Today in the gallery "The Ark" opens exhibition devoted to the theme image horizon. Presents the work of Ilya Mashkov, Konstantin Istomin, Vladimir Favorsky, Alexander Labas and many other authors

Today, February 6, in the gallery "Ark" opens exhibition «d = 3,83 √ h, or the distance to the horizon».

Ilya Mashkov , Konstantin Istomin , Anton Chirkov, Antonov , Alexander Drevin , Alexander Labas , George Nyssa , Vladimir Weisberg , Vladimir Favorski , Grigori Zozulya , Leonid Kazenin, Boris Chernyshev , Eugene Burgunker , Carl Friedman , Viktor Popkov , Alexander Maximov , Garif Basyrov, Pavel Nikonov , Natalia Nesterova , Zatulovskaya , Yuri Burdzhelyan, Vladimir Iljushenko, Alain Kirtsova , Victor Rusanov, Valery Babin, and other artists.

It turns out that the names of all the latest exhibitions the gallery "Ark" in need of curatorial notes. It is well known that the closer to the horizon can not be: it is necessary to take a step toward him, and strip away the observer is moving away from øàãíóâøèõ exactly the same distance. But one thing - to reach, another - to realize the distance.

The same is true in art. "I must first be on the horizon!" - Once sang, Vladimir Vysotsky, and his motto was extremely important for all who seek it and continues to seek perfection and the primacy of art.

However, the current conversation - not an allegory. Spaced in the title of the exhibition formula allows us to literally make the seemingly impossible: to calculate the approximate distance from the observer to the horizon (with the d - is the distance in kilometers and h - the height of human eyes on the ground or water). Long, there are also special "table delete the horizon", compiled for different heights of the observer's eye above the surface of land or sea. But the sight of the artist, as a rule, does not require a fundamental scientific approach in image lines, which, in the definition of a small encyclopaedia Brockhaus and Efron is "a boundary that separates the visible part of the sky from the invisible." Dictionaries century ago led to expansion and interpretation of the term, like "the limit of what can embrace people mind's eye", etc.

of course, in the case of the current exhibition is referred to in primarily on the optical phenomenon - a constant attribute of the works in the genres of landscape, still life or thematic painting, which Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Language by Vladimir Dahl calls the "outskirts of the earth's surface, around the observer, which adjoins the sky" and also mentions the word "horizon", "outlook" "nebozem", "neboskat", "glazoem" and "zreymo».

Particularly worth noting that the horizon is not only the identity of the landscape, he is invisibly present even in images, devoid of visible border earth and sky: in portraits, still lifes, interior species.

Exhibition in the "Ark" combines with a distinct line nebozema and such works, where the horizon has remained behind the scenes - because it The artist looked at the clouds or carried away by what is happening under our feet, or in connection with the fact that the landscaping details were not related to the genre chosen by the author. In addition, the subject image of the horizon, its presence in a picturesque painting or works on paper as a form-building element adjacent theme angle - the angle of view of the artist depicted in the subject. Land, which I saw Alexander Labas or Tamara Rein from the height of the pre-war aircraft, the conquerors of the North Pole on a panel of Elijah Mashkova - one image type; extended horizontally (there he is, the horizon!) nudes or shores of the Kama in watercolors, Konstantin Istomin, objects, demonstrating its stability in the still lifes Vladimir Veisberg - other; floating clouds that prevented Nikolai Grishin hold the horizon line in the picture, or even exhibited ceiling canvas-ceiling Mila Markelova - third. As if returning to the viewer in the position of an artist during his work, the authors of the exhibition refused to "academic" principle show works: their location on the walls of the "Ark" identified in the first level shown horizon. So when you visit the exhibition to the public to be careful to look not only at the walls, but under his feet, and occasionally raise his head up.

The exhibition is open until March 14.

Source: museum.ru