He died-шестидесятник Yuri Zlotnikov
ARTinvestment.RU   26 сентября 2016

The inventor of the innovative "signal painting" has died at 87-м year of life

Yuri Zlotnikov — artist from the first pages of the reference book "Other art", from the section devoted to the events of 1956, since the beginning of the "thaw". 1956-й — is the year when exonerated of Boris Sveshnikov, Grandfather-Кропивницкого, Hulot Sooster, when a mathematician slepyan brings to Moscow the paintings Tsalkova, when the Smith Bridge, 20, are exhibited by young sculptor Ernst Neizvestny and the trio Siddur — Lemport — Silis. Just in the academic community began to gently rehabilitate plastic values. But at the same time the young artist Yuri Zlotnikov is developing what-то quite so cosmic and incomprehensible — "signal system" — innovative form of psycho-physiological abstraction, graphically fixing biopulses.

the Plastic opening in the schedule Zlotnikov made, inspired by the ideas of his friends-ученых. He was a "lyricist" in the circle "physicists". Despite the "matematicheski" his abstractions, he was not a mathematician, as his friend slepyan, but only immersed in the subject of Humanities. Graceful patterns and theorems Zlotnikov perceived mostly poetically, on an emotional level. And it wasn't just math. The "traffic light system" appeared as a philosophical understanding of a whole tangle of primary sources: laws of mathematics, physiology, Cybernetics, psychology, and the theory of currents.

the Artist that exists in the system of victorious socialist realism, definitely needed a daring and tenacity, to not take found in youth. But Zlotnikov was not a conformist in the political sense of the word. He belonged to informal art groups, participated in the devastated exhibitions, was a loner. 42 years Zlotnikov became a member of Moscow Union of artists, worked on assignments, engaged in the design of buildings and production sites, if required, and the construction of communism drew. In addition to abstraction, his retrospectives you can see the bright expressionist work and quite vigorous figurative painting full of motion, that he particularly appreciated. But the main and most important contribution to the art and have remained invented in 25 years, "signal painting" — mysterious pulses described geometric shapes and signs. That is what he will be remembered.

Zlotnikova lucky to wait when the lives of his retrospective exhibitions in major museums of the country — from the Russian Museum to the Museum. In the last 10 years several important exhibitions. major place in 2015. Zlotnikov could say what he wanted. Felt so valuable at the end of life's rays of heat of the audience and academic recognition. We can say that in a professional sense Yuri Savelievich had to spend at-людски, with all the honors. As it should be.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

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AI: the Exhibition Yuri Zlotnikov in the Gallery of arts Zurab Tsereteli;
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Arched: Yuri Zlotnikov: "I've always been a little separately";
AI: Zlotnikov, Y. S. (1930-2016). Of work and rates.