Продано: Oleg Kotelnikov, "Trinity Cathedral"

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Oleg Kotelnikov, Trinity Cathedral, 35x50cm, canvas /oil, 1980


Oleg Kotelnikov - a cult artist, whose paintings are in museums around the world, from the Russian Museum and ending New York Metropoliten Museum; cameraman, actor, animator, writer, designer, musician (his song compositions are performed by well-known rock groups, such Alicia, hummingbirds, Pepsi, etc.), poet and long-term exhibition organizer different plan, fond lately of modern Japanese culture.

Nyquist name is also associated with the socio-cultural phenomenon of "Kamchatka". Needless basement boiler room as well as possible in line with the concept of "underground" with its specificity "underground laughter."

Oleg Kotelnikov was born in 1958. At school he was a classmate of Timur Novikov. Graduated LHPTU № 61 specialty cabinetmaker and restorer. Worked as a guard, fireman, carpenter, scaffolder. Playing guitar, at one time was in a rock club with his group "LF-RF." Part of the group "New Artists" in TEII. Experienced direct impact Koshelohova B., A. Grigoriev, E. Yufit, punk and rock culture.

His work is closely related to a group "New Artists", founded by Timur Novikov in Leningrad in 1982 and has existed for seven years. Painting Kotelnikov 1980 created the aesthetics of expressionism and "everythingness." "Everythingness" - an expression I.Zdanevicha M.Larionov and defining freedom of creative choice, the ability to turn the art of all of the surrounding reality. Most of the paintings of that time created O.Kotelnikovym in mixed media, using tempera, oils, pencils and other materials, sometimes in a "foreign", found on (like a painting "Flight"). By the 1980s, are painted portraits of his friends O.Kotelnikovym Timur Novikov and George Guryanova and urban landscapes-the emblem ("Peter"). At the time, he often used the products of popular culture, turned to the iconography of scary comics and computer games, without neglecting any signs of life.