"Fantasies of Labasa in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Today, September 9, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens the exhibition "Fantasy Labasa. Over the past few years, Moscow has passed a series of exhibitions Alexander Labasa (1900-1983), in which the legacy of a remarkable Russian artist was presented, it would seem, with exhaustive. Nevertheless, the exposition, which opens in the MMSI, reveals another facet in his work - it's safe to say that this Labasa no one has yet seen.
The exhibited works are not meant for exhibitions and might seem disparate sketches and sketches - but taken together they form an independent loop. Attentive and leisurely look curator (the author of the exhibition - the artist's widow, son, Raymond Labas) allowed to combine these works are not only thematically but also stylistically.
They show that in the last years of his life painting of Alexander Labasa has found a new artistic quality. In some ways the product of these years, reminiscent of works of his illustrious contemporaries Alexander Tischler . Some of the watercolors and pastels refer to "Water-Lilies" by Claude Monet, others - to the later painting Odilon Redon. This similarity has no borrowings and quotations, is the result of independent and internal laws of the artistic process.
Just as the late impressionism of Monet led the wizard on the brink of lyrical abstraction, "space fantasy" summed up Alexander Labasa to non-figurative art. Fifty years later, it is clear that the individual works like Labasa prejudge the work of his younger contemporaries, such as Anatoly Zverev .
