In the Gallery Ridzhina an exhibition of works Ivan Chuikov «empty».

In recent years, creativity Ivan Chuikov acquired the status of the museum and received the highest evaluation by experts and collectors. Held in 1998, solo exhibition of Ivan Chuikov in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow was the first of a series of retrospectives of artists range Moscow Moscow conceptualism and introduced viewers to the works of the author of over 30 years of creativity.

The Enigma of the image itself, its genesis, its diversity is always the most inspired Chuikov as an artist. Emptiness for him - a sort of mystery, suspense, which are born out of sense. This moral purpose of the artist as it looks in this series of works - to devote themselves to the study of art as smysloporozhdayuschey practice.

At the exhibition «Empty» Gallery Ridzhina presents six new paintings from the series «Fragments» object «Apparatus for observation of emptiness and infinity», created by the author for the first time in 2001 and renovated in the year. In this work the author with the help of a complex system of double mirror reflection is avoided altogether, or rather - to reflect the emptiness. These works represent the concerns of abstract painting at the present stage and develop «minimalist» line in the works of Ivan Chuikov, one of the best representatives of the Moscow conceptual terms.

Ivan Semenovich Chuikov born May 22, 1935 in Moscow. Graduated MGHI (Moscow State Art Institute Surikov) in 1960. Participates in exhibitions of unofficial art in 1976. Ivan Chuikov works are in major museums and private collections, including the collections of the Center Pompidou (Paris), Art Museum Tsimmerli (New Jersey), Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Exhibition «Empty» last Gallery Ridzhina (4 th Syromyatnichesky trans., 1 /6) before 6 December 2008. Gallery Hours: from 12.00 to 20.00 from Tuesday to Saturday, weekend - Sunday, Monday.

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