Well-known Russian artist Erik Bulatov decided to congratulate the capital with the 865-th anniversary and gave her his new work "The best city of the Earth", which will be the emblem of the day

Erik Bulatov The best city of the earth. 2012
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Character City Day was created in 2012 one of the great Russian artists of the twentieth century - Erik Bulatov . It is a sign of a new quality of urban festival, which now becomes the concentration of the best cultural events of the year. Annual Day of the City changed its format: from the galleries, museums, concert halls, theaters and cinemas, books, art studios of the pilot goes out to the streets of Moscow and change its appearance.

work Bulatov - precedent in Russian history, when the symbol of the City Day provides not a designer, a famous artist. And it's not just a brilliant corporate identity, but a profound work of art.

work performed in the classical manner to the spatial games Bulatov poster font viewer projects onto the main idea of ​​the artist about the capital - "The Best city ​​of the earth. " This quote from a song by Muslim Magomaev has become the motto of 865-year anniversary of Moscow, which will be celebrated on September 1-2.

«In the words themselves have a sense of humor, referring to the Soviet order as a positive approach, but the text Located in perspective, in a recognizable bulatovskom opening dynamics of the text. Horizontally placed words "BEST" and "EARTH" pave the aspirations of the corridor, and the goal - "CITY". No recognizable tourism image silhouettes like the historic buildings, there is no word "Moscow", it is an assertion - a perspective, the goal of all Muscovites. Make it so that whoever sees the statement "THE BEST CITY OF THE EARTH", I thought it was about Moscow. And the new format of the City Day will do to our city was so "- said the project commissioner of the city Day Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich.

Character City Day of Eric Bulatov will not only attend the formal carriers of the holiday, but will also be executed as an icon that Muscovites will be able to get on the streets September 1 and 2.

Character City Day, Eric Bulatov created without fee - a gift Moscow.

Erik Bulatov - fotorealist artist, one of the founders of the Sots Art - directions in the "anti-Soviet" art, combine the interests of Western pop art to the commonplace, everyday, and mass product (such as the worship of a bottle of Coca- Cola and Campbell's soup cans for Andy Warhol) and the deconstruction of the visual language of totalitarianism.

His work is represented in the famous museums of modern and classical art - in particular, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum Ludwig, Maillol Museum, Zimmerli Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery.

One of the discoveries in Bulatov's paintings - the dynamic text, the word is not adhering to the plane of the sheet, but breaking through it. At work, "Input - no entry" (1994-1995, a collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris), two inscriptions "Enter", going to run away and create a corridor, crossed the red banning the words "No Entry". In the classical works of Bulatov's almost always a "gap between word and deed." The artist gives us hope, playing with the text, find themselves in an illusory space of 3D - «The phrase" No Entry "is placed in such a way that the end of the first word -" yes "- is in the center of the composition, which completely negates the ban. He was opposed to the will, desire, a dream, "- writes art historian Bertrand Lorca.

One of the most significant of his works -" Horizon "(1971, avant-garde art collection of the Museum), where men and women walking along the beach to the sandy shore surf, do not overlook the fact that the horizon from edge to edge band crossed the red carpet. Ultimate dream is open a dusty pile of bureaucracy.

Bulatov is one of the most expensive contemporary Russian artists at Phillips de Pury auction of the work, "The Soviet Space" went for $ 1.6 million, and two paintings were sold for 1 million for each.

in 2013, marking the 80th anniversary of Eric Bulatov, in Moscow planned for a large retrospective of the artist, now living in Paris, but still feeling in the soul of a Muscovite.

Source : mosdepkultura.ru