Plavinskaya Dmitry Petrovich

April 28, 1937 (Moscow)

creation of thought and of human hands, sooner or later absorbed by the eternal elements of nature: Atlantis - the ocean, the temples of Egypt - the sand of the desert, the palace of Knossos and the Labyrinth - volcanic lava, the Aztec pyramid - lianas jungle. For me the most interesting is not the flowering of a civilization, and its death and the onset of the next ...

D. Plavinsky

painter, graphic artist, author of facilities and installations.

From 1951 to 1956 he studied at the Moscow Art College in 1905 in memory theatrically this Set department (Head - artist VA Shestakov, a former chief theater artist. V. ; Meyerhold).

exhibitions since 1957.

Since 1959 Plavinsky traveled and worked in northern Russia - in Novgorod, Pskov, Ferapontov Monastery in Yaroslavl and Kostroma.

Started artist (1962-1964) with abstract painting: «... Opening for a brilliant poetry of Khlebnikov. Start abstract real time. Attention to texture ... »

«... in 1962 ... the first time, develops the theme of Time, where the fate line of multi-cultures of mankind, interwoven with each other, give the impression hiromantichesky One Time ...» (D. Plavinsky).

In 1964 AD Plavinsky made a graphic book of herbs from nature, then finally turned to the subject of painting, too, invoice, and a growing place in his work started to take on religious grounds. In mid-1960 the artist created large canvases, "The Gospel of John", "Novgorod wall", "old book", using plastic and tie of the old Slavonic texts.

«... The main thing is always one thing - the love of structures; strukturizmom permeated everything: wrote an artist painting, exploring whether the fossilized shells, whether the fungus, bark, insects, - everywhere he looks this amazing variety of rhythmic structures ... If there are no structures - the artist has nothing to do. If they are, it would still - if carefully drawn with a network of nature or leaf veins, forming a plaster on the board, to enrich his fingerprints pieces of burlap, tulle, various items.

Color Plavinsky not interested - the problem only not to interfere with color identification structure.

coloring of the picture is not always bright - a grayish-yellowish-brown gamma ... Structures inexhaustible variety ... Their countless variations may lie in any form: the scales of fish, hard chitinous integument of crayfish, crabs, insects ... The important thing - his devotion to actors ... "(L. Kropiwnicki, 1965)

special place in the artist is etching.

In 1960 took personal property from an art exhibition I. Tsirlina, which became acquainted with a collector Plavinsky G. Kostaki. "... George Kostaki gets from this exhibition of my work" Screaming fish. " This work opens the broad topic of fish, turtles, lizards, beetles, butterflies ... A year later, Nina Stevens begins to collect my work. By the 50 th anniversary of Soviet power in 1967 in New York at the Museum of Modern Art opened the exhibition of Russian art XV-XX centuries. Stevens puts his collection of contemporary Russian avant-garde. It had before it the twenty-two of my works. Three of them became the Museum of Modern Art in New York ... In 1965, the picture was written "Tselokant" (Museum of Modern Art, New York). It is given a dramatic image of the ancient fish, in the throes of giving birth to human ».

Subsequent solo exhibitions:

1970 - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna);

1978 - MSU (Moscow);

1978 - Institute of Atomic Energy. Kurchatov (Moscow);

1990 - gallery «Today» (New York, USA);

1993 - New York (USA);

1995 - Gallery "House Nashokin" (Moscow) and others.

Member of the Union of Artists since 1978.

Since 1969 Dmitry Plavinsky had lived and worked in the countryside. "... Before me is a tragic picture of extinction and unbearable life of Russian peasants. The subject I have devoted a series of etchings, which has developed over 15 years. Rustic theme, I finished the painting "Running in the darkness" ( "Dog") - acquired by the Museum Ludwig, Germany. Complex architectonic structure "Cross", 1976, sums up my ideas for almost twenty years ...

... In 1977, I abruptly turn on the texture and poluobemnyh works to varnish-lessirovochnomu space, absorbing object and its dematerialized. The focus becomes not an object, and space. My many trips to Central Asia, I summarized in a series of "Skull and the Koran" and in a complex object of Asia. City of the Dead "(Museum of Modern Art, Tsarina, Moscow). In my new lessirovochno-spatial system were written in the picture "Old Armchair" (1977), "Flying Fish" (1978), "Skat" (1981), "Turtle" (1982).

... Since 1988, I include songs, rhythmic construction notation of Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, but here in America - working with Notation of American composer George Crumb ... "(D. Plavinsky ).

From 1991 to 2004 the artist lived and worked in New York.

Inspired by trips to Greece, Italy and Israel, they were created cycles of works for solo exhibitions Echo of ancient ruins, "In Search of Italy" and started work on the exhibition "Holy Land", which was interrupted due departure to Moscow. The tragedy of September 11, 2001 was the occasion for writing a series of works entitled "Apocalypse 11." This American theme was to Plavinsky exhausted. In 2004 he returned to Moscow.

artist's works are represented in major museums around the world: the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Metropolitan Museum (New York, USA), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, USA), Museum Ludwig (Germany), Museum of Zimmerly (USA), etc.