For the first time in the Auction AI. The Painter Mikhail Romadin
ARTinvestment.RU   04 сентября 2017

Mikhail Romadin designed the original optics, but also a new philosophy of interaction of fine art with the movie. The name of the artist associated with the "Solaris" by Tarkovsky, "First teacher" Andron Konchalovsky and other masterpieces of the thaw

Mikhail Romadin (1940-2012) – the son of the famous landscape painter Nicholas romadina, first of vhutemasovtsev, a student of Falk and Konchalovsky, and then academician, laureate of the Stalin and Lenin prizes, cavalier of the orders of Lenin and red banner of Labor. It is not surprising that rejection of the son-художника from sure career on the path of socialist realism became Romadin-старшего real blow, and for a-то time even led to their break up. But honestly: what kind of "Volga – Russian river" (the so-called awards in the picturesque cycle of the father), when the country came the "thaw" @- the heyday of theater, film, time of bold experiments and long-awaited for a creative person the ability to get to the seeker and the thinking viewer.

23-летнему Michael Romadina fantastically lucky with time and circumstances. He, a graduate of the art faculty of VGIK (the sound graduated in 1963), had the good fortune to work with the best Directors of his time who were on top form. Valentin Pluchek, he worked on an avant-garde performance "Terkin in the next world" in the Theater of Satire (Papanova in the title role). Nicholas Okhlopkova – over "Faust" by Goethe. With Andron Konchalovsky they worked on the film "the First teacher" (1963-1964) based on the novel by Chinghiz Aitmatov (the debut work of Mikhalkov-Кончаловского became the prize-winner of international film festivals). Later the same Director worked on the sound "Noble nest" and put on the shelf the film "the Story of Asya Klacina who loved, but not married".

But perhaps the main professional luck Michael romadina in the movie is the work with Andrey Tarkovsky on "Solaris". "Solaris" was one of the projects, which significantly changed the role of the artist. The film marked the transition from a routine storyboards and craft works of the artist on the sketches towards the development of the concept and partly of co-authorship in the realization of artistic ideas. And the possibilities for experiments in the project were opened really wide. Tarkovsky in "Solaris" were interested not in fiction, not technology, not the nuances and scientific-технического progress and evolution of the mission of man in a changing world, the impact of the progress of morality. So what-то moment Romadin with Tarkovsky considered the idea is to give in "Solaris" from a futuristic space environment and to provide the interior of the station as the apartment of Moscow intelligentsia. Or less radical option is to fill the metal corridors of space station elements of the earth's landscape, for example, "Mat" sand on the floor. And not only. So, on one of the early sketches for "Solaris" you can see that the texture of the walls at the station mimics log walls of the hut – like village house Romadina. When you see it, you realize how differently might look like a Tarkovsky movie. However, whatever it was, then the Directors all-таки abandoned the most radical ideas. Hut in space as well as apartmentintellectual, too much in conflict with the literary basis. But the humanistic metaphor, coined in the early 1970-х in Russia, still in the end turned out to be popular. However, after 40 years. And not our own, and Hollywood filmmakers.

In the late 1970-х mid – 1980-х sound has developed several pictorial and graphic series related to the work of Andrei Platonov, made sketches for the unrealized screenplay of the legendary Gennady Shpalikov, illustrated book "lion with a white beard" his friend Tonino Guerra. Today many of these works are in museums and private collections.

In 1980-х – early 2000-х in the artist there are more "panoramic" pictures with the "dome" perspective, as if taken by lens type "fish eye". Another signature technique of the artist's work – the fullness of his works a huge number of carefully drawn items – remains unchanged. It's part of the notorious "textured greed" inherent in the artist since childhood. Moreover, the items romadina performed, often very specific artistic challenge – create a cycle, set the dynamics. In the album-монографии "Mikhail Romadin," published in 2004, provides a fairly accurate opinion of Ilya Kabakov about the nature of creative style romadina: "Your art – like vial, filled with some-то phantoms. All the time there is wildness". Really catches the eye is that the area of the work romadina usually filled to the limit of objects @- phones, books, palettes, pictures in frames, pictures on the walls. And all things that create "bubbling", usually written with painstaking detail, precisely up to the portrait similarity.

Today, the works of Mikhail romadina are GTG, GIM, Museum of cinema, the branches of the Museum Ludwig in numerous private collections. The artist was the subject of several monographs. In 2004 saw the light the book of Mikhail romadina "hammer". the artist, in particular, shared memories of Gennady Shpalikov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra, as well as the friends of father – artists Paul Corina and Pavel Kuznetsov.

What can we say about the auction market of works of Mikhail Romadin? The artist's work many times was sold both in Russia and abroad (mostly in France), but, nevertheless, this market is still in its formative stages. The peak sales were in 2005-2008 years, when the price of the artist's works reached a maximum value of $4000-8000. After the artist's death in 2012, his works have become rare to appear at auction. So now is a good time. Offered AI Auction painting "the Eye" @- thing showy, recognizable, and besides contains a favorite technique of the artist. Please note that the pupil lendsthe natural dome-term, reflected self-portrait romadina. It is also important that it is 1973 – the most valuable period of work on "Solaris".

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: Michael Romadin. Moscow. Publisher White city. 2004. The author of the text – I. Svetlov.