Today in Moscow opens an exhibition of the artist, without which it is simply impossible to imagine "all the heroic story of the birth and maturation of modern Ukrainian art"

Today, November 23 at the Gallery "M & J Gelman (4 th Syromyatnicheskiy per. 1 /6) opens an exhibition of Alexander Roitburd « Scrabble ».

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As we know from his own words, Alexander Roitburd in childhood "was very sorry for the dead astronauts." So sorry that in the conscious years he has created on this theme artwork. And another thing: he almost fell in love with either childhood art, why he "always wanted to have a lot of good pictures." And here, for example, young Classical Guitar - before entering the Academy of Fine Arts - happened to work as a retoucher at a shop . And before fame as the chief of the 14 rebels, the Wanderers, he was already considered in St. Petersburg, "the god of retouching." Not surprisingly, the retusherskaya way to simulate a thin brush and small strokes, besfakturnaya surface and the very brown-brown color photographic stayed with him for life. Vasily Surikov remembered him: "He wrote a portrait of me, and I tell him - not a single stroke. Put at least on the forehead shine stroke. A Kramskoy says: "Where do you see on the faces of strokes?" And yet, put a smear. "Here it is, a smear," - and he laughed ».

Roitburd it was the time to ask the reverse:" Can you at least once without smears, without texture? ". And in response, he would say ... However, I do not know what would be a he said, but vividly imagine the tonal texture of his speech, the gathering in the characteristic shape, the relationship between them is hopelessly drowned in a dense phonetic substance. How do I know Shura Roitburd, it always pearls. And the pressure of natural energy outstripped any thought. In what seems to be Roitburd problems never seen any ex post facto zakutyvaya their artistic offspring into the layers of text - with the same stunning dexterity, which depicted the characters in a pile of brush strokes.

As clear smear is not a physicist, but the overall metaphor for his personal manners, a sign, pardon the expression, of lifestyle. Invoice for Roitburd do not care what retouching for Archaeology. Kramskoy surrounds the "truth of life", and Roitburd - the art, but instinct with them one and the same. To my children, do not bring the Lord, not simple - not die, but parental care have revealed themselves to the world in all its glory.

However, God is with him, Archaeology much more curious, what kind of scions of loving Roitburd. But it is worth thinking about this as you see with horror that the children something is not quite it. That they are all from the infinite brood of heroes staroklassicheskoy culture and art, from antiquity to modern, inclusive. And indeed with them that something was wrong. It seems that they are all different, but any Ogorodnaya elder like a Siamese twin of a Kievan uncle. And most importantly, they have all one family, a classically-art, red-yellow-black color. And while its characteristic scale of the author from time to time intervenes hysterically-funny krasochki, it changes nothing. As well as its dyubyuffetovskie graffiti - they are all translucent, retouch picture painting surface, just as not affecting its underworld. Whose inhabitants - revived meat thoroughly podtuhshie zombies resembling animated excess magnetism of its creator.

most of his professional life Roitburd not just spent a postmodernist arguments about "desacralization culture, ritual gestures desecration "," transgression as the essence of the creative act "and" the art of post-mortem », but also willing to participate in the multiplication of this conceptual garbage with all of us who have this arm to the elbow. And for the sake of "contextualization" of his work, and just like that, from an excess of vitality. Today, his "apology ugly" looks naive, but convincing vitality remains. And besides, it became clearer what the meaning tricked roytburdovskogo art production. To me, it is the purest elemental formalism: a passion for producing forms of disused sexual instinct, mimics under prevailing atmosphere of the era.

was in his 1995 installation titled "Hypnotic Session E . Tronsen ": there is plenty of falling out of the oven kind of protoplasm. Installation was shown on the Odessa exhibition "Kandinsky Syndrome," in the text to which this most E. Tronsen and quoted: "Art is spreading over all the possible areas where shamelessly taking bribes from real." It seems like a pro Roitburd, whose temperament, art and stuff are the absolute identity. And whatever he was engaged in addition to art - objects, installations, media art, organizational, curatorial, the collecting activities - everything has always evolved in the obscenely brutal, collage, textured pulsating ripples.

All the heroic story of the birth and maturation of modern Ukrainian art is simply impossible to imagine without Roitburd. He - the living symbol of national "postmodernism", the idol of his "meat mentality." And in the sense of most of the jet of the artistic process, and in terms of his goofy, messy, grotesque institutionalization. Odessa - Kiev - Moscow - New York and back. Movement, unbearably dense communication, construction of regular organizational structures, decaying with the same rapidity that create ... All this is nothing like roytburdovskaya same painting, the relentless real psychic protoplasm does not remain in the frame, izvergshayasya of the paintings in the physical, human space.

I do not know now, there have them in Kiev. It seems to be a social magma significantly podostyla. A Roitburd called a classic. It sounds unnatural, it is not his style. Albeit deservedly, and for the market well.

Vladimir Levashov, Art

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exhibition will run until December 31, 2010.

Source: guelman.ru