Lot weeks. Set "Suprematist pastoral" by Pavel Pepperstein
ARTinvestment.RU   07 августа 2018

"Suprema" stick to the Bacchante, Nude woman running, holding in his hands a red triangle, lady escapes from the arms of a gentleman to touch the red circle... At the auction AI — what-то desperate absurdist eclectic, embodied in China

Two cups, a pair of saucers, teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug. Seemingly ordinary tea set tete-а-тет, for two. But you should look — tea want. On porcelain wall going God-те. Not always dressed cowherd boys and ladies of the XVII century face and build relationships with Suprematist pervasively 1910-х. Get them at-разному: timid (lady concerning red circle), aggressive (naked, running away with a red square), the mysterious (peek-a-Boo from-за black square). What's going on?

Yes, exactly the way it intended. This clash of two worlds: the product of the mass taste of nineteenth-century intellectual avant-garde of the early XX. However, it is not only a conceptualist "joke" (as he likes to say Ilya Kabakov — each artist's father and the author himself), and a philosophical message.

Even more — Manifesto.

Its text was written by Pavel Pepperstein in 2011 in Paris. In it the artist notes that Suprematist porcelain originated from the idea that "the future appears where all marked with the signs of the future. The intention "to mark supremae" (Malevich) subjects of collective life — event, conceived as an almost magical impact on the minds of the masses — as a result, has created a porcelain collection and sets that are in the collection of museums and of rich people, while the masses at the-прежнему "mark" their cups and saucers with images of flowers, shepherdesses, cocks and hearts". And then: "...to be a red triangle or black square was able to influence the consciousness of the masses, they have to embrace the cowgirl in lace dress or passionately kissing the rosy-cheeked Cupid. Conversely, below a softening influence on the minds of the rich, who imagine themselves the elite, the need for such lures as the red triangle or a black square to a progressive sauce in their hardened souls were able to get the desired shepherdess, gardens, kisses, hearts, fauns, and fragments of Doric columns (probably Ionian)".

Here and drank a Cup of tea, though?

That is the meaning of "Suprematist pastoral" — is not so much a joke, but the intellectual guerrilla RAID, a philosophical experiment. This porcelain offers the public two injections. One is able to regain emotional balance snobs, which is through the power of "eat" fashion Suprematism when soul asks of the ladies in crinolines and accommodating shepherdesses. And the second is designed to encourage the bourgeois way of life, to stir up the comfortable world of the primitive "beautiful" and to offer his followers some-то complications — "stimulating odorabstractions" and "adheres to the Suprema".

From Pepperstein it would be strange to expect-то sibling. Complex philosophical and psychedelic weave absurd stories, worlds of the future — here he is as a fish in water. The future founder of the group "Inspection "Medical hermeneutics"" was born in 1966 in the family of artist-шестидесятника Viktor Pivovarov. This is his real name. And Pepperstein — alias, after a character Peperkorn philosophical novel by Thomas Mann "the Magic mountain". His childhood was filled with friends of his father, artists circle "Sretensky Boulevard" — Kabakov, Yankilevsky, Steinberg and others In the late Soviet Union Pepperstein worked in the magazine "Funny pictures", and in Detgiz. With Kabakov in 1989, together, they even illustrated the book, and later they had several joint exhibitions. Pepperstein — successful writer, author of about 10 books. His most famous novel — "Mifogennaja love of castes", the first volume of which was written with fellow "Medgermenevtika" Sergei Anufriev. Pepperstein writes poetry, raps, makes dresses, even as-то took to the catwalk. But first and foremost, we know him as a successful and daring artist capable of crossing ideological red lines. He — a favorite of collectors, is included in top-100 the most expensive Russian artists of contemporary art, records — $27 000-37 000, his paintings and drawings are sold at major auctions around the world, including Sotheby's and Phillips. But his porcelain at the auction have never been exhibited. Set "Suprematist pastoral" AI — the first such case.

Direct sales is not unique, at prices clearly attached to nothing. But the market in General indirect targets there are. First sale of the lottery porcelain of the sixties. For example, plates, sugar bowls and other porcelain, Vladimir Nemukhin — is today about $1 000-1 500 per item. Plates Yankylevsky too, in the neighborhood of $1 500. Porcelain Plast Ilya Kabakov — roughly $1 500-1 700. Dish Viktor Pivovarov — about the same. Apart from the name, a lot depends on the circulation (i.e., rarity, uniqueness) and complexity. For example, porcelain, sculptures, vases and complicated shape dishes Oleg Tselkova sold in the us between $4 000-10 000. As for suprematistskie-пасторального service Pepperstein, if we had to estimate AI, I would intuitively guided to the area of $3 000–$4 000. But the estimate, remember, we have — the price depends on the actual situation on the auction.

Presents a service — bright, philosophical, important, one of only two series Paul Pepperstein in ceramics. So, in the directory "Porcelain sixties" (there Pepperstein compilers runs under the heading "Postretirement") published a series of seven plates "Angels characters", released in an edition of 30 copies in 2008. There is "the angel of the Black square", "the Angels of the mandala", "the angel of the revolution", "the angel of the dollar" and other stories. And even those collectors who decide to look at the porcelain former members of the "Medical hermeneutics" (the inspection was closed in 2001), implying that the series of plates is and Sergei Anufriev. However, that's another story.

in the meantime, before 12:00 on Friday, 10 August 2018, at our auction — "Suprematist pastoral" by Pavel Pepperstein. Instance, 27 out of 30. Seven items, catalogue, nadglazurnayapainting the items is signed with the initials p. P., production Villeroy & Boch (Germany), 2010.

In.B., AI

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