In London, an exhibition of Rodchenko

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in London opened an exhibition of Rodchenko

In London gallery Art Sensus Jan. 21 opened a large-scale exhibition of works by Alexander Rodchenko and his contemporaries, according to the website gallery. The exhibition, entitled "Rodchenko and his circle" represented nearly a thousand photographs, including more than 200 works by Rodchenko himself from private collections, never before exhibited.
The central theme of the exhibition, which will run until March 19 - the early stages of establishment of Soviet power. In addition to works by Rodchenko exhibition can also see about 750 pictures Naum Granovsky, Seeds Fridlyand, Max Alpert, Evgeny Khaldei, George Selma, and others.

As told RIA Novosti news agency co-owner of the American Stock Tosca Zelda Cheatle, these pictures belong to the fund, which recently closed. Almost all of them for sale.

In addition to photographs of Rodchenko on Soviet reality, part of the exhibition are photographs of his relatives and friends. Among other things, the exhibition presents, for example, portraits of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip and Lili Brik, Rodchenko's wife, the artist Varvara Stepanova, the director Vitaly Pearl and others.

Alexander Rodchenko - one of the main "export" the Russian photographers - was one of the pioneers of constructivism. He is considered a harbinger of graphic design, not only in the USSR, but in the world. In addition to photography and design, Rodchenko was engaged in painting.

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as Alexander Rodchenko, Russian fotoavangard glorified all over the world
 
Today the name of Rodchenko, almost synonymous with the Soviet photos 20-30-ies. His works are in major museums around the world. His archive is so great that the scanning of negatives, which conducted the Moscow House of Photography, took 4 years. Nov. 23 Alexander Mikhailovich would have turned 115 years old. And in December, will be a half-century, as it is no longer with us. These two dates in conjunction with the opening of Arena his personal exhibition "Photography - Art," organized by MDP, with the participation Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, Mayakovsky Museum, galleries Alex Lachman. In these days of out of print monograph Rodchenko with the same title, prepared as part of the publishing program of Interros, together with the MDP and humanitarian projects Ivan Polyakov.

Even someone who knows nothing about Rodchenko, owe him their view of the world. Famous sharp angles of his photographs bear the energy of a new vision. And as he said once, "each of seeing a new birth to the revolution." We all enjoy the fruits of the revolution "seen", which made the artist along with his colleagues on the "Lef" and later of the "October". This revolution began not in the 20 years, but much earlier. Then, when in 1916, Rodchenko was involved in a futuristic exhibition titled "Shop": "At this time I went in the winter and summer, autumn tattered coat and cap. He lived in a room behind the stove in the kitchen, fenced off with plywood. I'm hungry. But I despised bourgeoisie. despised her favorite art: the Union of Russian artists, aesthetes of the art world. I came close, such as unsecured Malevich, Tatlin and other artists. (...) We are not accountants and clerks of the bourgeoisie. We were the inventors and remake the world in way. We do not chewed nature, like cows chewing gum on his canvases. We created a new concept. We - not izobrazhateli and innovators. "

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This was written in 1936, when behind him had already been hounding by the press. Then his photos of the young trumpeter, shot from the lower angle, wrote: "Is it in this rough beast node muscles and clumsy way a person can be found alive, joyful, open face of the younger generation of communists?" Critics saw red. And Rodchenko was expelled and his fellow students from "October". Then there were shooting on the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. "I have taken the White Sea-Baltic Canal, the name of Comrade Stalin in 2000 the number of images handled almost all the Soviet press," - he said once. But his speech at the debate in 1936 titled "Rebuilding the artist" he is forced to complete the promise of "making things, in which the photographic language would serve as a fully socialist realism." Promises promises, but he did not give up. He said boxers, he could take a punch.

In fact, Rodchenko was one of the last of the Mohicans Russian avant-garde. He was survived by his friend of Mayakovsky. And he made his post-mortem photograph of the house. He managed to complete the thing for which was raised when a revolt of the poets, "Gorlanov, the ringleaders." He managed to bring the opening of the avant-garde in the thick of life.

His works appear in the mainstream of artistic exploration of the Constructivists. He draws the Soviet pavilion for the exhibition of 1925 in Paris. Come up with costumes, scenery and even a folding furniture and equipment for transforming plays "Bug" and "Inga". He works as an artist on the films "Moscow in October," "Journalist," "Doll with millions," "Albidum. He makes a montage for Mayakovsky's poem "about it." He works as a book designer and advertiser. The famous advertising "Nowhere except in Mosselprome" framed Rodchenko. He teaches at the Higher Artistic-Technical Institute (VHUTEIN). But gradually, his main love and passion is photography.

