"Labyrinth" Ivan Chuikov in MMSI
ARTinvestment.RU   02 ноября 2010

Works from the series "Windows", "Yin-Yang", "Options," "Signs", "Fragments," all large installations ("Theory of Reflection," "Apparatus for monitoring the void", "splitting"

Today, 2 November, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Ermolaevskiy per., 17) opens an exhibition of works by to the world art scene, Ivan Chuikov - a figure long ago and always relevant, and thus unique. Recognized as the world's classic Conceptualism , opened a window to Europe, "the prince of emptiness," "heretic stankovizma" embodied contradiction, the dandy of postmodernism ... The artist is always true once the chosen method - combining refined thoughts with perfect plasticity.

Series "windows" - the card Ivan Chuikov - ultimate metaphor for the boundaries between eras, art and life, the artist and the world. The mystery is what lies behind the veil of any description, a mystery about which the author never tires of reminding, is still intriguing.

New to Ivan Chuikov heresy simplicity, teetering on the exhibition game with puzzle- series "Yin Yang" and "Virtual Sculpture" and elegant "Labyrinth" is framed by the famous series of "options", "Signs", "Fragments" - a unique and recognizable painting Chuikov, which, since the "Big Bathers" (1970 ), became the property and the emblem of Russian art.

The exhibition will show all the major installations of the author ("The theory of reflection", "Apparatus for monitoring the void", "splitting"), as well as little-known work and the album "far and near».

«far and near" - recordings made in the same breath May 18, 1976 - today seem designed, executed, and over-fulfillment of the program on the following more than thirty years. Browse all picturesque genres mirror of reality and imagination, the respect of the event and its representation announced here first, before the above-mentioned series.

interesting that the text, rare for Ivan Chuikov material artist turns in his recognizable style, adapting and fragmenting time, as later he will be fit and fragment the space of his or someone else's visual expression.

viewer is encouraged to be a maze of meaning, redefining the boundaries of an artist with a distant and close.

by Ivan Chuikov provided by the State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Regina Gallery, Gallery XL, Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition runs until December 5, 2010.

Source: press release MMSI

Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI, with the exhibition "Labyrinth" can be viewed online AI .