Artist of the week: Vladimir lyubarov
ARTinvestment.RU   16 января 2020

Love of life, no matter how it might sound corny and cliche, is the basis lobanovskogo creativity. Lubarovska — antithesis of basarabeni if you want

That could push to move to a remote village successful and realized (known Illustrator, co-founder of the first private publishers) in General a person who has lived all his life in the capital city? Midlife crisis coupled with a social crisis? Emotional burnout? In the case with Lubarova —, it's more like the process of gaining the promised land. Gaining through the love of life...

And it is through love opens lyubarov this new planet, a new universe, met with its inhabitants, can not breathe and to see. Together with local residents, he kind of helps versatile tool-язык — alcohol "bottle." But it's not drinking — is a tool of knowledge, disclosure of the soul, as Erofeev.

What was a planet "Peremilovo" at the time of "landing"? As he says lyubarov, it was "what is-то terribly good village. I'm such friendly people, sincere have never seen in my life. Paradise turns out to be achievable". Promised land, free from television, Commerce, temptations and lies, where is-то on the border of the Vladimir and Yaroslavl regions, between reality and fantasy; filled with grotesque and humour, very native, but infinitely far.

as a result of immersion, observation and accumulated emotions born of his first series of works — "Village Peremilovo" and "Pinch", is full of mythological, narrative, lubok "pictures" that tell us about the philosophy of rural life, its characters and customs...

Here to see more literary, publishing past the author's tendency to illustrate: "My pictures — in the Russian lubok: there, the artist writes a novel and pretends it is a small scene". Pictures do get bast — violation of the perspectives, proportions, rich in detail.

set design paintings Lyubarova rich, and every resourceful the viewer easily recognizes her destination: if flying a Jew, of course — Chagall. If the beautiful women that lubarovska-то busy, then surely — Tyshler. And so on. And the artist responds with a smile: "Well, fly, what?" — and says: "Chagall — is a great artist, and if I dare to compare myself to him, only that we're close in a joyful perception of the world. For both of us the world — grace, not test... But plastically we are totally different. And my people fly like Chagall, “the lifting force” they are different. Chagall — a light artist, he has Mozart's Outlook on life. He easily throws his talent, he has a light quick stroke. I have — very careful study of details, I am a long time poring over every story".

What happened next? Again, quoting Lyubarova, you can see that a couple of decades of wild capitalism came first to the vicinity of the planet (Pereslavl, etc.), and then its harmful traits became visible in the village. The aesthetics of the village dies, it kills commercialization, there is symmetry, simplification, siding.

lyubarov reacted to this full immersion in the mythmaking — began to write short stories-небылицы, a new visualthe work is not quite narrative, and many heroes of his works have already moved to another world, and the new does not match the spiritual needs. For example, one of the last series — "Year of the theatre in the village of Peremilovo" — is composed of pictures on which the heroes of the classics are immersed in your favorite author sets.

As it often happens with us, we don't notice anything beyond their own noses. And to our hero's first commercial success came not in Russia but in the West, where the Genesis of the "Russian heartland" could appreciate, and was soon followed by exhibitions of works Lyubarova in Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland. On the basis of his "village" series in the UK was published in the book "Russian Proverbs", and a year later it was republished in the United States.

And only after that the success came in Russia. Over the past fifteen years held a personal exhibition Lyubarova in the Tretyakov gallery, the Russian Museum, the Central house of the artist, the Arena and the capital's galleries.

Alexei Smirnov, specifically for AI