Продам: E.Ostrov, "Composition in Red"

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For Sale:

Yegor Island, Composition in Red, 2006, oil on canvas /canvas, 120 x 158 cm

Born in 1970 in Leningrad.
In 1992 he entered the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg, which he left a year and a half, and felt the lack of a classical education. In 1993, began attending classes at the New Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1994 created a series of paintings done in the style of "screening" and dedicated to Achilles. Since 1995 enthusiastic revival of photographic techniques acacia. In 1996, implemented the project "Interaction", in which a picture of the artist and his friends, the developing neo-classical art, projected on the firewall Petersburg houses. In 1997, recreated with the help of computer technology in principle panorama installation "Dialogue", created for the exhibition "The Cabinet" in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1998, dedicated to the study of Renaissance perspective Project "Pyramid". In created based on classic works of art objects, the intersection of two parallel lines transformed into a top of the pyramid, facing the viewer. In 1998, making a series of photographs "Sculptures Louvre." In 2001, based on the series creates pictures that connect the characteristic principle of the artist and the digital transformation fotoobraza passion op-art.
Chick nest Timur Novikov, Yegor Island sits on two chairs at once. He neoakademist, manic reproducing classic characters and stories are so familiar to him in the Hermitage and the Louvre. Cupids, Psyche, Daffodils and Fauns played with them in the form of raster-sign slips era of computers and printing.
This simple method Island and inserts itself into another caste - media and computer artists. Thus, the work of Egor Islands are "ideal" image of modern art: the art of classical subjects and meet the proportion of modernity - digital strip. A combination that would seem strained, if it were not so natural for the artist, whose school goes back not only to the Academy Novikova, but also to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and weekdays are more like a successful yuppie pastime of the early 21 th century. (Nikolai Palazhchenko)

Selected exhibitions

1994 Renaissance and Resistance
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1994-1995 Self-identification Positions in St. Peterburg Art from 1970 until Today
Ifa Gallery, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway;
The State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland;
Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Peterburg
1996 Yegor Ostrov. Paintings, Rotloff, Karlsruhe (Solo)
1997 Kabinet Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1998 Exhibition of the New Academy of Fine Arts
Museum of Foreign Art, Riga
1998 "The seven lines per inch"
Personal exhibition of painting and drawing
"Aidan," gallery, Moscow (Solo)
1998 "New positive processes"
Exhibition of photos gummiarabicheskih
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2000 "Heirs Cparty"
Sinebruhoff Museum, Helsinki
2001-2002 Beauty and Eroticism
Gasunie Gallery, Groningen