June 11 at the gallery "Vellum" begins to work solo exhibition Leo Tabenkin. The exhibition of over 40 works

June 11 in the gallery "vellum" (gallery-center "Artifact", Prechistenka, 30 / 2) starts the personal exhibition "Here the girl is beautiful... the Views on the nature of the artist of Leo Tabenkina". The exhibition, which is made up images of women born with a brush-known contemporary artist, includes over 40 works and will last until June 30. The Vernissage will be held June 15 to 17 hours.

• 

Genre painting — the basis of creativity of the Lion Tabenkina — rare today way of thinking in painting. Renaissance grandeur of the heroes and at the same time, wild, sometimes coarse expression, heavy pressure of the flesh made in normal scene from life, make the pictures epic allegories. The favorite objects artist — grotesque images of animals, which symbolize the human passions, freedom, strength, suffering, and weakness. Heroine L. Tabenkina, gathered at the exhibition as metaphorical. Before us is the incarnation of the female image — from goddesses with individuals, likened to archaic masks cor, to the personifications of the Bacchic frenzy.

Heroine Tabenkina, as if sculpted out of scenic pasty mass, is significant, and convincingly self-sufficient life. The space of the canvas is addictive, it is a kind of inner energy, the power of the creative temperament.

• 

Lev Tabenkin is gifted with a special vision, he is able to show what others don't notice or want to notice. Every time, in every picture, he creates his own world — is far from classical harmony, expressive, bright, powerful. He "takes a step into the unknown, leaving behind a quiet road, familiar and close".

""the Artist is almost always reminiscent of a discoverer of new Islands, continents, worlds, galaxies", — identified Lev Tabenkin his credo. The son of a great painter Ilya Tabenkina, one of the most subtle artists-шестидесятников, it is close to the father and brightness of his personality, the depth and tension of the inner life. “My experience today — is the experience of overcoming vulgarity, dumb, imposed concepts”, — says the artist. He is just endowed with the finest artist's intuition, which allows him to feel, to guess the anxiety and pain of the surrounding world. Social anxiety too. In the early 1980-х criticism surely have ranked him among the painters-пластикам, that is, those for whom the expressiveness of the image is achieved expressiveness of totopotomoy. In this painting ripple of color, its movement and determine the germination and design, and story. It is the color building painting, heavy, malleable, sometimes monotonous. Lev Tabenkin is not a colorist in the old sense of the word. His palette is simple, almost poor, and he seemed to be looking for the color of wealth. Diversity, in any case. Color for him is not a jewel, not a feast for the eyes, and the likeness of clay. Your image of the world, the artist sculpts, as a Potter, and sets in motion the clay, which we all mesim, — clay of everyday life. Or is this a different clay and a visible eye, the familiarity of its deceptive".

• 

E. The City. Light, 1990.

"But Leo Tabenkin as was artist-философом, andleft and became only stronger, deeper and bigger, and in General, it is an outstanding phenomenon of Russian art, and the history of this art without this figure, it is simply impossible to write. His stuff can and should be analyzed seriously."

Grigory Revzin. Kommersant, 2006.

***

Lev Ilyich Tabenkin (b. 1952, Moscow) the artist's son, I. L. Tabenkina. Graduated from the Moscow polygraphic Institute in 1975. 1974 — participant of exhibitions. Participated in several major exhibitions, including the resonance of the exhibition "the Artist and modernity" (1987, Moscow). Since the second half of 1980-х exhibited in many cities of Western Europe and also in Japan. I had worked in Italy. Works of the artist are in museums (including the Tretyakov gallery and Museum) and many private collections in Russia, Western Europe and the United States.

Ten auction sales of works of Leo Tabenkina

1. Jazz orchestra. 2004. Phillips de Pury & Company, London. 30.06.2008. Price: $234 877

2. Gymnasts. Sotheby's, new York. 28.04.2006. Price: $102 000

3. Boxers. 1992. Sotheby's, London. 12.03.2008. Price: $50 891

4. Lovers. 1985. Sotheby's, London. 15.02.2007. Price: $42 436

5. Birds. 1984. Phillips de Pury & Company, London. 27.11.1989. Price: $15 730

6. Choice. 1987. Sotheby's, Moscow. 07.07.1988. Price: $14 073

7. The elderly. 1987. Sotheby's, Moscow. 07.07.1988. Price: $10 320

8. The seller. 1986. Sotheby's, Moscow. 07.07.1988. Price: $9757

9. Aquarium. 1988. Gelos, Moscow. 03.12.2005. Price: $6995

10. Choir. 1982. Dorotheum, Vienna. 22.11.1999. Price: $1302

Source: press-релиз gallery "vellum"