Today in the gallery "House Nashokin" exhibition opens Vladimir Lyubarova "Consumers"

Today, March 12, Gallery House Nashokin "opens exhibition of Vladimir Lyubarova" Consumers ».

For nearly twenty years of work Vladimir Lyubarov over its picturesque cycle" Country Peremilovo. This country, created by the imagination of the artist, has as its own, well-defined, geographic coordinates, as well as its own metaphysical topography. Thus, the "capital" lyubarovskoy country - Village Peremilovo "- has a real prototype and is located on the border of the Vladimir and Yaroslavl regions. A lyubarovsky City Pinch ", though like something nearby Yurev-Polish, but still more in the memories of the artist born of his postwar childhood in Zamoskvoretskaya communal outdoor Pinch. In the process of creating a cycle to the picturesque "Village Peremilovo" and "City Pinch" clung "township" with the Old Testament Jews and the quaint town of "Amsterdam", and similar to its Dutch prototype, and the village Peremilovo simultaneously.

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All these years lyubarovskie characters live on the canvases of the artist's full , self-sufficient life: drink, look at the stars, love their wives and foreign girls, dance, sing in chorus, from time to time let the red rooster, and sometimes work. They go on the water and the world cope with the elements (a series of "Flood"). A few years ago, carried away by public outburst, peremilovtsy decided to restrain his drinking, healthier, and for some time to turn Peremilovo in the "Russian Olympic Village" (series "FizkultPrivet !»).

Here are tarnished peremilovtsam holiday current economic crisis. Not that he knocked the ground from under his feet: show off - they never show off, just fell on "lean years" made them think again about the eternal, that in Russia's history at all times to coincide with the pressing. Simply put, about food.

In a new series of Vladimir Lyubarova "Consumers" all eat. They eat the same way as live, and live the same way as they eat. The artist is not exploring the food, and watching consumers. And each consumer on the table (in the chair, a stool, in a newspaper, on the grass) still life spread out all his personal story.

In the new series, though it pleases the eye and rich food near "gastronomic reality" is not important Lyubarova itself. It is just an excuse for an artist to make to show people, their dreams, thoughts and feelings. In contrast, human emotions, hidden thoughts materialize in edible "material evidence" lyubarovskih feasts. For food-drink consumed by each of lyubarovskih "consumers", easy to read their fate. Thus, the orphan, paper cups with an incomprehensible liquid - it is difficult Mondays citizens cheerfully have spent the weekend ( "Monday"). Absurd giant, with baroque rosettes, the cake looks like a very unfulfilled woman's happiness ( "I Petrovna's birthday"). And infinitely long - as squanders time - gray spaghetti, which enthusiastically shoves into his mouth, bro, apparently tried bondage ( "Pasta in nautically »).

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special place in this "edible" series took lyubarovskie still lifes. If there is reason to celebrate their "Dutch", it is not tradition sneyderovskogo extravagance, and Calvinistic ascetic simplicity. Each still life Lyubarova is as nutritionists would say today, "monoproduct" - of those whose beauty most of us are not perceived, zamylilsya eyes. Well, what of it? - All this is growing every dacha: onion, garlic, cabbage, peppers, zucchini. Slightly richer look piled a mound berry-fruit: strawberries, cherries, apples, pears.

What could be simpler! But all these gifts peremilovskogo garden, lying in wait for their consumers, charged with domestic temperament, and everyone - with its intonation - converses with the audience. Obvious and maliciously - overgrown with prickly green branches last year's garlic. Coquettish, like overripe beauty, - strawberry. Melancholy, with a hint of nostalgia - golden peppers. Imposing shows itself, pushing "villagers", a pink bow. And, not too consistent with the space of the canvas, spreading its lacy frills cabbage merchant's wife: where are you going to go away without me, in gaunt some years. - Indeed: where ?..

In lyubarovskoy picture of the world food is a necessary condition of life, naipozitivneyshim its quality. No wonder people of all its consumers marked by a special kind of "restrained radiance" - as Stephen Oblonsky in anticipation of dinner. Artistic language Vladimir Lyubarova reflects full experience - physiological, emotional, aesthetic - which to give his characters when they eat. And the food - even in workaday artless and simple, like the whole life lyubarovskih heroes - gives them a feeling of a small inner freedom.

still a drink consumers from lyubarovskoy "Countries Peremilovo" ? - And how. But the current lyubarovskie heroes out and consumers to drink culture, in human, under zakusochku and conversation. True, Wellness period still has not passed for peremilovtsev nothing - and clearly many of them switched to less zaboristye drinks: the series is even a "conceptual" picture - "We went for a beer." Of course, not all of the heroes lyubarovskih this transition easy. Yes, and do not know how people living on the Russian expanses, to overcome difficulties sober. No wonder even Joseph Brodsky said that drunkenness in provincial Russia somehow, paradoxically, helps keep the soul.

amid growing flurry of TV cooking, culinary boom in Russia's book publishing, fashion gravity of our "advanced "citizens to the fusion cuisine and everything exotic, gastronomic, artist LVM (not gourmet, a supporter of the usual home cooking) in the process of creating a new series made a discovery which surprised him: it turns out, is not necessarily the main slogan of our day -" Life is good! - write down the red caviar. These words with the same conviction we can write all that, today, do you have on the table: for example, red tomatoes on salty buckwheat porridge. Or the black garlic bread ... Who likes that!

The exhibition runs until May 11, 2010.

Source: museum.ru