Sometimes it seems that she saved him. Leader and father of all nations interested in the arts more important - the literature and cinema. A photograph no one took seriously. Rodchenko was dismayed to write: "The photo is so technically simple and fast, so necessary as applied to science, life and technology that it has, as such, is very close and accessible, not considered worthy of a prophet." He became its prophet. Prophet art, which for the Arts and was not considered.

He, who first took the camera for artistic experiment, refers to the photo essay. Myself running, massive genre, which is considered to be in pictures with something inferior. " It was necessary to have the vigilance of an amazing, artistic flair, the higher test democracy to guess: "But it is applied and the lowest in the force of competition newspapers and magazines, by virtue of living and need a job when you need to remove at all costs, if any illumination and point of view, and has done a revolution in photography. " Recognized as an artist and designer, he consciously becomes a laborer visual revolution. Removes plants, work the ambulance, issue papers, far LPH ...

Rodchenko was fond of reportage photography tremendously. His wife, Varvara Stepanova told that Sukharevka Rodchenko made a photograph of her and her daughter ... do not know them. As far as he was desperate man can be judged according to the memoirs reporter Shimanskii. He witnessed the shooting competition at the racetrack: "Rodchenko took his" jumps "in this perspective. He lay on the edge of the racing track, and there was shooting. And those who were nearby, said that the horse should never attack the person. She does not rely .

However, some activities photojournalist was far from pathos. Revealing letter which he wrote in August 1930 to his wife from kinoekspeditsii: "Dear Barbarian! Started quite difficult. Of all the equipment is working properly a" Watering. "(...)" Today, a tour of rosin-turpentine factory. ... The plant operates round the clock and whistles, as the steamer on the Volga River, and around a pine tree. They say the forest is to the north, wolves and bears. We Remove the case. The peasant zaarendovana old nag Manka. loaded WHO equipment, DSLRs, and other junk, and we took turns sit down, too. The rest march on foot. Also with us are running two dogs, each day is different, but run to the end and come back with us again. During the shooting get underfoot all the time fit into the frame. I shoot a lot and sad about you. "

As Karamzin opened an ancient history, so Rodchenko opened to spectators present. "Appreciate all the present and the present," - he called. He himself was not only that contained in the ideal order their own negatives, prints and paper. It actually saves the photo archive Sovkino, which was flooded in the basement. Rodchenko bought him for 6 rubles and drag oneself along home wet, dirty pictures.

However, in this Rodchenko was most interested in the signs of the future. He believed that man can create the perfect reasonable world. Moreover, he managed to become an artist, a spectacular and relevance in the twenty-first century. Exhibition at the Manege and published for the anniversary of the monograph not only show the breadth of interests of Rodchenko. They actually offer it as a multimedia artist. Rodchenko used for the experiment did not separate vygorazhivaniya delyanochki photos. In contrast, functionality and availability had to make it a universal language, which is useful for the book and film, and advertising. His work is always part of the series, or, in the present - of the project. On the other hand, photography, graphic arts, cinema in these projects for the artist became equally important media. Therefore, the buzzword "multimedia" as applied to Rodchenko does not seem a stretch. Rather, a statement of his incredible intuition.

Even someone who knows a lot about Rodchenko, the exhibition and the book can meet with an unfamiliar artist. For example, after seeing his photographs of productions of the Bolshoi Theatre in 1937. They would be the envy pictorialists. Or - a series of "Circus," which was preparing for the June issue of 1941 magazine USSR in Construction. " The image of a stern Constructivist, which were minted: "Consciousness, Experience, purpose, DESIGN, engineering and math - these brothers of Contemporary Art" - bad fit in with the image of a man with a self-portrait Professional ENG ... clown makeup on his face. By the way, remembers her daughter Varvara Rodchenko, the father loved to amuse guests tricks. Among the top was this: the landlord put them on his bald head plate - and a plate as if glued. Rodchenko was pacing the room with her on the head to the delight of kids. On the other hand, serious uncle who can lie down in front of the audience under his feet a pioneer for the desired angle shot, should have, probably, and courage of a clown.

The main focus, however, that the opening of Rodchenko, we still have. To a little closer to understanding this enormous figure of Russian twentieth-century's worth remembering that among the most important events of life in the brilliant essay, "Black and white," he called childish impression of a ventriloquist performances in the theater, the shock of the planetarium, which is "made to look more and look fantastic reality, or real fantasy "and a meeting with a photograph. In all three things he managed to find a miracle.

Love to feature it looked like the Americans with their cult selfmademan. Incidentally, he believed that "a person who has organized his life, work and himself, is a contemporary artist." But this rationalist could save a lifetime romantic dream of his youth: "I prefer to see ordinary things extraordinarily. This is an idea I've realized." And imagine, he kept his word.

Zhanna Vasilieva