At the height of the season came newsmaker mistress galleries with outside Moscow Rublyovka Natalia Kournikova, who bought the most expensive charity auction lot in St. Petersburg, where the paintings were selling works of local show-stars and politicians. Therefore, the main attraction for the media on the opening day "of our artists' canvas was Vladimir Putin, and not the mysterious Dima, whose name is an alias without a name was on the invitation. (If desired, put the accent on the last syllable: so pronounced in Paris, where the artist lived the last decade.) Of course, first arrived ritual ascent to the top floor, where the proud solitude (well, and what can be placed next?) Attains shimmering beads "pattern on the frosted window, but quickly descended to Dima. New name for Moscow, though not bad known in Europe only at first provoked condescending curiosity: in actual fact the artist was not merely good, but very good.
I must say, Dima is exposed for twenty years, with "House concert in Moscow moved up in the German and Dutch galleries, museums and later. In 1995, his paintings showed the Russian Museum and the Museum of Architecture, but Muscovites managed to forget them. On the other hand, in a moment of crisis is the most prosperous metropolitan gallery of ancient art to follow the advice: "Most Turn style. And Dima - a phenomenon in our art-landscape unusual. But most importantly, it is truly a phenomenon. In exactly the formula: "Talent - the only news that is always new."
However, no great surprises in the pictures you will not see. Everyday household items: cups, bottles, chairs, The simple food. From the arsenal of the artist - pencils, sometimes looked like a sky-scrapers. Lonely letter soars on canvas, reminiscent of the blue sky, as if calling to escape outside the apartment, where there is a quiet life of all these things. Few can be seen from the window: a pattern tree branches, passing cars, luminous windows or flaming roofs of neighboring houses. Sometimes the buildings are constructed in a ticker or a crowd, as if gathered for a chat.
However, as every great artist, it does not matter what is shown how a particular case pushed to the canvas. It is important - as. And this is really surprising, despite the external "ordinariness" motif. Here recall Cezanne, Morandi, and Soutine. And Paul Klee, who, on Tarkovsky, "sitting alone in a alley with colored pencils, and our Vladimir Yakovlev ... Boiling kettle in different colors, but with a single "profile" are arranged in a cycle, recalling a series of Russian avant-garde, such as "handbags" Rozanova. Although Dima own style, not very similar to the famous "predecessors." And above all, his own destiny, not to analyze his work with the usual positions. After all, the artist really did not study anywhere - only worked at home. Carefully perform the job, but after the teacher had done everything else ... True, who grew up in a family art Rakitin, with a childhood surrounded by painting, whether it be albums or exhibition, Dima can not be called a man without education. It is rare these days an example of "home education" to which we all know only by hearsay, as a daily go through the process of social adaptation.
It is this process (we will not discuss his injury and favor) escape artist Dmitry Rakitin, is one of those people who are euphemistically termed "not all". In other words, it is our, Russian - he was born and lived the first 25 years in Moscow - "Rain Man" (yes, we are talking about the great role of Dustin Hoffman). When you try to understand how to relate to the artist "nasmotrennost" and "special" suspending him, freed from the hustle and complex view of the world, willy-nilly get up in deadlock. Someone art denies factor "learning", saying: "Genius!" Others, however, explains how a lot of attention meant relatives noticed urge to draw and did everything in order to develop the capacity of the child, who from childhood has left a ... Of course, Dima in his own way communicates with the outside world, where there is a street in the wilderness, and museums, but much stronger than it is rooted in the domestic space, measured with the change of seasons, where the stakes are Christmas or Easter, with a simple "baseline" values. Only if razyat this chain of relationships, we can realize the importance of its smallest level.
Artist with a piercing directly, but I think reaching up to the perception of how things work from day to day life is busy hard work - painting. Not that what is taught in institutions, but remembers its fundamental principle. "Through such as Dima, painting a self-fulfilling with the comprehensiveness and clarity that are needed to confront the modern decline of its language" - writes in the catalog known critic Helen Murin.
A complex color, intense combination of colors, open texture of the canvas, which "breathes", a special arhitektonichnost forms. We are witnessing their growth, and everyday items transformed into a formula of life. It is difficult to say that it affects more - subtlety of color, an incredibly keen sense of color, built seemingly uncomplicated composition (particularly stresses its asymmetry and fragmentation). Or the depth of these paintings, for which felt the sincerity and vulnerability, is extremely rare among professionals. Often they are inherent to the painters "naive". But in this category Dima does not fit, if not suitable under the current industry definition of "art brut" (the art of "gross" or "raw" can be translated differently, but we are not talking about the artists-primitives). By the way, Vasily Rakitin, father of Dima, said that his work had come to watch and director of the Paris Museum "brutal" art. But did not find them appropriate for its collections: the author stands behind this centuries-old culture.
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17.02.2009, 16:29
"Dima" gallery "Our artists'
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