Today in the exhibition halls of the Literary Museum in the House Ostroukhov opens exhibition of paintings and graphics Vladimir Pyatnitskiy

Today, April 13 in the exhibition halls of the State Literary Museum in the House Ostroukhov (Trubnikovsky per., 17) opens exhibition of paintings and graphics Vladimir Pyatnitsky «" Jolly Fellows "and other».

Name show gave its central exhibit - Man-Made Book V. Pyatnitskiy and N. Dobrokhotova-Maikova "Jolly Fellows". Become a legend in the years of stagnation, created in the depths of the Moscow underground, this piece of art the author of the book have never before come out on the court a wide audience.

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«In the halls of the State Literary Museum for the first time you can see one of the most famous and unknown works of Russian art of the second half of the XX century -" Funny Guys ", a handwritten book of Vladimir and Natalia Pyatnitskiy Dobrokhotova-Maikova. "Jolly Fellows" are famous for: their texts squeezed in newspapers and magazines as anonymous or attributed humorous pieces, even in academic journals, Daniil Kharms, someone who knows someone, prisochinyal add their stories about other heroes, few artists have done to the "Jolly kids' pictures and comic strips printed on his own behalf, perhaps unaware that picked up on the street when the text is born as a "picture book", wrote for the accompanying pictures - wonderful pictures of Vladimir Pyatnitskiy.

The book was created in early 1970. The writing and drawing were clean game - a never occurred to the proposal to print the grotesque and even blasphemous to the measure of "serious" and "official" culture jokes about the way in which Leo Tolstoy pestering Herzen crutch or as changed by Pushkin, Gogol. The book is designed in a single copy. Original seen a few. Photocopies with him were very rare. Masterpiece has remained unknown to the public, professionals and society. It is hoped that after exposure to the State Literary Museum he were the second, a new life.

"Jolly Fellows" - a paroxysm of laughter in excess of the height of culture. Sometimes the fault, laughter is the Soviet interpretation of Russian cultural tradition: Lenin Decembrists awakened Herzen, Tolstoy lump of humanity, etc. But in a free and experience the tradition for serious overexposure display explodes with laughter - and then Ivan Sergeevich from sin, sideways, sideways - and Baden-Baden, as reminiscent Piatnitski with Dobrokhotova. Parody replaces reality and the inevitable exclamation of "Pushkin, where are you?". It is essential that one: "Jolly Fellows" alien, totally alien to nihilism, and openly mocked an interpretation, but faces the tradition.

Exhibition at the State Literary Museum sopolagaet gay fantasy - the strange reality of the world paintings and drawings by Vladimir Pyatnitskiy. The poor life truthfully snyascheysya Moscow revealed to the spectator in sadness and horror, in spellbound tenderness and simplicity of routine lasts indefinitely ».

curator of the exhibition,
Doctor of Philology Nikolai Vsevolodovich Kotrelev

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Piatnitski Vladimir Pavlovich (1938-1978) belonged to the cult figures of the Moscow underground. In 1960, 70 years was a member of Yuzhinsky circle formed around Yuri Mamleeva. It was close to G. Aigi, G. Sapgir, V. Yakovlev , A. Zverev , Ven. Erofeev, wrote his portrait. He participated in many exhibitions of alternative art, including exposure in the Izmailovo Park (1974). Works V. Pyatnitskiy stored in the museum "Other Art" and in several private collections.

addition drawn handwritten book "Jolly Fellows", the exhibition includes original paintings and graphics (genre scenes, portrait sketches) from the collections NV Kotreleva, M. Alshibaya, family Dobrohotova from other Moscow private collections. Also of interest are masks made of papier-mache - caricatures of Russian writers: Pushkin, Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. In general, displays over 120 works of V. Pyatnitskiy.

The exhibition runs until 15 May.

Source: museum.ru