From 12 to 28 December will take place at the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition of graphic works by Mikhail Shvartsman

Today, in the Tretyakov Gallery (Exhibition Hall in Tolmachev) opens the first museum project, which as master schedules Mikhail Shvartsman -- one of the leaders of Soviet unofficial art 1960-1980's, the author of ieratizma (from Greek. hieratikos - sacerdotal). Addressed to the complex philosophical and religious aspects of life art Shvartsman said the search for a universal spiritual substance, the desire to go through the plastic formotvorchestvo to primary underpinning of the external shell of life.

Creativity Mikhail M. Shvartsman (1926-1997) is still little known to a wide audience. Only in 1994 the first solo exhibition Shvartsman in the Tretyakov Gallery opened a public master, whose name by then was a legend of the Moscow underground. Through an exhibition dedicated graphic heritage Shvartsman, the organizers of the project to remember that first and foremost an artist wanted to show their paintings, and only after - the schedule. However, works on paper not only reveals easy-to-understand world-cloths ieratur Schwarzman, but also reflect his gift monumentalista and are themselves high sample graphic translating the authors.

The tragic fate of the family, subjected to repression, up to 24 years are not allowed to proceed to Shvartsmanu arts education. In 1956, graduating with a diploma monumentalista Higher Art and Industrial College (B. Stroganov), where his teachers were painters P. Kuznetsov and A. Kuprin , he worked as a short artist VDNKh, later served in the field of industrial orders and book graphics, advertisements, posters. However, since the late 1950's master led the search for creative, independent, believing himself primarily a painter, and the work «a» was seen as the main content of life, understood as a ministry.

A special master has the authority associated with his work in the Special Art and Design Bureau of Light Industry, where in 1966-1985 he served as chief artist. Invited by the bureau during its creation, Shvartsman recruited a group of young artists, and based on the concept ieraticheskoy created a graphic design school, played a key role in developing the principles of graphic styling - symbolic, stylistic unification of industrial goods (trademarks, packaging, labels). Under the slogan out of «dry zauchennogo Design» Schwarzman, along with the students mastered the experience K. , V. Tatlin , Lisitsky L. , Alexander Rodchenko . Participated in the All-Union and international exhibitions of 1960, including a demonstration of graphic design in France, Great Britain, the Soviet poster of the Netherlands, Poland, USA, received the award. This Schwarzman not knowingly entered into the Union of Artists, but not part of the underground association with the reputation of the opponent kontseptualistov, although the terms of his communication belonged «uncensored» creative intellectuals of different generations: A. Kruchenykh , A. Volkonsky, M. Spindler , D. Sarabianov, I. Kabakov , G. Sapgir, G. Kostaki , O. Sedakova, Boris Groys.

Creativity Shvartsman did not leave a narrow range of: do not accept bohemian, he was not involved in illegal exhibitions, showing their own paintings in his house. For the first time some ieratury went out to the audience in 1980 at group exhibitions in the City of graphs (Moscow), «100 years of Russian Art» (London), «I live, I can see» (Berne), «Other Art» (Moscow - S. Petersburg). However, the master rejected the proposal on the western gallery of personal impressions, dreaming of the first exhibition «in his homeland».

To develop the concept ieraticheskoy definitively established in 1970, Shvartsman prompted the study of medieval art. Creatively rethinking metaphysical images of Byzantine and Old Russian painting and the ancient Far East, as well as the legacy of Russian avant-garde, the artist created compositions mounted a monumental character - ieratury. So far from the icon and secular paintings, they were invented Shvartsmanom as emblematic forms for transfer of natural images in the conceptual, to express the mysterious laws of the universe that the artist understand how structural properties of the universe, the Divine managed fisheries. The papers Shvartsman combining canonized images and irrelevant elements, there is the effect of internal stresses, the saturation of spiritual peace artist. Impression permanence gives a clear architectural composite building, the symmetry, frontal poses, and different scale hierarchical figures, supplemented by a strict harmony of colors. Abstract forms serve as symbols of the true, the spiritual essence of the phenomena around the world.

It is in the field of graphic art and the principles laid philosophical system Shvartsman. Drawings of different years allows her to trace the genesis and development of their arhitektonichnost due to the fact that he considered his works and projects as a new architecture. Exhibition graphics, including some 70 pieces from the collection of the artist's widow, the Tretyakov Gallery, Heritage Foundation Mikhail Shvartsman and private collections, in the autumn and winter of 2008/2009 makes the tour route: Russian Museum - the Tretyakov Gallery - Museum of Aachen (Germany). Retrospective open work early, figurative period, which has already swept through the artistry, the selection of parts constructive and laconic, and extends the range of moods from the lyricism ( «Thoughts of a daughter», 1968) and irony ( «Sanja with bird market», 1963). Many drawings of 1970, including sketches of the paintings, the artist explains the search for knowledge in the field of engineering functions, hence the word «structure» in the title. Some lists give an example of symbiosis of text and plastic solutions (cycle «The key ideography», 1960-1964): the caption streak song, reminiscent of a plan of the labyrinth, and fundamentally important to the comprehension of the concept of the master, who after 1985 devoted himself exclusively painting.

On the initiative of the Fund's legacy of Mikhail Shvartsman issued for the exhibition catalog, represents more than 150 drawings created between 1949 and 1987.

Exposure to GTG (Small Tolmachevsky trans., 6, p. 1) is open from 12 December to 28 Dec., 2008.

Source: mkrf.ru