Today in the gallery at the Regina Winzavod will open the exhibition of Ivan Chuikov "Distant - Close"

Today, may 27, at 18.00 in the gallery on the "Winery" will take place opening of the exhibition Ivan Chuikov "Far — is near."

the Cooperation of Ivan Chuikov with the gallery has a long history. The first exhibition of Chuikov's "Theory of reflection" was held in Regina in 1992, then was "Fragments of the interior" (1995), "...And a beautiful view from the window" (2000), "Apparatus for observing void and infinity" (2001), "New work" (2004), "Returned value. Part 3" (2006), "Empty" (2008). The exhibition "Far — Close" is preceded by a large retrospective exhibition in the MMSI, which will be held in November 2010.

For the Moscow scene artist Ivan Chuikov — figure traditionally relevant and this unique. Classic conceptualism, artist, open a window to Europe, the Prince of emptiness, the heretic of the easel, the Renaissance vivisector of image systems, embodied contradiction, the dandy of postmodernism... All of this in loyalty to one chosen method.

a New "Window" of the artist — is still the same ultimate metaphor of the border between art and life, artist and the world, between eras. However, the usual film image, a thin veil of Maya-искусства markedly thickened and-толстовски has simplified the. The secret that lies behind the veil of any description, secret, about which the artist does not get tired to remind, becomes more and more impenetrable.

New to Ivan Chuikov heresy simplicity, teetering on the exhibition game with puzzle-серией "Yin-Ян", which the artist urges from time to time flip up legs because the new provision will appear and new meanings. As the name implies, a series of "Yin-Ян" — on the unity of the world, the unity of opposites: top and bottom, earth and sky, men and women, executioner and victim, etc. Paintings and formally structured in the same manner in which the sign of Yin-Ян. Each work consists of only two elements, respectively, two color plans for these opposing principles. It clearly reads one plan. If outweigh it upside down, the other becomes dominant, it turns out another picture with a different meaning, with different content.

And finally, a series of "Far and near". Recordings made on 18 may 1976 in the same breath, the fun and easy way, today look thought out (and executed!) the program for the next thirty years. An overview of all painting genres, the mirror of reality and imagination, the relationship of the event and its presentation, stated here for the first time, long before the appearance of "Variants," "Fragments", "Theory of reflection".

it is Curious that with text, rare for Chuikov material, he turns in his recognizable manner, apropriiruet and segment time, as will later apropriirovat and fragment the space of his/someone else's visual statements, redefining the boundaries, both far and near.

P. S. at Least the quotes in the text, the inevitable presence of hidden and explicit quotations from — is not so much an attempt of appropriating and slicing done in the honour of a postmodernist, whom Ivan Chuikov himself openly admits how much of a necessary step. A rare word would avoid the quotes here.

Ivan Semenovich Chuikov born may 22, 1935 in Moscow, graduated from Moscow state art Institute (Moscow State Art Institute Surikov) in 1960. His first exhibition was opened in 1957, during the VII world Youth Festival in Moscow. A member of the Artists Union since 1967. Participates in exhibitions of unofficial art in 1976. The work of Ivan Chuikov are in major Museum and private collections, including the collections of the centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of art Zimmerly in new-Джерси, the Russian Museum in Saint-Петербурге and the state Tretyakov gallery in Moscow.

the Exhibition runs until 10 July 2010.

Source: winzavod.ru