Video report of three contemporary artists from St. Petersburg

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The exhibition, held in the first month of spring 2011, in the halls of St. Petersburg Union of Artists Exhibition Centre (Bolshaya Morskaya, 38) "On the sunny side" brought together 18 artists working in a realistic direction.

Principle, mainly laid down in a framework of this exhibition, was the selection of works by its coloring seemed anticipant colors, smells and sounds of summer, which will soon gush on his head weary of winter, the city dweller. But also in the aesthetic concept of the exhibition was a noticeable preference to those creations of artists, dominated by the color perception of the world, welcoming life. Some of the artists tend to translate the world through the prism of his own creative personality, while others try to adjust their creative style, his soulful harmony under one or another string of nature.
We make a brief comment about the pictures shown in this exhibition.

Vladimir Ezhakov, presenting the work of the portrait genre, solves the problem of pictorial texture, border both with modern trends in an expressive, broad strokes, and with the manner of old masters, "immersed" in the space of the picture, seeking the only correct line of the real world and the divine. Arise occasionally flashes of color suddenly goes out, disappearing in a transparent glaze, and force the viewer's eye to work, looking for a general whirlwind smear those mysterious pockets of peace that are so overdue for us at the paintings of Titian, Veronese and Rembrandt. In works such as "Tango", "Dance of Love", "Theatre" artist, taking as basis the motives of reality, is paying as much attention to creative self-reflection. That's it - a sort of reconsideration of his inspired moments - helps you find an artist that balance between their inner world and the kind that lead to a more finished sketch plan - a painting.

A series of papers Alexei Kalinin compares favorably with many realistic paintings of the exhibition, thanks to the artist's ability to thoroughly investigate the nature. Whether it's park theme, the promenade, or a portrait, he picks for each is peculiar to him perspective and mood, as if adjusting to it. His perfectionist, one might say, a clever mind, finds at the same time, the model that share the freedom, looseness, which helps the artist to capture it something inconspicuous, escapes from the everyday sight. Found true emotional order Kalinin for a particular topic ("Jack", "Christel", "Academic garden") miraculously helps rather than hinder the improvement of artistic skills.

In many cases it is possible to notice the opposite. When an artist, driven and inspired, and some creative instinct, suddenly still smacks of commercial profitability, and already seemed to purposely "comes on the throat of his former originally beautiful song.

Absolutely gorgeous illusions of reality seem watercolor work Helena Bazanova. Her creative credo - do not miss this momentary, minor at first glance. Nature in her creative interpretation - that streak on the leaf, flower and fruit of the squat on the butterfly, and a drawing of a tree. Such attention to detail still has nothing to do with fotografizmom and naturalistic. "Dummy", from the time of Apelles (Greek painter 4. BC) became a sign of the artist's skill in the art Bazanova spirited, full of life. How is this achieved? Watercolors, so whimsical and capricious, in the hands of the artist becomes a "matter in motion, obeying some kind of strong-willed gesture, if not an act - implementing the frozen nature (" Still Life "in the first. C fr.: Dead nature) live. Watercolor performed Bazanova able to find similar means of expression with oil painting. Creating his still lifes are often in large formats, Bazanova not only reveals the possibility of watercolors, but always arrange some intrigue for looking at this as a private art. On heavy with ripeness, "nest" of sunflowers sat bee nalivshiesya grenades cracked from its completeness and showed the fragility of their skin, a yellow pear sat yellow butterfly-limonnitsa Fallen ... if just lepestochek flower jumped out among all the luxury of autumn gifts crooked nail - all are components of the poetics of creativity Bazanova. Penetration of animate and inanimate nature in still life painter - this is the same metaphysics interpenetration raznosuschnogo as "watercolor" - "element of water and paint (so-called volume theoretical article Bazanova artist, explains the basics of the technique)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ725rd0qzY

A unity of artistic concepts that arises when viewing the exhibition "On the sunny side, roll the creative attitudes, approaches, attitude, suddenly, something goes astray the appearance of some random names. Perhaps the abstract paintings of Valery Tabulinskogo might sound in the solo exhibition dedicated to the art or Russian avant-garde early. the third millennium, but here ... they evoke a sense of absolute bewilderment. Decorative allusions to the primitivism of Chagall and Kandinsky abstract, on a plan curator Peter Krivenko, were not as "fit" as "unsubscribe". The second word, despite the apparent desire of an artist to support the other, still bears a large share of irony and of itself does not carry anything in common with the true aspirations of any self-respecting artist. So most likely, the appearance of works Tabulinskogo would require a different context, as well as quite similar to kitsch paintings professional painters Lyapkalo B. and O. Ponomarenko (in which there is no doubt, looking at the vast panorama of the quality provided to do their job). These two artists, who have for themselves and school, and skills, apply them in a surprising manner. His deliberately nostalgic childhood motifs of (O. Ponomarenko) or erotically vulgar, cereals women, apparently, even your favorite (V. Lyapkalo) artists like look for his next victim from the crowd, who appreciate their talents, and buy, finally, a pleasant picture. Little sincerity, artless skill, aimed at the creative process itself, rather than pandering to mass taste and today's demand.

Yet even a few seen at an exhibition worthy of works worth it to visit it.

Anastasia Bezgubova (Shklyaeva)