Pavel Kondratiev Galeev Gallery
ARTinvestment.RU   24 апреля 2014

Last night in Galeev Gallery inaugurated an exhibition of painting, book and easel of Pavel Kondratiev (1902-1985) from the collection of the Yaroslavl Art Museum and private collections in St. Petersburg and Moscow

Galeev Gallery , April 24 - August 1, 2014
Moscow, B. Lane Kozikhinskiy . , 19 /6, p 1

In Galeev Gallery opened an exhibition of painting, book and easel of Pavel Kondratiev ( 1902-1985 ) from the collection of the Yaroslavl Art Museum and private collections in St. Petersburg and Moscow .

About Russian avant-garde and its major achievements began to speak and write recently. One of the first publications where this phenomenon was called by its name , was a book of Camilla Gray " The Great Experiment : Russian Art 1863-1922 ," published in 1962 .

We just crossed a century mark , crowning the history of this phenomenon. In his study further advancing new times , there are fresh perspectives , different optics . We are interested in not only the fundamental , underlying bases and avant-garde leaders , determined his ideas, but also a wider range of participants involved in this process and to enrich it with their creativity .

Pavel Kondratiev - one of the few leaders of the national fine art of the 1920s - 30s , " firsthand " learned the basics of art directly from the three leading avant-garde masters : , Filonov , Matyushina . Mikhail Vasilyevich he studied in Vhuteine ​​(1921-1926) , learning the " letter and spirit " theory "advanced watching ." By Malevich Kondratiev came in his last years of Kazimierz (1932-1935) , becoming, in fact, the last of his disciple : "We will treat it as a painter " - was the verdict of the great supremacist .

Between these two facts biography of particular importance to him is the third - in the years Workshop analytical Art < /a> ( school Filonov ) in 1925-1932 years .

Pavel Kondratiev Kolhoznicy , cleaning linen Watercolour . 36,3 × 33,4 belt Source : Press Release Galeev Gallery

Pavel Kondratiev Untitled composition . 1927 Paper, black watercolor . 16,8 × 14,9 belt Source : Press Release Galeev Gallery

Kondratiev was among the students " first call " when the school has made ​​tentative steps . Years with Filonov proved decisive for Kondratieff . His early " analytical " compositions (they remained no more than a dozen in the collections of the State Russian Museum , Yaroslavl Art Museum , National Gallery of Armenia in Yerevan and the National Center for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris) later, in 1960 , responded polyphonic abstractions in which the world of structural joints and atomoobraznyh looks akin elements Filonov - his "formula" pointless "symphony" of the 1920s . Kondratiev and participated in the historic exhibition of pupils Filonov in Printing House in 1927 with a huge (up to four meters high ) canvases , still stunning grandeur of execution and " made" (to use the terminology Filonov ).

in the prewar years , like many if Kondratiev " living " work in the journals" Siskin " , " hedgehog " ; designed the children's books . And, like his colleagues , Kondratiev never imagined that the schedule of children's books and magazines of the 1920s would be a hot topic of today's research , exhibitions, and - not least - the object of collectibles .

Name Kondratieff noted in the history of literature : in addition to that he designed the poetry and prose of the leading "Chinar" and oberiutov ( Lipavsky , Vvedenskii Z Razumovsky ) , he was "lucky" be character poems and diaries Daniil Kharms - at some point of his rival in the struggle for " hand and heart » Alisa Poret . In this, as we understand the merits of Kondratieff - artist has a little , but the story of his relationship with the world " country of poets ," as is often the case , it is one of the cultural mythology, without which it is difficult to imagine the art of the twentieth century .

Pavel Kondratiev Senezh . 1936 Oil on canvas. 32,7 × 39,5 Galeev Gallery Source : Press Release Galeev Gallery

in the postwar period Kondratiev declared itself " in a loud voice ." In the early 1950s , going on assignment Uchpedgiz Chukotka to gather material for the publication of textbooks for northern peoples , Pavel discovered a world full of new plastic ideas . In a series of "Chukotka" (1950 -60s ) , we see how his experience of the artist , refracting practice contemporaries colleagues (such as Sterligov ) and based on the lessons of the great innovators of the twentieth century , to determine the so-called" additional element "in art , which is engaged in the search for Malevich and his disciples .

Pavel Kondratiev Evening. From the series " Haystacks and the moon ." 1964 Oil on cardboard. 20,3 × 25,6 YAHM Source : Press Release Galeev Gallery

Pavel Kondratiev Angel. 1971 Watercolour . 29,1 × 29,3 Galeev Gallery Source : Press Release Galeev Gallery

in the 1960s - early 1980s, becoming a recognized leader Kondratiev younger generation of painters , his art vector defining the further development of artistic thought . The first solo exhibition , held in the Leningrad House of Writers in 1981, confirmed his reputation as an outstanding master . In Leningrad, approved by the term "Circle Kondratieff ", consisting of a group of his disciples and followers .

first exhibition in Moscow Pavel Kondratiev made ​​up of works from private collections in Moscow and St. Petersburg , as well as from Yaroslavl Art Museum . The exhibition is a monograph on the artist's work , it is particularly close attention to his paintings and graphic works of the pre-war and wartime. Archival materials and works of the many museums in the country and the world are published for the first time .

exhibition is open until August 1. Tel. : (495) 699 83 83 , 699 85 50 , www.ggallery.ru .

Source : press release Galeev Gallery