In Moscow «New Manezh» Art Fair takes place painting, drawing, sculpture and crafts «Artesaniya»
ARTinvestment.RU   03 октября 2008

From 1 to 5 October «New Manezh» Fair «Artesaniya» interesting projects of contemporary artists, as well as the work of Boris Sveshnikov, V. Nemukhin, V. Yakovlev, A. Zverev, I. Mayorov, MG TIME-Block, masters of socialist realism

From 1 to 5 October in Moscow «New Manezh» Art Fair takes place painting, drawing, sculpture and crafts «Artesaniya».

Art Fair «Artesaniya» united under one roof, all kinds of arts - from painting and drawing to pieces of glass, metal, ceramics and porcelain. Galleries, art associations and workshops represent a wide audience a work of art, different in style and time frame, but united by a serious attitude to art as to the artistic craft.

Today, the enterprise of its kind used successfully in many countries around the world from the Old to the New World, calling for their banners functional status of masters in the broadest sense, which are all participants in the artistic process. Idea Fair «Artesaniya», while the harmless of the task, revealing a lot of questions dictated by our artistic life. What options Crafts and professionalism in today's art world, whether they are applicable only to the traditional arts, and what role they play for the art market, a collector? The notion of «craft artist» suffered a double blow: on the one hand, the actual art on the other - expansion of cheap copies, and design objects, flooded the market, that is, in fact, is a part of one process - the disappearance of the installation at the timeless quality of art. A new highlight key points in the perception of the craft and professionalism, reducing his bar.

There are well-known Moscow galleries and individual artists. The exhibition can be viewed and applied arts, and a large number of paintings and graphics, for which the ownership of technology skill, craft painter and graphics above many other trends in contemporary art, fashion art epatazh.

One of the special projects Fairs - draft Helena Muhanovoy «L». This classic pastels on the flower theme. But all the same color Muhanovoy - this is not quite ordinary portraits of flowers. In understanding that there are flowers and what they draw, the painter Helen Muhanova the view of Charles Lynne, creator of the systematics of plants. World Color permeated sexuality, thought Linney. Tychinochnye anthers scientist compared with testis, neb pounder - in the vulva, column - with the vagina. «Bell - this bed - wrote Linney - in which the pistil and stamen ally».
L - the main character of nature. She appeared in the names of 7 700 plants and 4 400 animals, described and systematized personally Lynne.
Sexual undertones flower of life for Helen Muhanovoy obvious. Its flowers are in mental disarray - they are a metaphor for passion. Yet Helen remained chaste Russian artist and gives the viewer a chance to speculation the details of the flower. Muhanova borrowed from the pop-art principle of increasing detail. Her visual apparatus is arranged as a microscope: it develops into a comprehensive picture of a trifle. Floral leaf streak, she draws is so large, as far as pastels.

Gallery ART RA introduced in the Art Fair «Artesaniya» Three projects in the three traditional types of art - painting, drawing, arts and crafts. For all the stylistic polarity, the authors brings their own masterly craft and a desire to open a new possibility of the existence of a tradition.

Projects Vladislav Koval «T-Art» and «Yuvelirizmy» (the author's terminology). «T-Art» - transformed, changing painting. This mnogochastnye composition comprising from four to twelve cloths. Each of them can be displayed individually, but each mnogochastnaya composition may be presented as one large canvas. They can be rotated 90 degrees, you can create triptychs, kvartbloki, stelae, friezes. The term «T-Arts» in tune with the theater where the director serves the viewer, and only when the product becomes the active participation of the relative completeness. In his works always remains the main element of the game, which, in essence, is the basic idea of Art actual.
«Yuvelirizmy» V. Koval - the reaction of the artist at the time due to the extinction of Philately. Postage stamp dictated by the parameters of his «Yuvelirizmov» - paintings on canvas size not more than 4 inches from the symbolic or historical themes. In contrast to the brand they can live in the interior, they can be seen in the magnifying glass, like a stamp, you can collect. From the level required (postage stamp), the artist translates the object in the level of luxury.

«Embroidered project» A. Scherbakova. The project is based on the sculptor. A Scherbakova - virtuoso own sewing equipment Russian monastery dating back to the XIV century, the so-called «division in embroidery». However, this does not replicas of antique designs. This new reading of a forgotten tradition. A professional artist, but rather subconsciously than consciously, Synthesizing language Permian «animal style», Oceania style, Maya and Aztecs, ancient heritage and our own observations of living - it creates a language in which attraction to plane solutions and the simplicity of basic volumetric forms are combined with intensity of ornamental and visual imagination, the naive but powerful images of the expression, freedom and richness of rhythm.

Stanislav Azarov presents a graphic series of etchings in the technique of «City of elephants» - the embodiment of his own myth. The myth of the city, which are very high technology, so its residents can gather for an elephant, airplane factories, gardens, railway station, bus - a word, a sort of biological structures, subordinate the needs of people (in those days, talk of Bioengineering, bioindustrii just looming on the horizon ). Each page reveals a new series of conflicts in this story. While maintaining its charming fantasy, «City of elephants» over the years become increasingly dramatic, and fascinate the viewer to scratch strokes needle sharp expressive lines and troubled spots coined world, who is the real issue.

New Project association «Sunny Square» is called « taste and aftertaste». When we degustiruem meal or glass of wine, we feel their taste and aftertaste. Like tasting, we feel the flavor and aftertaste of any life situation. Also in the painting: Sergei Radyuk, Ludmila Blokhina, Valeriy Fomichev feel taste and aftertaste creation of the work and show the process of writing, painting: zagruntovanny canvas, podmalevok and finished product.

Gallery «Zero» shows project «blind persons Pushkin» . The famous poet and songwriter Nahum Olev , author of songs «33 cows», «Half a year bad weather», and now a successful gallery, together with the artists Mikhail Yermolov published a book of drawings and poems under the ironic title, the theme of which -- modern poet and his muse. At «Artesanii» will be sold as original pieces, and book rarities.

Gallery East Meets West Gallery Tatiana Paleevoy opens exhibit Lilies Balasanovoy and Catherine Kudriavtseva «The Way of Life» . Artworks Lilies Balasanovoy - light, air collages connection nesoedinimogo, associative story about feelings, thoughts, experiences, reflexes. Unusual chosen technique. The range of texture and volume created by the unique combination of several types of linen, handmade paper of different density and such an unexpected and intractable material like organza. Parts of the picture intentionally connected to the living like a thread - free hand stitch, which guessed that the unique rhythm of the old pattern, then trace bezyskusny darning needle. It uses the finest silk threads, cords, jute and linen rope, painted by hand, is fastened in the nodes and forming an unusual surface.

The exhibition presents works of masters of the 1960's and 1980's Boris Sveshnikov , Anatoly Zverev , Vladimir Yakovlev , Vladimir Nemukhin , as well as remarkable graphs Igor Mayorova and Marina TIME-Block - the heirs of traditions of the Silver Age.

Petersburg gallery «arch» for the first time in Moscow show an interesting legacy of the painter and theater artist Vladimir Saxon . When the Country Council notes the 70 th anniversary of the revolution, Leningrad painter Vladimir Saxon submitted to the exhibition is not a picture, praised the chiefs, and the canvas ... with burdock, and said: «I do feel the revolution».

Soviet Painting Gallery «XX Century» exhibits a more traditional models of socialist realism from the provincial centers of Russia.

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