The exhibition of Timur Novikov in Moscow
ARTinvestment.RU   04 июня 2008

The Moscow museum ART4. RU an exhibition of Timur Novikov. Creativity founder of St. Petersburg presented neoakademizma brand «cloth» - paintings, collages on fabric

In a Moscow Museum ART4.RU Exhibition Timura Novikov. Creativity founder of St. Petersburg presented neoakademizma brand «cloth» - paintings, collages on fabric.

About Timur Novikov (1958-2002) in St. Petersburg to speak either good or very good. He invented it all: new expressionism «new artists», neoakademizm the New Academy of Fine Arts, Sergei Bugaeva (Africa), Vladik Mamysheva-Monroe, the group of «Film» and Victor Tsoi, «Pop-Mechanics» and Sergei Kurekhin, music videos, rave, Drive , dandyism, decadence, gomoerotiku, Orthodoxy and Eurasianism ... Even «Assu» Sergei Soloviev, too, thought he. More from this detailed mythology can be found in the collection of memoirs and interviews about the artist «Timur. "The gate only the truth!" », Compiled by the non-hagiography of St. Petersburg neoakademistov Ekaterina Andreeva. But one doubt: to Timur Novikov in St. Petersburg (rather then Leningrad) was underground art, and his actual arrival began. And novikovskie «cloth», emerged in the mid 1980's, became a sort of Iron Curtain that separated one from another.

After all, what was underground? Podvig and martyrdom. And out of hiding in ordinary housing an exhibition designer, navyuchenny his imperishable creations as holy chains or ass wineskins, was a monumental figure, a tragic and heavy. But here этакий front light with a nearly weightless «cloth», artistically entering the exhibition hall on the bike in seconds and unfolding its exposition. Rag painting, in contrast to the «normal», proved, by the way, not only easily transportable, but also freely transported abroad, so that the exhibition for any Stedeliyka or the World Trade Center could bring in one case. Wrong picture (not that that without the frame - without stretcher) to all kind of saying that there is no boundaries between art and life. And bright timurovtsev company - first «new artists», then «the new academicians» - confirm this thesis own living example. In general, the lightness of the unusual, hlestakovskaya, besivshaya heavyweight recusancy.

The ease of this art was the program: ease of gesture, the ease of execution. Two pieces of fabric, while satin, though «Babushkin sitchik», as it were cross-linked to the horizon, so that the upper flap has become the sky and the lower - the sea, or tundra, or desert, and they are small icons, icons: house, boat, plane, bird, sun, herringbone, camel ... For example, children draw, cave men, primitive avant-gardists Our experience Our experience and vanguard transavangardisty - expressionist 1980's. In horizontal compositions discovered Petersburg innate sense of space, multiplied by the constructivist posters and icons metaphysics. For the apparent simplicity of the study of hidden paintings lubochnyh Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism and even academic treatise Raushenbaha of spatial constructs in painting. But hidden very carefully that any «picture-horizon» motsartovskoy looked inspired improvisation. And only a small black box, here disguised as Kaabi, but it is by itself, suggests that there occurs an ironic dialogue with Malevich.

Sometime in 1990, declaring the era of neoakademizma, Timur Novikov as easily replaced by aesthetics and neoavangardistsky rag poster has become a conservative decadent banners under which he - in a new way vested in the continuing black frock-coat Teachers with okladistoy beard, and with sticks in a cylinder - preached a return to the classics and eternal values. At gold brocade cloth reigned Apollo, disregarding «Red Square». Again timurovskie collages - with pictures of Oscar Wilde, cupids, Apollo, Russian Orthodox saints and emperors in the frame of the gold lace on top of luxury «Indian cucumber» - became a red cloth, but this time for progressive leaders of modern art. What once again discovered the secret of this relationship with the avant-garde muletoy matador as evidenced even in the times of «Red Square» and yellow jackets Mayakovski.

The exhibition will run until 30 June 2008.

Source: www.kommersant.ru , ART4. RU