Artist of the week: Alexander Savko
ARTinvestment.RU   06 февраля 2018

Ironic artist working in the style of neo-поп-арта, unwittingly became one of the faces of the new "forbidden art", again emerged in Russia in the mid-2000-х. It got to the point that in 2011 the court found one of Savko and all extremist

something Happened, warned Gorin gardener müller (former Myunghauzen): the joke is not all prolongs life. Those who are laughing — extends. And the one who sharpens... Nerve showing your face around a lot.

the Genre, which for many years Savko, initially not without its risks. Built on irony and the absurd, he is doomed to constant attacks "traditionalists". Unless you can pass by safely when a well-known classic canvases to break the "idol" cartoon, entertainment, pop-индустрии, as well as images of ideological propaganda? How to live, if the picture is Botticelli's Venus sport Teletubbies, in the composition of the Turkish Sultan by Repin write clowns, instead of IDA Rubinstein by Serov from posing naked Marge Simpson, Kabakov at the festival drinking tea humanoids, and afflicted with old engravings instructs Mickey-Маус. World classics Savko shameless govern what-то the Simpsons, Superman, cats-томы, snow white, Disney cartoon characters and even work with his collective farm. In General, nothing is sacred. The artist himself in one of the interview for such accusations, said, "...in art, I do not see the boundaries that supposedly the artist should not cross. The premise of the characters of mass culture in a different environment — aesthetic, temporal, stylistic — is a conscious artistic technique. It's an experiment, it's scary wondering if you are any-то characters placed in it is not typical for their situation. You yourself don't know how they will behave, how they live, will be combined with other interior with a different context, are acceptable if they are for each other" (source: cultobzor.ru).

-умному brand of genre technique that uses Alexander Savko, is called a palimpsest (via-гречески "again erased"). In various guises the principle known from time immemorial. For example, when the caves were faded rock paintings over them struck new drawings. In the case of the primary layer Savko-заготовкой stands a painting by a famous artist, which is phantasmagoric connection on the same plane recognizable characters of our time, stories drawn from myths of Ancient Greece, and the laws of composition of classical painting. The palimpsests Savko — response to ongoing world events and processes, and with such supply of material you can feel the ironic tone in relation to current society, its views and interests. He says "the main weapon of the artist is his irony. And well, when she dressed in such good clothes, when it attracts attention, looks like just such malevolence street".

unfortunately, government officials from the arts and other influential circles thought on-другому.

Remove work Savko on orders from above began 12 years ago. In 2005-м two things from a rather old series "the Journey of Mickey mouse on the history of art" (1995) was banned by leadershipThe Tretyakov gallery to be shown at the exhibition "Russian pop-арт". According to the organizer, Andrei Yerofeyev, in the last hours before the Vernissage, the government ordered to remove from the walls out of the Windows of some of the works of Mikhail Roginsky, Leonid Sokov, Ilya Kabakov, Avdei Ter-Оганьяна, Alexander Savko, Vincent Nilina. In 2007, the same work Erofeev decided to show the exhibition "Forbidden art" at the Sakharov center. And got new troubles. In 2008, two works Savko was recognized in Tagansky court offensive. And examination before the court, formed the basis of charges filed by the prosecution, the organizers of the exhibition Andrei Erofeev and Yuri Samodurov. He Savko decision the court commented: "Their work, I'm not going to give exhibitions. They won't see what I wanted to say". But that was not all. In August 2011 in the town of Tarusa, Kaluga region, Zhukovsky district court found one of the above mentioned works Savko extremist material. The reason for the sentence was the conclusion, previously performed by experts Natalia Anievas and Victor by Slobodchikova for the prosecution.

Alexander Savko (1957) was born in Moldova. In 1974-1981 he studied at the Department of scenography at the Odessa theatre and art College. I arrived in Moscow in the early 1990-х. Several years worked in the famous then squat on Baumanskaya, 13, together with Avdey Ter-Оганьяном, Valery Koshlyakov, Vladimir Anzelma Yury M. Sabelnikov, Vladimir Dubossarsky, Alexander by Sigutinym, Sergei Shekhovtsov. In 1996 the first solo exhibition Savko "School killers" took place at the Marat Guelman gallery. Since then, his works have been exhibited in many art-пространствах and museums: gallery "And-3", "Aidan gallery", MMOMA, the State gallery on Solyanka, etc. of the Exhibition Savko took place in Austria, Germany, France.

On the market. Savko — a well-known artist in Russian contemporary art. His work has been sold in major galleries of the Brewery the Golden age 2007-2012. At auctions his paintings exhibited at least 2008. In one of our database were more than 20 auction event on auction in Moscow, Kiev, Krasnodar, London. The auction record was set in Moscow in 2014. At that time a gigantic Sponge-Боб, raspugivali dankowski bathers in work at noon, was sold for $11 000. But this is a record, by definition, out of the ordinary out the result. More real price guide for canvas Savko in the Russian auction market in our days — 120 000-180 000. That is recognizable painting with signature absurdist stories today can afford a fairly wide range of collectors: the opportune moment. And farno need to go: the current bid of the Auction, the proposed picture of Alexander Savko "Moscow Night". Bidding on the lot will end on Friday, February 9, at approximately 12:00. And at the nearest auctions will be offered and other paintings of the artist with his main themes.

Alexandra Danilova, AI
Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: cultobzor.ru, artprotest.org