Prevents to live in Paris "Ark"

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Exhibition"interferes Paris live"in the gallery of "The Ark"

13.05.2011

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To breathe the air of Paris Montmartre and other neighborhoods dreamed almost every Russian artist of the twentieth century, but not everyone is able to fulfill this dream. "Interferes live Paris" - a line from a popular song by the bard Yuri Kukina gave the name of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Gallery "Ark". The exhibition - painting and graphic artists of the two countries speak the same "artistic language". French and Russian. Those for whom Paris has remained a "phantom pain" - and our contemporaries, living in a "Europe without borders". They say "News of Culture".
 
Paris has always inspired, fascinated, but some love to the capital and culture of France - a life, indeed, complicated. Antonin Sofronov, member of the group of artists, "Thirteen" free from the stereotypes of art lovers as a Russian Marches. But to see her work could be developed in workshops and exhibitions on the underground. Soviet critics accused her of formalism and the worship of the West. Inflexible and had inspired to make photo retouching. In this exhibition, paintings Sofronova hang next to works by the artist to whom she dedicates poems, all his creativity.

"This work in 1931" Smoke MOGESa "and it is obvious the influence of French painting, and specifically the Marche - says the exhibition's curator Igor Chuvilin. - And it is a portrait of her daughter with a black bow in 1932.

Close friend Sofronova artist Mikhail Sokolov in the middle of the 30's also ranked as a formalist. He took the hard way: starvation, disease, camps, which draw not stopped. These paintings are made after the liberation, they - the result of a long search for his style. In different years, Sokolov and turned to Impressionism, and Fauvism.

"This is not imitation, imitation is not absolute has its own style of Sokolov, who, nevertheless, clearly refers to the French roots" - says Igor Chuvilin.

Task to compare artists from the organizers of the exhibition and did not arise. Rather, it wanted to show how intertwined their creativity and destiny.

That is the work of artist-primitivist Henri Rousseau. He wrote it in 1906. Next picture, taken at the end of the twentieth century, the Ural artist Zinaida Babin. She began to draw even in old age and, just as Henri Rousseau had no special education.

Adjacent to these paintings - the work of contemporary artist Irene Zatulovskaya. With Rousseau and Babineau it combines distinctive architectural style. In the love of Paris Zatulovskaya recognized on sheets of iron and wooden boards.

"Different images and symbols come to mind, for example here is the little black dress - it's also a symbol of Paris and the Eiffel Tower of course, too," - says the artist.

Work of another contemporary artist Olga Orlova Pluzhnikov, as presented in its original format - in a notebook.

"This is the first artist's impression of nature, from a meeting with the city to meet with the atmosphere of this city and not just of its streets, but also some cafes and Interiors" - says the exhibition curator Sergei Safonov.

Paintings in this exhibition are presented without captions. In the audience only a list of artists, just try to guess who is who. Confused and really easy. Soviet ladies are so similar to fashionable Parisians. A Russian landscapes like a brush made of French impressionists.

Gallery of "The Ark" - http://www.kovcheg-art.ru/

127434 Moscow, Russia. Nemchinov, 12

Curators:
Sergey Safonov
Igor Chuvilin

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