Painting Exhibition Elias Usmanov in the Gallery "Cinema"
Today, 8 September, in the gallery "Movie" opens exhibition of works by Elias Usmanov "After the Rain"
Today, September 8 at the gallery "Cinema" (The first Rzhevskii ., 8) opens an exhibition of works by Elias Usmanov "After the Rain." The exhibition is part of the Competition of Contemporary Art ArtPreview . Ilyas Usmanov - a professional artist, member of Russian Union of Artists, participant of numerous exhibitions in Moscow and Russia.
Ilyas Usmanov was born in 1960 in the village Kumak Novoorskogo district of Orenburg region. He graduated from the Orenburg Art College. The creative biography of the artist convincingly enough, but the possibilities are constantly working on a professional level with the capital galleries, the artist has not yet been.
years of professional work Ilyas Usmanov provide an opportunity to speak on the current master, with his recognizable range of topics and plastic solutions. In this case, the obvious desire to fit into the current art context sometimes led him to work in the other, "foreign" manners. Thus, a series of works with the nude clearly resolved in the manner of plastic Baltic School, where at one time he had raised considerable interest, has found admirers and buyers.
conducting master classes with young artists, Ilyas Usmanov reveals the secrets of skill and demonstrates ability to work in a strictly realistic, almost academic manner. However, the exhibition organizers believe that more interesting work created at home and representing uncomplicated picture of rural life. In their simplicity theme or a particular motif has formed his own, easily recognizable style. Usually in small format (usually he writes on DWT), like a kaleidoscope, one after the other scenes of rural life there. Everyday life, ordinary human concerns painted works Ilyas Usmanov poetry and humor. Lovely, touching scenes devoid of domestic details: the artist strives to create a poetic medium, where all the concrete rises to a generalized image. Therefore, the space of his paintings are often sparse, sometimes pustovato. The human eye sees it right away and gets a certain emotional mood. This greatly contributes to the color system works Usmanov. Thin, soft combination of light colors are sometimes interspersed with broken one or two bright, saturated color patches. This helps not only to build the track, but also to attract the viewer's eye. Usually such work, the artist writes without preparatory sketches, trying to recreate in their freshness and harmony of their impressions and feelings. Not dissolve in village life, but watching it, Ilyas Usmanov often see it as funny and sometimes bizarre manifestations, but they have had no rejection, no joke, but only understanding and kind smile. If we can speak of "humanity" in the painting, with an excess of it is present in all the artist's works. It is this series of papers (about 30 pieces) gallery Movie "and submit to the artist's personal exhibition.
title of the exhibition - "After the Rain" - taken from one of the works exhibited at the museum. Clean human thoughts, the naturalness of life conflicts in the artist's works give rise to the viewer feeling of freshness, harmony and good feelings awaken. And it seems that today this attitude to the world and man finds understanding among the general public and they will be perceived as a breath of fresh air after a thunderstorm.
Works Elias Usmanov are in private collections in Germany, France , Switzerland, Canada, Holland, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, in the gallery "Drouot" in France and in Orsk museum.
exhibition will run until September 17, 2010.
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