Artist of the week. Alexander Ney
This year the outstanding Russian artist and sculptor @78 mdas, more than half of his life he lived and worked in the United States. But the incredible beauty of Terra cotta adorned the most important Russian collections in the informal post-war art
Ordinary Russian art critics of the generation "who for forty -" it is unlikely that until recently could be very familiar with the work of Alexander Ney (1939). Why? The usual story: 33-летний Her-Нежданов one of the first emigrated from the USSR — already in 1972. For as much as 7 years before Dovlatov. First, the artist went to Paris. And two years later It moved to the USA and finally settled in new-Йорке.
Naturally, further information curtain went down, and safely concealed from the Russian new-йоркскую art-сцену for thirty long years. Imagine what 1970-80-х could walk from the West information? "The voice"? Published in the Parisian magazine "And-Я" Igor Shelkovsky or in the "New American" Dovlatov? @Ndashто, of course, seeped across the border clandestinely. But the circle was too narrow. In the end, 30 years of isolation from her homeland remained mostly the memories of friends, the legend of bold independent artist and the strange, very characteristic sculpture in a few private collections. @Ndashнастоящему our generation could get acquainted with creativity of outstanding compatriot only at the beginning of 2000-х years old when he spent his first personal exhibition. And approximately at the same time work Ney, were offered on the "Russian auction" the world's auction houses.
Probably the most famous of the sculptures Alexander Ney — large terracotta skull in the hands of Vladimir Vysotsky on photos from the Dovlatov "New American." On black-белом picture of Alexander Ney terracotta looks like lace — hollow and weightless. This is actually an illusion. Terracotta Ney is quite heavy and not hollow inside. The illusion is achieved due to the distinctive technique of the sculptor. Have frequent holes usually does not see the bottom It gets deep symmetrical pattern on the surface of the Terra cotta with the help of surgical and dental instruments. Filigree painstaking work, almost jewelry. No wonder his sculptures when-то was selected for the decoration showcases the Tiffany flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
the Word "pattern" in the description of equipment Ney I have taken in quotation marks is not accidental. This is not a purely decorative technique, not ornament, but a special formal move into the work surface — allegory of the interpenetration of spaces, communication of our world with the cosmos. Where is it? It is known that in children from Moscow relatives of Sasha Nezhdanova was really impressed with the work of Nicholas Roerich, and later he met with the religious-философским teaching "the Living ethics". However at the level of Proskurov in the language of Ney's quite a lot of borrowing from different civilizations, cultures and philosophies. For example, squares, circles and points in the "ornament" on terracota refer toChinese mysticism. Where the square, for example, is marking the four cardinal points, the sign of choice. As for favorite sculptural form wizard — heads, this is the influence of the culture of the Sumerians, African sculptures and even ancient petroglyphs.
the Artist was born in Leningrad in 1939, caught a blockade. The boy's name was then still, of course, Alexander Ney, and Oudinot Sasha-Нежданов. Ney — is a short memorable alias that the artist took in the West. However, "Nezhdanov", the stories of the sculptor, too, was not quite real name. His father was forced to change foreign into catchy simple Russian name after the revolution.
In 1950-х the artist graduated from art school in Leningrad, then studied in Moscow art school at the Surikov Institute, later — at the faculty of sculpture at the Leningrad Institute named after Repin. Despite good grades, after graduation Her, in his own words, were not allowed to turn in the professional field. Worked primarily at home, on the table. In the late 1960-х Alexander Nezhdanov was busy at the restoration Department of the State Hermitage Museum, and also worked on tasks of the thumbnail. The most memorable of his ordering of those times — backdrop for Shakespeare's "King Lear" — masterpiece Director Kozintsev. In the credits Nezhdanova will not find, where specified by the artist-постановщик Eugene Aeneas, under whose leadership It did murals and created properties. Interesting episode of his biography began teaching in the Leningrad House of pioneers in the 1960s-х years, where one of his students was the writer Sergei Dovlatov. Which 15 years later he would meet in America. Teaching, restoration, film, assistance in the execution of art orders that are received by the wife. And what about the exhibitions in the USSR? Maybe small, but information about them in handbooks have not survived. Resonance was not sure.
But soon after the emigration of the exhibition Ney went just a string — both individual and group. It's already ranked in the clip artists-нонконформистов, whose works were shown at numerous exhibitions of contemporary Russian art in exile, supervised by Alexander Glezer. Paris — Venice — London — Tokyo etc. most of the desktops was done, of course, in America since the late 1970-х years. With neh worked famous galleries, representing the sixties, — Nachamkin, Mimi Fertz and others. In Russia nowadays the exhibition Alexander Ney was held in national centre for contemporary arts, on the site Art4.ru (the project gallery pop/off/art), the Museum of decorative-прикладного the arts.
Now, as expected, about the auction market. By price trends at Ney all about the same as most of the sixties. From 2003-2004 has been rapid growth in 2007-м prices reached a peak and was set a price record at $26 160. Which today It is in the top-100 the most expensive of the sixties.Next was a series of economic crises. And now, much to the delight of new collectors, a five-digit prices in dollars can be remembered only as a historical episode. Or as a potential price target. Because in recent years in the auction market good sculptures of the reign of Alexander Ney can be bought in a much more comfortable price range of $1 500-3 500. Compact work can cost even cheaper. On large sculptures prices can be at a public auction to $6000. Plus-минус. It abroad. And in Russia the market works while Ney is almost entirely dealership, the domestic auction market in our country, sales of works by Alexander Ney while isn't registered. So maybe just terracotta "Mushroom" in 1975, which is now offered for our Auction AI, will form the first entry in the auction statistics in Russia. By the way, that terracotta sculptures Ney — flagship things in a recognizable technique with which is associated the name of the artist — are the most liquid and promising for collecting. In addition to terracotta, from Ney interesting graphics, and painting objects of papier-маше sand. But such things while very very rarely appear at auction. It remains to add that the experts ARTinvestment.RU Alexander Ney considers important, but still undervalued artists with significant potential for price growth.
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