This evening in the gallery PROUNI opens exhibition «Handicrafts», devoted to embroidery in the works of Russian artists from the beginning of XX century to our days.

The obvious and repeatedly confirmed by the fact that the art world and the Russian avant-garde folk, archaic art has become one of the major plastic and philosophical resources, acquires additional dimension, given the traditional arts and crafts.

new project gallery PROUNI «Handicrafts» presents a visual study of the embroidery, which is not confined to the art of the first third of XX century, but continuing, including the focus of attention and critical artists active with embroidery technique.

The revival of interest in the creative life of traditional folk embroidery is due not only to program avant-garde aspiration to authenticity of Archaic art, but also highly characteristic of European culture XIX century phenomenon, which can be described as «return things». The man himself increasingly surrounded by different things and objects, which are designed to beautify everyday life, art is beginning to address not only the purely artistic problem, but it is most active in the domestic sphere, it turns into the totality of the actions of pure design.

With regard to embroidery and other forms of elegant decor, you can remember morrisovskie workshops in England, but no less interesting experience in Russia (eg, workshops, led by Mary Yakunchikovoy and Alexandra Koltsovo-Bychkova ) and mainly by the Ukrainian Center for the revival and study of folk embroidery and its use in the design of clothing and interiors. Legendary Studios in villages Olenevka (led by Krichev ), eunuchs (led by E. Pribylskoy) and, of course in recruitment, where the team has become a creative laboratory for the group , joined talented artists. The exhibition features the work of E. Pribylskoy, V. Krichev, students Pribylskoy - Dogs G., B. Dovgoshey, which re-mastered the art of embroidery, to expand its range, eliminating the decorative. Using the then popular Art Nouveau motifs, various floristic ornaments, etc. artists of embroidery forced expression, to seek a special purity of color.

Plastic opportunities finely embroidered felt and Russian artists of the twentieth century, such as Pavel Kuznetsov , Kulbin and student Kuprin M. Levashova. Shitye application (a kind of embroidery, often with relief suture) Kulbina Levashov and offer a new interpretation kollazhnoy technology through enhanced expression of color and texture of silk sutures acting intentionally.

history of embroidery in the art of XX century, in general, one finds a clear trend: the gradual elimination of decorative and applied properties and emergence as a completely separate art form, with the additional point in an aesthetic context. Ukrainian and Russian artists studios late XIX - early XX century, started the process, experimenting with different kinds of embroidery, varying themes and the main reasons for creating objects on the edge of decoration, the first disciples Malevitch continued his zavorozhennye the ideal opportunity to exit the geometry in real space, modern artists worked with embroidery, forget about its nature and application addressing primarily a particularly intimate, homely, man of which have reported embroidered work.

Embroidery for Russian avant-garde, and especially for a group of Malevich - is not a marginal area, separated from the great art classes, but the natural continuation of that kind of «test of strength» new shape, a confirmation of the viability of the ideal geometry . In the early 1910-ies of the Russian avant-gardists artists, the participants «Supremusa» Malevitch actively engaged in the process of artistic labor in artisanal «Recruitment», organized by N. Davidova in his own house in the village of recruitment, where the avant-garde designs Olga Rozanova , Lyubov Popova , Udaltsova Hope , Alexandra Exter (represented in the exhibit) is decorated omnifarious textiles - pillows, tape, binding, the details of clothing, etc. S. Khan-Magomedov said that «all these years, like Suprematism evolved in two directions - both easel paintings and as ornamental, decorative supergrafika ... It seems that in 1919, Malevich had Suprematist supergrafiku considered as an integral part of its vision of shaping ».

embroidery, as traditionally female activity, associated with an intimate, home-state. It is no coincidence that it is women-artists (Rozanova, Udaltsova, Ekster, Delone , etc.) were the most sensitive to plastic embroidery resources, it managed to fully absorb, creating not only sketches, which then mistress doing embroidery, but also actively embroidered. Presented in the exposition of hand-embroidered Sonia Delaunay, and Alexandra Exter handbags - visual proof. In the art of the middle and second half of XX century, women artists, whose works focused around issues of gender, search for sexual identity, often turned to embroidery - here you can remember the textbook examples such as Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, recent works by British artist Tracey Emin and the work of the St Petersburg duo Glyukli and herons, participating in the project «Handicrafts», working memory problems with things and people. However, embroidery in modern art goes far beyond the limits of feminist discourse - artists very consciously trying to withdraw from the area of women's embroidery art, telling his works and other properties meanings. For Leonid Tishkov embroidery associated with family history, more precisely, the mythology: embroidered mother or the artist of his own image on the old fabrics (pillow, handkerchief) as if the account for the state of incredible trust, family closeness, maintain the natural and enduring relationship generations. The young painter Eugene Antufev born in Tuva, is actively working with embroidery, returning to her self-clean technology, devoid of the notorious decoration, «decorations». Appealing to a kind of natural and human prasostoyaniyam, Antufev with incredible tenderness gomunkulov embroidery, making pieces of cloth (old towels, tights, etc) strange-pupa cocoons that seem to live in nepretvorennom, doformennom as happily awaiting Zamira embodiment.

As for the time Eugene Pribylskaya discovered the embroidery surface, «Painting needle», allowing to achieve subtle color decisions, so Lukashevker Alexander (1925-1992), talented artist who worked all his life in the genre of chamber ( small ink drawings, paintings and sketches etc.), since the 1970's created a number of unique embroidery, the elegance of color comparable to impressionisticheskoy painting. Her embroidery stitch as if lost, as if she does not notice the nicety texture threads, focusing on the finest color transitions in miniature landscapes. Irina Irina Zatulovskaya , by contrast, took this very intractability of material, it is not trying to create a painting or any other illusion -- Conversely, continuing to harness the resource of folk art, Zatulovskaya of deliberate brutality conscious «carelessness» performance offers a gesture of true freedom.

Embroidery often appears in paintings on cloth Timur Novikov : Arts Timura restores broken in During the Soviet time, connection between high art and culture of everyday life. From the cheapest and conventional-edged fabrics, combining them in one seam, Novikov an amazing space, placing them shitye applications (house, sun, etc.). Designed Novikov «sign prospect» transforms textile paintings in the objects of true art, while the audience open to him - we gain the opportunity to see the «top», opoznavaya overall structure of space, and no matter where there is a revelation, in a museum or at home .

Sergei Bugaev - Africa , Timura student who works with a variety of media, in a series of 2003 year «aphasia» pennants Soviet times turned into kitchevye comics, putting on the «front» claret velvet embroidered figures of monsters, strange urodtsev, once again raising the topic of the absurd state ideology, and ideology in general, as such, not least ironiziruya on itself and his creative past. Young artist Alice Joffe to install «Red Corner» gracefully outplay several «ideology»: the location in the space of three blank canvases, on the edge of each of which put embroidered red threads ornament, as around a photograph in the passport, refers not only to the traditional red corner with icons, but also to exhibit the legendary «Last futuristic exhibition 0.10», where for the first time the public were presented Suprematist works.

Exhibition «Handicrafts» Gallery PROUNI (CSR «Winery», 4 th Syromyatnichesky lane, 1/6) is open from 22 May to 20 July, 2009.

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