"Paris hermit Nikolai Dronnikov Gallery" Tree "
The exhibition presents spectacular views of Moscow 1970, views of Paris and its suburbs, graphic portraits of famous contemporaries, watercolors, works on ceramics, hand-made book copyrights
Today, December 7 at the gallery "Tree" (Little Nikita, 16) presents a solo exhibition of Nicholas Dronnikova «Paris hermit", dated the 80 th anniversary of the artist. The exhibition is the Year of Russia - France 2010 under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture.
Zhukovsky Dronnikov was born in 1930. Another boy was digging trenches near Moscow. The elder brother of Nicholas straight from art school 1905 went to the front and died on the Kursk. Personality brother influenced the decision to continue the begun by him and has chosen the path of the artist. After college Nick Dronnikov continued his studies at the Art Institute Surikov.
His departure from Russia predetermined meeting with the Marc Chagall in 1968. Then the question of how the development of unofficial art in the Soviet Union Chagall Dronnikovu answered clearly: "I do not know the history of painting ... the underground art underground literature was ... But the art can develop only in freedom." Leave Dronnikovu managed only four years: in 1972, before a private trip, knowing that will not come back, the artist in a forest near Moscow burned, though the bridges behind him, his canvases and drawings.
While living in Paris, Dronnikov devoted his life to creation and preservation of Russian culture. On second-hand bookshop artist has collected one of the best in Paris library of Russian books published before the Revolution and in exile. He gained fame as the chronicler of the Russian emigration: a unique portrait gallery of images, written Dronnikovym from nature, expats Brodsky, Tarkovsky, Rostropovich, Ashkenazy and Sinyavsky adjoin visited Paris Vysotsky, Okudzhava, Richter and Aigi ... belongs to a generation of the sixties, has always felt Dronnikov themselves apart, and claiming his life proving that he is a hermit, but ideal for him is the artist of the Renaissance.
In French artist continued to paint your favorite places in Moscow: China Town, Sretenka, Zachatievsky streets, where some of the monastery, in the extension of two-story house was his workshop, nothing remains of these houses of old Moscow in Moscow today.
After an early period of severe style in a palette Dronnikova had new paint, appeared expressive colors, the traditional Parisian school. On the painter's canvases appeared the image of France - the embankments and bridges of the Seine, Notre Dame, the inhabitants of Paris and its suburbs.
According to the French poet and translator of Leon Robel," Dronnikov - the most Russian of French and French to the best of Russian artists, and this gives his work an exceptional quality, which in the future both of his homeland will be able to recognize and assume their »...
As a true master of the Renaissance, Nicholas Dronnikov works in various genres - in painting, drawing, sculpture, doing work on ceramics, on a home printing press he printed more than 50 amazing handmade books, illustrated by hand. Thus, self-published his first poems published Larionov and Natalia Goncharova , found in their archives.
The first in the life of the artist's personal exhibition in Moscow presents scenic views of Moscow 1970, views of Paris and its suburbs, graphic portraits of famous contemporaries, watercolors, works on ceramics, hand-made author of the book.
The exhibition runs until 31 December 2010.
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