Today in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts Exhibition of paintings by Oleg Vukolov

Today, June 16, in the halls of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (Prechistenka, 21) opens exhibition of paintings of folk artist of Russia, Full Member of Russian Academy of Arts Oleg Vukolov .

Biography of the artist is full of unexpected and unpredictable turns. Childhood in Pyatigorsk, studies at St. Petersburg (Leningrad), the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Repin, participation in alternative exhibitions and prosecution of independent creative position ended, citing the return to Moscow to participate in the major European forum of contemporary art, creating an international association of artists in Provence, which became the president of Oleg.

the master attracted attention in the early 1960's, when the artist, who has just graduated from the Institute, was close to the masters of «severe style». Soon, his works have appeared in intonation, coming into our culture of the Italian neorealizma. Chutko responding to the processes taking place in modern European artistic culture, Vukolov brought new pieces to their paint palette to create their own artistic style.

Latitude creative range Vukolov associated with the various genres. He showed himself as an outstanding portraitist, and a unique master of narrative and poetic as the author of still life and landscapes. His works offer the viewer at once familiar and extraordinary, wonderful world, transformed the fantasy artist, full of poetry and romance.

In the 1980 Vukolov with a new object of attention, in which the painter wanted to show all the diversity «culture of the game». As a symbolic object in his works has become a pillow as an attribute of everyday life. Inanimate objects found in his work a special spirituality and associativity. These songs Vukolov felt a powerful energy, sense, and the plastic module, a kind of fork of his personal relationship to existence.

As a creative studio in Marseille, the artist creates a series of works «Sails», combining the search for Russian avant-garde, his romanticism and intellectual context.

Oleg Vukolov Express - a striking and significant phenomenon of the contemporary visual arts - came in the context of the world's artistic process.

Pictures Vukolov exhibited in numerous domestic and foreign exhibitions. They take their rightful place in the collections of museums and galleries around the world - the National Museum of Columbia (United States), the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig in the Museum of Modern Art in Cologne, Aachen and Beijing, the National Gallery in Budapest, Paris, Bratislava, Warsaw, Vienna, in the funds «Deutsche Bank», Frankfurt/Main and Luxembourg, and other works by the artist and also stored in the largest Russian museums - the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, many museums in Russia and CIS countries, are the property of foreign and domestic private collectors.

exhibition works to 5 July 2009.

Source: rah.ru