Up to 24 June 2007 at the premises of Cultural Foundation «Catherine» (Kuznetsky Bridge St., 21 / 5, www.ekaterina-fondation.ru) last personal exhibition of Vladimir Yankylevsky «Moment of Eternity», prepared jointly with the Russian Foundation Museum

Up to 24 June 2007 at the premises of Cultural Foundation «Catherine» (Kuznetsky Bridge St., 21 /5, www.ekaterina-fondation.ru ) last personal exhibition of Vladimir Yankylevsky «Moment of Eternity», prepared jointly with the Russian Foundation Museum. The exhibition, which came at the opening and the artist, from private and museum collections assembled for more than 70 works created since the beginning of 1960 to the present day.

Yankilevsky Vladimir (b. 1938) - one of the leading innovators in the non-post-war art, the author of the original plastic language, in creative research is well ahead of its time. Looking at the graphics, beautiful compositions and reliefs Yankylevsky, it is difficult to imagine that this is an artist from the 1960's, so his modern ideas and resources. And so brave its candid artistic images, which in an era of ideological totalitarianism demanded some civil courage.

Perhaps the original triptychs and pentaptihi created since the beginning of 1960 - is the best art form Yankylevsky, which has long been known technique was perfect instrument for expressing the author's philosophy of unity of femininity (in his triptych illustrates the usual left-hand side), masculinity (or «self», the right-hand side) and space-universe (the universe, eternity - the middle). In the triptych of women's desire for an image of stability, the center is offset by the comprehensive space dynamic male image - and this is just one of many philosophical subtext of Yankylevsky.

Today, interest in creativity Yankylevsky in Russia is high as ever, and he will continue to grow. His works have recently appeared frequently on the subject and the collection of contemporary art exhibitions. It's amazing, but, judging by the sharpness of reviews, often the artist is not understood how far the 1960's.

In fact, painting and graphics Yankylevsky require a known training audience - the man «street» his expressive songs still seem epatazhem. 1970 brought about a series «The anatomy of emotions», «Sodom and Gomorrah», «City-Masks», the population of their social mutants losing touch with reality, repulsive robots (once they were women?), The victims of scientific technological progress, the characters, immersed in the realm of absurdity. Now there are things and more relaxed, but Yankilevsky worked when the key to prosperity (and the physical liberty) was the artist's commitment to only the ideas of socialist realism, and philosophical search for self and identity can be risky at best a source of trouble.

Vladimir Yankilevsky participated in most of the most significant group of impressions «another art», including an exhibition of 1962 in Manezh on the 30 th anniversary MOSHa, and an exhibition in 1975 in Hall VDNKh «Beekeeping».

In 1989, Yankilevsky left Russia and continued to work abroad. The best thing the artist «spread» of museum collections and private collections around the world. The works represented in the Tretyakov Gallery, Paris' Pompidou Center, the American Museum of Tsimmerli, German Museum Ludwig in other museums around the world.

Prices of medium composition artists 1980 auctions in the world to 50 thousand dollars. This is yet. His works are currently severely underestimated the market, so their investment potential to be extremely high. In the medium term «Direktor Info» predicts price rise significantly faster than the market. In the coming year and a half the price of his paintings and compositions of objects may enter the range of 120-200 thousand dollars.

From July 12 to August 31, the exposition «Moment of Eternity» will be shown in the Marble Palace at the State Russian Museum.

Source: www.ekaterina-fondation.ru , www.sothebys.com