Leon Tyutyundzhyana Exhibition opens today at the gallery «PROUNI»
ARTinvestment.RU   21 мая 2008

The gallery «PROUNI» Today opens exhibition graphics, paintings and reliefs of Leon Tyutyundzhyana (1905-1968).

Gallery «PROUNI»
Center for Contemporary Art «Winery»
4 th Syromyatnichesky pereulok, 1 /6
Phone: (495) 916-09 -- 00
21 May - 28 June

The gallery «PROUNI» Today opens exhibition graphics, paintings and reliefs of Leon Tyutyundzhyana (1905-1968). Exhibition Project «Test Rorshaha» represents the creation of Leon Tyutyundzhyana, elegant and fine artist, one of the brightest representatives of the Paris School of the early 1930's. Meanwhile, the name of the artist in Russia is almost unknown, and this is his first personal exhibition in Moscow.

Renowned French Armenian artist Tyutyundzhyan Leon was born in 1905 in Amasya (Turkey). He came from an educated family and the Armenian from childhood began to paint. Trying to save his son from the mass pogroms, and the imminent death of Leon's mother put him on an American ship in the number of orphans - so Tyutyundzhyan appeared in a children's orphanage in Loutraki (Greece), and then in the monastery of San Lazzaro in Venice. When Leon was 17 years old, he settled in Paris where in 1923 began to attend a workshop Ervandla Kochar, who introduced him to cubism of Picasso and other famous artists. In 1929, Tyutyundzhyan serious passion for surrealism and came to a group of artists, along with Van Duysburom, Karslundom and Gelion. Already next year he took part in the exhibition together with Arpom, Kalderom and Giacometti. «The most mysterious and profound surrealist», - so later otzavetsya it Gelion.

Tyutyundzhyan worked in various artistic styles, but the subtlety and surprising figurative language peculiar to all his works: from expressionism to abstraction and surrealism.

interest in creativity Tyutyundzhyana erupted with renewed strength after the death of the artist when his work began to gather well-known Parisian gallery Alan Le Gayyar. Seventy paintings from his personal collection he brought to Moscow now.

Paris gallery Alan Le Gayyar gathers paintings Leon Tyutyundzhyana not for money but for the sake of art. Do Tyutyundzhyana there was not a personal exhibition. The artist exhibited along with Picasso, Miro, Mondrianom. For example, a watercolor of 1926 established the technique nakapyvaniya. For several years Tyutyundzhyan ahead of his colleagues on the shop. «Tyutyundzhyan first began to use automated technology», - noted art critic Catherine Inozemtsev. All year round, she studied art Tyutyundzhyana of reproduction, and now finally it is time to turn to the originals. The exhibition includes watercolors, paintings, reliefs, drawings. These works were created during the artist from 1926 through 1930.

artist died in 1968 at the age of 63 years. Interested in painting masters emerged in Europe shortly after his death, but the general public, his art is still little known.

Title of the project «Test Rorshaha» send us to the developed in 1921 by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorshahom new method Psychodiagnostics personality, routinely practiced psychology and psychiatry called «test Rorshaha». The essence of the method is that the subject is invited to interpret the ten symmetrical about the axis of a color stain (blot) analysis of free associations, images, ideas arising from the person with a cursory glance at these spots, reveals the particular identity and to establish certain regularities of mental development. In the role of color spots in the exhibition are works Tyutyundzhyana, and the viewer is invited to try to understand yourself, Looking at these works.

Sources: www.tvkultura.ru , www.gif.ru , www.proungallery.ru