This evening at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will open the exhibition Cyril Daneliya The Greatest Hits

This evening at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka, 25, 3rd floor) will open the exhibition Cyril Daneliya The Greatest Hits.

The exhibition in the eight halls MMSI will be presented to more than 70 paintings and objects Cyril Daneliya of public gatherings and private collections. These works are combined in the series «The New York metro», Nocturne de NYC, «permissible boundaries», «chairs». A poster «matches», «fish», «violin», «Pool» and «bottle» found in almost all series, and in many vneseriynyh jobs Daneliya.

Vasily Tsereteli, executive director of MMSI: «Cyril Daneliya was one of the first artists who exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art soon after its opening, but it works for the right to occupy an important place in our collection ...

Daneliya - heir to the sixties generation, re-understood genre of still life and the life of the subject in art. The main role in his scenes play things that are integrated into beautiful fabric and become an entirely new meaning. Violin, bottles, old gramophone and yellowed newspaper pages - recognizable elements of style of the artist. They are transformed, losing the volume and weight, maximum sblizhayas plane with the canvas. Untouched, however, the things found at flea markets, never silent: they keep the memory of the past and tell her story ».

Daneliya creates his own special and wonderful world of each work in each exposure, using installations quite ordinary, utilitarian objects. Objects stored in the space of the most unexpected things and live ... Billiards, spines of musical instruments, records or prokalennye fire coffee dzhezvy. Chairs, cans, old playing cards, or match boxes. It seems that the artist loves all dusty, dilapidated, touched by time decay. He really is looking for old things to «flea markets» around the world, komissionkah at auctions.

tune in something of his love for «dilapidation» and «perishability» in their own creativity and the other hypostasis Cyril Daneliya. Bears his name known and antique gallery in Moscow and abroad. Subjects - rare, especially in Russia, the main specialization - Antiquity and the Ancient East. Collect its own collection and the gallery Daneliya devotes a on most of his life was about 10 years.

It starts very early. And in the works, and in business. Of course, such a loud name film provides an important opportunity ... But Cyril had never connected himself with the film and theater, but studied at the faculty of the school production studio Moscow Arts Theater.

nature, the contradictions, the creativity of its impact not only in the principal meridians of life, but in the passions, which have many of the unusual and avant-garde artist of the gallery. Life in Moscow and New York. American cars 1950; Harley-Davidson; tatuirovschika professional career (the fact, however, he is afraid of injections as a fire). And at the same time - bourgeois: a large family, beloved wife and four children, a collector of antique art gallery owner (the window which, incidentally, went on the Patriarch - right on the very bench where Voland first met with the Homeless and Berlioz).

But Daneliya definition of «master» in relation to itself for some reason does not perceive. And the classics are not very grievance. And their works are most associated with pop art.

Kirill Daneliya. «About the classics, pop art, and teachers»: «The most important for me to master the art, perhaps, Robert Rauschenberg. I believe it has important implications for the entire Lianozovsky school. And in general - for the entire Russian recusancy.

And of all the Russian teachers are most like Oscar Rabin , Vitaly Dlugi and of course - David Shterenberg ...

In fact, I am the closest image of Moscow's cuisine. This really came out completely the entire Soviet Pop Art. And still we have, by and large, come from there. Once all lived in those stereotypes ...

This is a violin in my work - it's just the love to the subject. What could be more beautiful than a violin. This is one of the most sophisticated tools. A number of stereotypes associated with it? .. Stradivari - dream Lottery: find expensive antiques somewhere in the attic ... so a child meal, makes playing the violin, and konservatorskie guys playing at restaurants, and ... it is string quartets and klazmer with tsyganschinoy ... So again, this is something peretekanie superelitnoy from classics to pop ... By the way, a series of "Drums", also has ... »

Personal exhibitions Daneliya were repeated in Moscow, the United States, Switzerland, Great Britain, Ireland, in many cities of Russia. His works are in museum collections of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, State Tretyakov Gallery, the Art Museum of Ivanovo Oblast, Tver Regional Art Gallery, as well as in many private collections in different countries.

By the way, the artist's first exhibition was held in 1989. So in fact the current exhibition - Jubilee. 20 years later. «The Greatest Hits».

The exhibition is open until 24 May.

Source: press release MMSI