Продано: Vladimir Ovchinnikov - "Gold /Black"

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Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Gold /Black, 1998, 89 x 130 cm, oil on canvas /oil


Vladimir Ovchinnikov was born on October 4, 1941 in the family of Leningrad, who had gone to the evacuation of the Perm region. In the forty-fifth family returned to the wooden house standing at the Leningrad suburb Shuvalov. As a child, my mother took Vladimir and his friends in the Hermitage, by all means, calling at Knights Hall or to consider arrowheads in the department of primitive art.
Almost every child once get a pencil and paper. Ovchinnikov for them since childhood, became the only means of playing mother sank into the soul experiences and observations. According to the artist, as he felt that with the help of drawing and painting, he can "find their language," is seriously engaged in self-education. Then he began to form around a particular social circle. In particular, a great influence on him had a familiarity with the artist Eugene Semeoshnikovym.
Ovchinnikov admits that in his youth did not feel strong enough to dive into the system of Soviet art education and not be broken as a person. Soviet ideology was alien to him since his youth, genetically. So he was looking for different, unusual for its time in the way of art. He worked as an assistant painter-decorator at the Kirov Theater, and later - in hozchasti Hermitage together with other young artists and writers.
In winter 1971 the artist in his workshop, organized in a makeshift lane one of the first so-called flat exhibitions in postwar Leningrad. Participated in the exhibition, such as he, working outside the formal system, artists. The result shows were dating with future colleagues and peers, and by failing to artist studio "for the intended use."
Vladimir Ovchinnikov was one of the organizers of the famous exhibitions in cultural centers named Strip and Neva in 1974, and 75 years. It was the first allowed by officials show unofficial artists. Ordinary Soviet audiences for the first time was able to see the direction of modern art, from the abstract to surrealism, the existence of which in the domestic arts had no idea.
Ovchinnikov participated in these shows has its mature paintings, figurative works and plot in which modern intricately mixed with biblical and mythological scenes. Soviet officials from the art with more suspicious of his paintings, the artist suspecting a hidden anti-Soviet propaganda.
In fact, the artist and then, in the Soviet era, and much later, when his personal exhibitions were held in many countries around the world, attracted by the miracle and topic - how to back, home parties - the absurd in human life. In search of subjects for paintings, he willingly turns to his favorite writers absurdist - Borges, Ionesco, Beckett, and often comes up with stories himself. Regardless of the time of the historical circumstances of his paintings are full of well-aimed sketches, unexpected associations, and constant humor with which he tells the story of the most serious things.

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On MacDougalls, e exhibited this thing in 2008.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

On MacDougalls, e exhibited this thing in 2008.

Very true Cyril, I exhibited.

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