Graphics Dmitry Lion in ART4.RU
ARTinvestment.RU   12 сентября 2007

C 10 August to 10 September 2007, at the Museum of modern art ART4.ru the exhibition of graphic works Sixties Dmitriy Lyon (1925-1993), which were presented previously shown not work 1950 - 1990.

C on 10 August to 10 September 2007 at the Museum of modern art ART4.ru the exhibition of graphic works Sixties Dmitriy Lyon (1925-1993), which were presented previously shown not work 1950 - 1990 from the private collection of the museum owner Igor Markina.

The familiar fate is already in the post-Soviet period have known Tretyakov, catalogs, gallery shows. A lifetime artist almost had no opportunities officially billed. First «personalka» took place in 1990 when the artist was 65 years old. The audience may know his work well, for the only published in Soviet times, an illustrated book «Taipa» Herman Melville (1967). Next - «Lyrics» Ai Valeria Catullo was published in 1989, already in the restructuring. Nevertheless, creativity Dmitry Lyons knew and loved collectors: it includes lists of many major collections, including the collection of James and Candy Bar-Gera.

Dmitry Lyon Born in Kaluga, the family lawyer, was a war of Eagle in the 1943-meters to the Far East in 1952-m-m in 1958 graduated from Moscow Printing Institute - hotbed of post-war dissent. Lyon towards political and protest parties «another art», while remaining predominantly «silent art», focused on solving their own artistic goals.

enough to see several pieces of Lyon, in order not to doubt God's Iskra. It is no coincidence that it was called «white masters»: natural color of the sheet, he called himself ably in the allies, used as construction material, enclosing it in the form of a black stroke. Skill Lyon particularly evident in minimalistichnoy schedule, when a composite image formed in a few tight-fisted, but the precise stroke. Absolutely no detail or, conversely, some minor strokes Lyon could create a completely finished product, where each new point would have frankly superfluous.

In his work is appreciated not only technique and distinctive style, but also the philosophy of the drawing. Designer lifelong appealed to biblical subjects, the Holocaust in his works were such series as «The destinies of Russian poets», «Three Rembrandt life», «bless reaching». His capacity to work on a favorite book illustration remained largely realized - perhaps not least because of an innovative approach: Lyon saying that the book's illustrator «must not read the author», refusing to subordinate his own view of formal canvas plot and settled images. If so, it is clear that that was acceptable to experiment creatively, this view in terms of mass of mass media could not meet with understanding editors. What, in general, and understandable. Towards a new graphic reading of literary works (illustration, the feeling of the text), the artist went a step further - to create graphic text, in which the figure should not subordinate the role of illustration, text, and its foundations. But even in the figurative, and is quite understandable illustrations Lyons felt his philosophical installation: Figure - The model of the universe, white - combines spiritual, draw - why? The ideas and creativity of Lyon - a reason to once again recall the criterion «shestidesyatnichestva», defined as a critic Andrei Kovalev as a desire to fit in a single work the entire world. Drawing - understand. This is also a Lion.

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