Artist of the week. Vladlen Gavrilchik
ARTinvestment.RU   11 декабря 2017

Pure St. Petersburg's history. Guryanov recalled that Gavrilchik was one of the favorite artists of Timur Novikov. Nonconformist, the artist-самоучка, the poet, the original. Worked, without consulting the Soviet government, without a thought to survive until the warm days

News about the death of beloved "worker's words and brushes" came just a week ago. One of the main artists of the Leningrad underground "gazanevsky culture", the forerunner of the "Mitki" Vladlen Vasilievich Gavrilchik died 5 December 2017 at the age of 88 years.

Gavrilchik was born in a military family, grew up in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Since childhood wanted to be an artist, but fate had other plans. After the death of his father had to go to a military school in Tashkent. Then there was the Leningrad military edge-морское school, on — Pacific fleet service in the far East. In Leningrad Vladlen Vasilievich back to the age of 26, grown man — in such years of all institutions usually already behind. Where to study to be an artist? Gavrilchik went to the art room. But from there he was quickly expelled for formalism. And not on orders from above, but its the same. According to legend, on one of his Studio paintings (the thing is not preserved) Gavrilchik ideologically incorrectly portrayed the fire brigade at work. Fire — thick hose — leaky. In General, colleagues were subjected to obstruction for "formalist affectation". Gavrilchik took note, silently gathered brush — and left. So in the mid 1950-х ended his brief period of formal training and was proclaimed the independence in the status of the Amateur artist.

Since then, it became Leningrad universities, museums and libraries, textbooks — samizdat Nietzsche and Spengler, the inspiration — Khlebnikov and Kruchenykh, and mentor — filonovas Mikhail Tsybasov.

the Subjects of the paintings the artist is often told of his remarkable professional career. Not work in the USSR was impossible — at least not to obtain the article for parasitism. And who just Gavrilchik did not work. If specially chosen positions on the poetry of names: After a boring engineer electronification instrument design Bureau Gavrilchik has worked as a skipper gruntovalnoy scows, conductor of the mail train and the driver of the station mixing. In General, no conditions for painting, so his works 1960-70-х years often compact size, lightweight materials (tempera on hardboard, so without a strong smell). Write that first workshop appeared in Gavrilchik only in 1976, at 47.

the Patriarch of the Leningrad nonconformism took part in all major exhibitions of unofficial art. The most famous — in DC named strip (1974) and DC "Nevsky" (1975). If you translate from St. Petersburg to Moscow, it is, conventionally, as "beekeeping" and "culture House" on VDNH. Before that, in 1971, Gavrilchik participated in the group exhibition "Backyard" (informal showing at the Studio of Vladimir Ovchinnikov). In 1976 — in DC Ordzhonikidze. In short, in his biography — all the important milestones in the history of the Leningrad artistic underground.

Typical of 1960-х fascination with the avant-garde, abstraction and all sorts of "geometry", Vladlen Gavrilchik spared. Was surrealism in 1970-х were sculptures and reliefs from nuts anddetails were still some-то experiments, but a recognizable part of his philosophy and style, they did not. The artist's work is associated today mainly with figurative painting — albeit primitive, absurd, but figurative. In painting Gavrilchik was different thematic and stylistic phases, due to new life experiences. For example, skipper of the period is reflected in the cycle of original seascapes. Probably, the environment and the poor living conditions and bleak everyday life has grown "lumpenism" — still lifes with teapots, utensils, split insulators, burnt matches, etc. a Reaction to presenst and hypocrisy of the "Soviet man" became his critical stories on the verge of social-арта. And in later years, after "perestroika", Gavrilchik suddenly appeared at the cycle "spike-объектов" (from the English. ship — "ship") — objects in the form of boats made of the stuff. But perhaps one of the most recognizable of the Gavrilchik was his "parsuny style". Is the word "Parsuna" — early primitive Russian portrait, where the likeness with the appearance is very conditional, but it is supported by recognizable attributes, and an inscription with the name of the model.

Great passion Vladlen Gavrilchik was poetry. Also very specific — is even more radical than his painting (although there is just enough). A lot of hooligan lyrics was samizdat and rare read for his. His collected works were published only after "perestroika". Really hard on the fan. The most famous verse Gavrilchik on aesthetics at all punk. If you do not take into account that punk emerged a few years later than line Gavrilchik about how "Glorious city Seadons".

About the market Gavrilchik objective information not much. Auction records ($10 000-12 500) can be ignored as a result of all the greater enthusiasm of 2008. More recent auction sale — is already in the neighborhood of $3000 on a good thing. At the dealership market may be cheaper — say, $1500. Maybe much more expensive. It should be remembered that the St. Petersburg artists there is a geographical paradox. In Petersburg why-то the asking prices for that in Moscow it is impossible to sell in principle. Periodically there and they get it. At the same time we observed how St. Petersburg deliverers bring things in Moscow, where they were at the auction to buy the St. Petersburg collectors and taken back to Peter. The explanation of this bizarre logistics, we still have not found. But this is a trend rather than isolated cases.

, which is now sold AI Auction, — is just the most that neither is a characteristic Gavrilchik valuable period in 1972. Plot — metaphorical, philosophical. Man in uniform and with a star on the cap tramples the heel of a violin. Who he is, is not known (this could use a signature). Comrade major party or the Chinese cultural revolution —, let this remain a mystery for the future owner. The key is the message of a free man from a distant unfree time suddenly turned out to be prophetic.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: kkk-bluelagoon.ru, litkarta.ru