Nikolai Mukhin.
Today at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Russian Academy of Arts (Gogolevsky, 10) opens a personal exhibition of People's Artist of Russia, full member of Russian Academy of Arts Nikolai Mukhin
Today, 12 July, at 19.00 in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Gogol Boulevard, 10) will open a personal exhibition of Nikolai Mukhin - People's Artist of Russia, full member of Russian Academy of Arts "Anatomy of a painting. Bible for "illiterate". Fragments of life ».
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Gogol Boulevard, 10) represents. In the vast exhibition brought both early and recent work of masters: paintings, sketches, fragments of frescoes, paintings and sculptures, video installations, photographs, and a documentary about the artist. Will feature works from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Yaroslavl Art Museum, from private collections and collection of the author.
project concept makes it possible to trace the evolution of development of Nikolai Mukhin over the past thirty with a small years. "Art" painting "- is an exact science, like mathematics or physics, requiring over a" heroic "efforts and knowledge of the history of the object. Craft work enough over the years, but it is not important, important, in my opinion - is "Your" perception of the world with all its joys and troubles ", - says the artist.
On Throughout his career, Nikolai Mukhin turns to ancient Russian art, perceiving it as a great cultural and spiritual formation, keeping the answers to important cultural issues of our day. The artist has managed to transform the iconic experience of his predecessors in the thoughts and ideas of his time, creating a unique "bezvremennóy" world of painting, which is a definite interest.
three titles - "Anatomy of a painting. Bible for "illiterate". Fragments of Life "- as defined by everything that is done over the past thirty years.
Painting - is not only a plot, but the surface glaze, rhythms, colors . Expanding it into pieces and bringing them to the "pixel", the artist shows the endless possibilities of creating a "work of art." It is a kind and have a Bible for "illiterate", because not every viewer, even sophisticated, well looked "a painting". Presents - fragments of life of the author.
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«Responding to Art" (art - skill)
... Like most modern thinking, looking for artists Nikolai Mukhin contradictory, ambiguous, uneven. He is caught between the timeless and universal values of the last heap of ugliness in the present, trying to comprehend the truly monstrous explosion of sensuality, lack of spirituality, evil, oppression of the civilized world, claiming allegiance to Christianity.
In his art fight light and darkness, spirit and flesh - as a painful struggle they are in reality.
... What an objective and certainly not in the works Mukhina, it is a lie, sanctimonious hypocrisy, alas, not bypassed our "orthodox" art.
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... For Mukhina Old Russian art is not an object of "salon" style, he treats it as a bottomless well of spiritual, concealing the answers to many burning problems culture of our day.
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... I am eternally grateful to him for preserving the traditions of the Yaroslavl icons, icon painting, which he knows thoroughly, and feels her soul slightest nuances ...
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... Nikolai Mukhin a thoroughly modern man with a very modern range of interests, but as an artist he is a phenomenon that may be strange to ordinary standards, but one that could and should have appeared in our time. He is a kind of companion and rival big Yaroslavl and Kostroma "artel" 17th Century - Dmitry Plekhanov, Guria Kineshemtseva The Force Savina, their disciples and followers, but he has an unknown ancient masters of finely developed technique of oil painting, he knows the secret of a transparent, floating colors, spillovers and nuances, and parabolic curved shapes on his canvases began to live a new life.
Anatoly Kantor, an art critic, member of the administrative council
international association of art critics, scientific secretary
National Committee of Art History
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... Tradition simply does not live in the history of culture, if not absorbs the spirit of an era. It is therefore not surprising that an artist who works in the traditions, becomes involved (sometimes unwittingly) in the maze of historical and cultural ties. In order to get out of this labyrinth, it remains perhaps the only two ways. In one case, it is mechanically copy the designs of old art, in the other - brings to mind those images and ideas of his time.
Modern Yaroslavl painter Nikolai Mukhin chose the second path, and therefore his work is a great interest ...
exhibition is open to the public from July 13 to August 22, 2010.
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