The owner of an art gallery "Our artists Natalia Kournikova - about art and not only

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December 22, 2009 - March 1, 2010
The exhibition features paintings N. Krymov, N. Stipa, R. Falk, M. Sokolov and other artists, as well as graphics and M. Dobuzhinsky Tarkhova. A separate room is devoted to creative artists of the sixties.
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N. Tyrsa Wildflowers and mushrooms
1930th. Oil on canvas. 90,5 x66

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From site ARTinvestment.RU - (20.03.2010)
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Today, on March 20 in Gallery "Our artists" presents "Parizhachi" (the exhibition's title refers to the novel by J. Zdanevich, written in 1923-1926. - AI.). The exhibition on the theme "Paris eyes of Russian artists in the first half of the twentieth century." Its core will make the work of artists from Russia in the first wave of emigration. The exhibition brings together more than 60 works known painters and graphic artists - Yuri Annenkov, M. Vasilyeva, BA Grigoryev, Dobuzhinsky, KA Korovin, A. Lansky, Marievna, N. Puni, Z. Serebriakova, D. Stelletskii IV, K. Somov, L. Syurvazha, H. Soutine, N. Tarkhov, R. Falk, P. Chelishchev, S. Sharshunov, Chagall and others.
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May 30, 2010 - July 20, 2010

Alexander Zavolokin everyone knew who in the early 2000's in some way been connected with the artistic process, all those who participated in the exhibitions, curators, gallery owners, museum workers, artists, art critics. Alexander Zavolokin for several years worked in the Ministry of Culture of Russia in the post of deputy head of contemporary art of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography. Thanks to his energy in the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art took place, he many years of his life and work put into the work of the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Love and serve the arts could not ignore his private life. Even the

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those who knew the collector in Alexandra Zavolokin, and there were not too many among a wide circle of his acquaintances, poorly represents the real extent of his hobbies. Now, two years after the sudden departure A. Zavolokin of life, our gallery is the audience of approximately 120 works of graphic art from the collection of Alexandra and Alexandra Zavolokin. The idea of the exhibition is to show the handwriting of the collector, his taste and sense of time. Before the eyes of the spectators appear drawings, sketches of sets and costumes, bookplates and book illustrations mainly 1920-1930-ies Lev Bruni, Basil Vatagina Alexander Vedernikov, Vera Ermolaeva, Vladimir Konashevych, Nicholas Kupreyanova, Boris Kustodiev, Alexander Labasa, Vladimir Lebedev, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Alexei Pakhomov, Alexandra Platunovoy, Vera Pestel, Ivan Puni, Sergei Romanovich, Mikhail Sokolov, Pavel Sokolov-rock, Antonina Sofronova, Faith Tabor, Artur Fonvizin, Alexander Shevchenko, Vasyl Shukhayev and other artists.
"Collision with any of this collection is always the joy and wonder of discovery, first feature, and then the human race. In selecting works for the exhibition, we were stunned by the scale of the graphic collection Zavolokin. In essence, the complete publication of works could act as a good guide to the history of Russian and Soviet graphic. From a large collection of A. & A. Zavolokin we have identified the part, the limited 1900-1930-mi for years as the most interesting and challenging for collecting ... Original collector, choosing from the surrounding world that seems to him a valuable and present, create it through, for stroke, in the image, and an exhibition of his collection forms in the minds of the audience of his way to artistic comprehension of the world ", - Natalia Kournikova, art director of the gallery" Our artists, curator of the exhibition.
By the opening of the exhibition prepared by the directory in which published essays, memoirs of Alexander Zavolokin his colleagues and friends of Michael Shvydkoy, Alexandra Golitsyn, Leonid Tishkov, Zoe Kirnoze, Stephen Kutur and others.

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October 17, 2010 - December 20, 2010
Not all of the Cooper
The exhibition "Not all of Cooper" is devoted to the many talents of a remarkable artist, painter, decorator, stage designer Yuri Leonidovich Cooper. It includes paintings, books and printed graphics, theatrical sketches, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry design. You would not believe - this is not the whole COOPER. Apartment invented Y. Cooper, and populated his art in paintings and various objects, including furniture, produces no less impressed by the harmony, taste and correct understanding of the common space than the paintings themselves. And in the theater Yuri Leonidovich is not only brilliantly creates images and scenery, bringing them to the surface with its picturesque completeness, but also works on projects of renovation of interior permanent theater (now - the City of Voronezh Winter theater). The play "Twelve paintings from the artist's life, staged the Moscow Art Theatre, and designed and written by himself .....
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Yuri L. Cooperman (Cooper)

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1940 - Born in Moscow
1963 - graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named. Lenin, the graphic arts department
1967 - Member of the Union of Artists
1972 - emigrated to Israel and later moved to London
1975 - Moving to Paris
1983 - gets British citizenship

