Valentin Okorokov. The subject and the outside of the: 1920-1970-e
ARTinvestment.RU   10 июля 2008

Exhibition Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery in Tolmachev presents paintings and graphics Okorokova Valentine (1891-1974) from museum collections and private collections, thus providing the public and professionals, another «forgotten name» artist of XX centu

tragic fracture history of Russian art of XX century, the gap in the decades between the first and second avant-garde particularly exacerbated the problem of continuity in the artistic environment. The few survivors left coryphaeus art steel for subsequent generations of artists living proof that the Russian avant-garde, destroyed, or hide in the provincial reserves still exist.

exhibition hall opens in Tolmachev general public and professionals, another «forgotten name» artist of XX century - Okorokova Valentin Mikhailovich (1891-1974).

Valentin Okorokov even when he was a student at the Moscow Higher Technical School (now Bauman them. Bauman) tried himself in the «left» art, then he was lucky to meet with Vladimir Tatlin. After the third course Okorokov left school and began working in his studio. «Staying in a technical university were not lost: drawing skills, coupled with personal ability, into a mastery line and form» (V. Preobrazhenskaya). Since the beginning of the First World War, the young artist was mobilized and served under the command of Alexander Kolchak. He returned to Moscow after the revolution. Tatlin Okorokova again took to his workshop, hiding in a way White episode of his life. Shortly Tatlin Okorokova acquainted with Alexander Rodchenko and recommended Valentin Mikhailovich to practice in his studio. Okorokov interested suprematism Kazimir Malevich and was personally acquainted with him.

Rubezh 1910-1920's in the capital has been an intensive period of creative young people from numerous organizations from various cities. Feeling the bearer of a new art, full of enthusiasm, Valentin Okorokov back to their homeland in Kozlov. Artistic life in the city has recovered since he left. Founded in 1918, Sergei Gerasimov «Commune Kozlowski creative artists» was education: lectures, organized by the museum. Okorokov spoken inspiration and party «leftists» exhibitions. Comments about them in the press as praise or criticism, the artist kept in his archive. At this time he wrote and zarisovyval his thoughts about the composition of color.

Shortly after the marriage, in the mid 1920's, settled in the near Moscow Okorokov Lianozovo, graduate courses in Moscow, graphic artists, and began to work in «Uchpedgize». However, rather than plod on book illustrations, he created experimental works, not only has no income, but also dangerous. Portfolio 1930-1940's no one but the closest of friends, not seen.

For many years he was nearly deprived of communication with like-minded and in loneliness created their own world, his philosophy. If the 1920-1930's Okorokov developed specific to that time, the topic of motion in the form of limitless space, sverhskorostey, clear of gravity, it is now irrelevant in the arts enjoyed his way out through small to great, from the microcosm to Makrokosmosu, with the opening of the greatness thought, to the revelation. These ideas were relevant in 1950, when the City of graphs appeared Studio E. Belyutina. Valentin Okorokov, joining it in 1959, finally appeared in the media, which he lacked. It certainly was not a disciple. Rather, in the studios, he was a bridge between past and present, between the avant-garde. Students staged views of his works. Okorokov close to make friends with Lyutsianom Gribkov and Vera Preobrazhenskaya, Secretary Studios, which was known since 1947. That is it we owe the preservation of much of its heritage.

Exchange of ideas, exhibitions, and recognition in a professional environment - all this was extremely important for the artist. The period from 1959 to 1972, was extraordinarily fruitful. Balancing between abstraction and figurativom, Okorokov creating subtle color compositions almost mystical depth. His works have been exhibited at the exhibitions «Russian Avant-Garde» Taganka and Manezhnaya legendary exhibition of 1962. Jubilee exhibition at City of graphs in Malaya in 1966, Georgia has made a great impression on visitors and colleagues. In 1971, the studio has organized another exhibition Okorokova in honor of its 80 th anniversary. After the death of the artist views his works are arranged several times. In 1974 and 1977 were his posthumous solo exhibitions. However, the exposition has always included only the last years, and early works remained in the shadows, and very few knew of its existence.

Monographic Exhibition Valentine Okorokova in the Tretyakov Gallery for the first time showed significant works of the artist, beginning with the 1920's until the late period of a single block, exposing the individual searching for a great master in the field irrelevant.

exhibition published an illustrated catalog, which includes about 200 works Okorokova, memories of its artists V. Preobrazhenskaya and S. Nekrasova Article critics

The exhibition is open from 27 June to August 3, 2008

exhibition hall in Tolmachev: Small Tolmachevsky lane 6, Building 1

Source: www.tretyakovgallery.ru



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