"First Person". Painting Arsene Savadov in Moscow
ARTinvestment.RU   19 мая 2011

Today in the «V-Art gallery» (Moscow) opens the first in Russia over the past 10 years solo exhibition of paintings by famous Ukrainian artist Arsen Savadov "First Person"

V-Art gallery, May 19 - June 19, 2011

I write the same book as Fellini shot the same film.
Arsene Savadov

Today «V-Art gallery» (Moscow, Dmitrovsky Pereulok, 7) opened the first in Russia over the past 10 years solo exhibition of paintings by famous Ukrainian artist Arsene Savadov « From the first person ».

Arsene Sawada - a key figure in contemporary art from the late 1980's - early 1990's, the representative of the Ukrainian "new wave". Author ostrosotsialnyh artistic expression in an era of wild ninetieth , today Sawada - artist museum level, which serve as confirmation of the success of the artist in the West and brilliant selling works at auction Sotheby's. Product Savadov are in major museums and private collections in the world.

In 1990 Savadov fame almost revolutionary for the time the project «Deepinsider», consisting of a series of photographs, including the Donbass -Chocolate "and" Fashion in the cemetery. " Savadov name became known after the project with the miners in tutus (series of the Donbass-Chocolate "), as well as models, posing against dug graves (" Fashion at the cemetery »).

continuation Shocking Picture Story in 1999 was a series of «Underground 2000 - pictures that reproduce fragments of frescoes by Giotto in the salt mines, and culminating in the scandalous stages of creativity Savadov became nekrofotoproekt Book of the Dead" (2001) - still lifes of dead bodies dressed as a prototype of souls who can not leave.

Today Arsene Savadov left former outrageous and Dadaist PHOTOPERFORMANCE and returned to the painterly tradition. According to the artist, "a modern language media - is the painting after Conceptualism. Not an emotional landscape, and analyst with brushes in their hands. Color and shape as elements of the concept of choice. " Painting for Savadov should always be convincing. In any paintings is important to separate reading of literary works and his abstract, color, historical meaning. Savadov says that one can not "think of comics visionary language».

ARSEN Sawada Letters Source: Press Release «V-Art gallery»

Savadov denotes the direction of his creative quest as a "new mythology" - a "priority for all thinking artists, is not moving to reality, and engaged in intelligent modeling. New mythology Savadov line up is already starting to work «Underground 2000. "Other artists seeking phenomena. And I can not log into the phenomenon and it has to build a superstructure - the ideological, idiotic, selfish. " Savadov after a long period "used the old school as a technique of entering a big market».

The exhibition "From the first person in« V-Art gallery »will be presented to such monumental canvases as" The Flight into Egypt "," Letters, "" Dedication Ando Hiroshige »,« Fioland », as well as photographs from the series of the Donbass-Chocolate" and «Underground». Work "Fiddler" - the artist's pictorial reflection of stopped moment, the painting "Avignon girls" - the memory of Picasso. "One hundred years later Picasso becomes psevdopovodom for the manifestation of reality through the recollection of his masterpiece».

Savadov believes that his generation "caught so many formed the vanguard, as a historical stage, a layer of history, that there is no difference, copy of Holbein or Picasso. But we do not make copies, we are creating remixes. In "Star" is clearly discernible reference to the Pre-Raphaelites - Burne-Jones, Milles. It can be traced tribute Romanticism and feel the influence of metaphysics, Giorgio de Chirico (series "Moon-Sun"). According to the artist, the content of the work - this is the current level of postmodernism, is not vulgar and is not straightforward. It is important to understand that post-modernism - not humor ».

plot for Savadov - it is part of the concept of filling. Therefore, understanding and discernment of the plot is so important. The monumental canvas "Mirotochaschie" with the new mythology of heroes Savadov - dancers - is "capture and re-defined worldview in which there is such a thing as mirotochenie. Through mirotochenie - the mystical story, the artist tries to express the "purity and beauty of some and some old school canonical value simply being human nature».

Epatage, Dadaist fighting psevdotsennostyami and public chimeras in a transitional era for the country Savadov brought fame and inscribed his name in the modern history of art. In the twenty-first century, continuing to develop new mythology, and retaining the old heroes of the creativity, Savadov drawn to the classics both in terms of technology, and in terms of philosophy. Today, when post-modernism is history, it's time to take stock.

What today can tell the picturesque artist's work? Where did the idea of ​​salvation and find beauty? As an artist understands the category of freedom? Answers can try to find the exhibition in «V-Art gallery». In any case, as rightly observes Savadov: "Matters not to me. I had the right to see such a prospect ».

Source : Press Release« V-Art gallery »