The most successful Russian artist who has achieved recognition in the West, Yuri Kuper has to his credit over 50 solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries around the world.
Claude Bernard Gallery in New York and Paris, the gallery, Jan-Cruz-Diteshaym in Geneva, Boles Sorokko Gallery in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris and London, the gallery Joshi in New York State Museum Fine Arts AS Pushkin Museum of Toulon, the Center for Fine Arts Sensberi in Norwich, Bukinri l'institut de Paris, museums Kiorau, Shikaraba, Ueno-no-mori and Shokoku-no-mori in Japan - the only part of their list.
However, who is Yuri Kuper, connoisseurs of art to tell is not necessary. It is well known for its magnificent "silver" work with old hammers, spatulas, trunks, his tulips and apples.
"Cooper prefers to draw the old objects, which are covered with the patina of time, as if worn out and faded, but as autumn leaves, as the fading glow purchased.
The more they marked time, the more they become timeless for Cooper, that is, the clearer their enduring aesthetic value ...
And if Cooper's subjects are symbols in themselves and in the broader sense of the symbols of the artist, his still lifes symbolize the loneliness and alienation of the artist in this world alone, gave him his own creative gift. "
V. Turchin

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On this chair you want to sit down. Seems to better convey the texture of tissue is impossible. And just a minute you know - a real velvet.
"There are so close-seed: Look at this apple, for what it is, and I want to feel the naturalness of this fabric here. So I just bought a new velvet and its glaze, soiled," - says Yuri Kuper, artist.
Yuri Kuper draws on metal, glass, makes collages. Even in academic painting adds a touch - a piece of paper. Love for old things, says the artist, he has inherited - his grandfather was the rag pickers. Its objects are simple, but always alone - paint brush, an apple, tulip, window. And they all seemed covered in cobwebs of time.
"Cooper is a visiting card of his love for the aging of the world, love for the aging of materials, admiring this natural aging" - explains Natalia Kournikova, gallery director, "Our artists.
He not only paints a picture, but also creates a theatrical scenery, costumes and jewelry. Small granary castle, burnt match, stained brush - it's brooches and pendants from Cooper. But - a unique edition of Pushkin's Mozart and Salieri. " Circulation of 150 copies. Illustrations - George Cooper.
"This book is very interesting author's approach to illustration, because it is purely associative, it is absolutely not a narrative, but the subjects of his lithographs inevitably plunge you into the world of books", - said Natalia Kournikova.

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Yuri Kuper - one of the most successful contemporary Russian artists. Its galleries are selling in New York, Paris and London, exhibiting leading Russian and foreign museums. Yuri L. recalls that the artist was quite by accident, "Poverty." Father of violinist died in the war. Growing up in a communal with fellow hooligans. Played football, drank vodka and sang songs.
"My friend in the class, a homegrown poet Alexander Grachev, said: let's go to Stroganovka. And I say: why do you think will take us?" He said: "I'm sure there experienced teachers, they are one touch pen will understand that We have talent. I listened to him, but this did not happen. That is, we simply do not allow for the exams, because we simply did not work ", - says Yuri Kuper.
Cooper began taking private lessons in painting, then enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of Geography, Pedagogical Institute. In 1972 to the year went to Israel and then lived in France and the UK. Now returned to Russia. Here in his new project - creating the interiors of the Voronezh Theater.

From site http://www.kournikovagallery.ru/press

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C17 October to 20 December 2010 in the gallery exhibition "Not all of the Cooper

The exhibition presents paintings, books and printed graphics, theatrical sketches, sculpture, ceramics and jewelry design Yuri Cooper.


1.Yury Cooper.

2.Yury Cooper and Natalia Kournikova.

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Exhibition of paintings from the collections of galleries

January 10, 2011 - March 22, 2011

The exhibition gallery presents works of the sixties: Y. Cooper, Zvereva, V. Yakovlev, O. Prokofiev and others.

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Gallery " Our artists for the second time refers to Heritage Chelishchev Pavel Fedorovich (1898 - 1957) , one of the prominent representatives of Russian artistic exile .
Many years of work Chelishchev were in the collections of major cultural figures and collectors - Gertrude Stein , Edith Sitwell , Helena Rubinstein , Edward James , Lincoln Kirstein , Jeffrey Bean , Serge Lifar and many others, now adorn the halls of the museum collections , including museums Whitney MoMA , Tate Modern , the Pompidou Center ...
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Today in the gallery "Our artists" (cottage village Birky, 36, 19-th km Rublevo Assumption Road) opens an exhibition of works by Pavel Fedorovich Chelishchev (1898-1957).
....... Appear before the public a series of brilliant portraits of models for many of them were close Chelishchev people - Charles Henri Ford (1931, 1933), Ruth Ford (1937), Nicholas Magelanos (two portraits of 1937), Florian Tanner (circa 1927), etc.

Among exhibits - the masterpieces that would be proud of any museum of twentieth century art: the portrait of Sergei Lifar, "Threesomes", "Fata Morgana", "Harvest", "tattooed", "Kids", "Anemones in a Vase, Portrait Patricia Lopez-Vilshou "," Chrysanthemum ". Significantly enriched the possibilities of a new exhibition sales chelischevskogo extensive collection of Ruth Ford - apparently the last major part of the heritage, formed mainly in the artist's life. This event was the final stage of selection of works, and help signal to the second show.
This exhibition adequately reflects the creative pursuit and achievement of PF Chelishchev and, indeed, is a complete retrospective of the artist. The opening of the exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalog (85 illustrations, circulation 800 copies) with two different covers, part of the edition includes a numbered copies in hard cover ........

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