Artist of the week. Vladimir Yankilevsky
ARTinvestment.RU   03 марта 2010

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recently in London's Mall Galleries opened retrospective exhibition of outstanding Russian nonconformist Vladimir Yankylevsky (b. 1938) , which was titled "Anatomy of the senses» . The exhibition covers almost half-century career. In connection with this event ARTinvestment.RU decided to recall the major achievements of the artist, as well as reflect on the prospects of investments in its work.

best known works Yankylevsky, without a doubt, the vast polyptych, each of which represents a "chord" of a few spaces, inhabited by unimaginable organic design. For this format the artist came when he was still quite young - in the early 1960's. Polyptych were presented at the famous "Taganskaya exhibition, organized by Eliem Belyutin and his students in November 1962 (in number of participants also included Ernst Unknown , Hulot Sooster and Yuri Sobolev ) . After some time, this exposure was taken to the stables, where she became part of the exhibition "30 years MOSKh", a famous fact that it visited Khrushchev himself, who had been the work of avant-garde violent obstruction. Pictures Yankylevsky, for example, the head of the party called the "daubs". After this scandal, the artist was forced to take a pseudonym - and many colleagues, Yankilevsky a living book illustration, and publishers do not want to deal with artists who are "misunderstood" Secretary General ..

Moscow next large exhibition where you can see the work of the painter, was only thirteen years later - this was the first "authorized "exposition of the Soviet avant-garde, which contributed to the pavilion" Beekeeping "at VDNH. By the time behind Yankylevsky already had several exhibitions in Europe, including such renowned galleries as Gmurzynska (Cologne) and the gallery Dina Verni (Paris), as well as solid experience working as an illustrator (in particular, for the journal Knowledge -- force "). In those years, the artist began creating three-part composition, which is reflected in the idea of unity of masculine and feminine with the universe, which is presented in the form of abstraction, which occupies the central panel. To the left of the universe is a woman's body, part robot, part "primitive", with a tiny head, but accented with primary and secondary sexual characteristics. The right part of the triptych - is the "self portrait", the male principle. It is represented in the form of the head, whose shape resembles a ritual mask of a primitive tribe. According to the artist's insight into his work elements of the archaic "was pretty random: I copied the old designs, not to imitate them, and perform other, find out where the border between the living and the dead ... Trying to reproduce this life and to develop a dynamic, plastic system where all found their place and acquired visual contact with reality, I suddenly came to create images similar to the archaic, and until I suddenly realized that this is the path that has always followed the artists, especially of ancient times: if not to imitate reality and sought to express the life, and obtained Negro mask, get ... In general, you understand. Whatever I did then, all of these monsters, monsters, found my guiding principle, and there were absolutely characters for me are alive, yet archaic, even after I realized that the archaic forms the basis of any art, as its skeleton, sometimes invisible. An archaic in his films is connected with man-made, and received unprecedented hybrid, something reminiscent of those that comes up with a prominent French artist Orlan (Orlan, pp. 1947), which, like Yankilevsky, deals with the problem of mutation of the body and human consciousness. Man and woman in it - are two sides of one substance; masculine image symbolizes movement, and female - stability. In later studies, both early intertwine with each other, and the universe around them. Apart triptychs, the artist creates as individual paintings and drawings depicting heads of the men and women of the trunk.

One of the main themes of creativity Yankylevsky is a multi-layered world, the simultaneous existence of multiple realities: "space" and the eternal, private fantasies, pressure of society ... Since the 1970's increasing importance in his work takes the image of the door that separates one world from another. The artist began to introduce these songs to their doors and other objects, borrowed from the gray Soviet everyday life, which Yankilevsky criticized as harshly as his colleague, Ilya Kabakov . The main heroes of his pictures, he increasingly made faceless, "little men" - dull, in the same dark coat, with a string bags and other paraphernalia ruthless "Sov" reality. He later became a place of his characters in the odd-shaped boxes, "thanks" to which the body put in a very awkward positions - it symbolizes the conformity, the desire to adapt, to make "just right". Yankylevsky, however, can not be attributed to the artists, dealing exclusively with social criticism. He cites the example of Van Gogh, who represents the artist's image, are excluded from "actual", ephemeral, - "... it is about creating your own vision, language, the synthesis of modern and archaic internal existential box. Yankilevsky admired painters in the works which coexist epic scope, a fierce expression and erotic motives - among his idols, he calls Picasso, Bacon and Max Ernst.

In Moscow, Vladimir Yankylevsky retrospective organized four times - in 1978, 1987, 1995-1996 and 2007. His work is included in the collections of many famous foreign museums, including the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Paris Pompidou Center and the Prague National Gallery.

at a public auction, however, the artist's works are exhibited not so often. The most expensive of his works ever appear at auction, is a picture of the City, Twilight, 29 February 2008 has brought to the Phillips de Pury 55 thousand pounds (109 thousand dollars) with no commissions. Interestingly, the estimate was only 8.12 of thousands of pounds.

Unfortunately, the current auction statistics of little help in making investment decisions on this artist. According to many experts, his work strongly undervalued - that is, prices fall short of the main ranges, which are traded in other works of the sixties the first row. One reason for this - the inertia of traditional collectors of the Sixties, for which the optics work Yankylevsky too extravagant and more consonant with modern art. Sometimes the ability of the artist strongly ahead of his time prevented his career. But the more the system tends towards equilibrium, the higher the probability of explosive price of progress. Therefore ARTinvestment.RU several years of work recommends Yankylevsky as very promising for collecting. Especially, this will be the best quality products.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI, and Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

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