the concentration of academics easier to control ) , thaw temperature was much higher than for the country as overall : frondirovali academics themselves , let alone the children and say nothing. In Komarovo (however, without a word about the thaw and other socio- political moments - just the air of freedom , " vernal air " by Akhmatova was here naturally ) somehow by itself formed a small circle of artists, at some stage, impacting development of Leningrad graphic culture . It included T.Shishmareva , V.Matyuh , B.Vlasov , A.Skolozubov , N.Kovalev ... Senior ( must be added to it B.Vlasova father , Vasily Vlasov Adrianovich ) , has undergone a lot in his lifetime , has retained artistic independence , interest in European art culture , the memory of his teachers , especially VVLebedev . Younger has a sharp sense of modernity . Recently, at the exhibition "The Soviet neorealism " at the Institute Repin ( of graduate and undergraduate students in 1950 and early 60s . ) Could learn the schedule of these young " komarovtsev " according to this new feeling : in the people , habits , stories. No stiffness, normativity ! Do not fight with the canon of socialist realism , but simply fairness perception! In those days it was an expensive cost . As, however, and today. In short, this exhibition - ommazhny gesture toward Komarov and his creative time youth : work mainly belong to the 1950s . They unity finds time and place - the years of creative youth, with your circle of friends searching for a happy balance between canon grafizma Leningrad ( some generalized sleek , impeccably aligned in generalized linear picturesque style) and the challenges of modern times, and the happy land, which is connected with and these searches , and, indeed, life ( generalized Komarovo : Terjoki , Kellomyaki , Kuokkala ) . Drawings and gouaches N.Kovaleva very characteristic for a generation , it seems, the latter, who took over his shoulders tradition Leningrad grafizma : Building and observations here are unthinkable without each other , getting used to the full-scale situation implies searching own intonation. Kovalev these years she rather melancholic . And , most importantly, gouaches those years there is a special " Washed " vision : the ability to escape from mediations , stay with full-scale motif of " one on one ".

Alexander Borovsky


The exhibition runs from 30 November 2013 -15 January 2014

Vernissage will take place November 30, 2013 at 17-00 in the halls of the Museum-Estate Repin " Penates " at:
St. Petersburg , pos. Repino Seaside highway, 411

For more complete information and a catalog of the exhibition can be found here :
http://sova-art.com/exibitions/futur...alyov_Exhibit/