The name of the artist associated with the most daring and fantastic experiments in the Russian art of the twentieth century

TG on the Crimean Val, Hall № 13, October 4, 2011 - February 26, 2012

Today in TG in the Crimean Val opened the exhibition "Endless Tatlin Great Bowl" dedicated to 125th anniversary of Vladimir Tatlin .

Vladimir Tatlin Evgrafovich (1885-1953) - a key figure in Russian avant-garde," the inventor of the "new art forms, one of the founders of constructivism. His name is associated with the most daring and fantastic experiments in the Russian art of the twentieth century, bringing together the plastic and spatial forms, artistic and utilitarian properties of materials, which gave the opportunity to completely destroy the illusion of pictorial plane and bring it into a real three-dimensional space.

«Endless Tatlin Bowl Great, do not drink, not only him - the same generation." These words of Nikolai Punin draw art Vladimir Tatlin in the future, Emphasizing the special capacity to self-development ideas and forms of living in nature and in art.

Tatlin - one of the most mythic artists of the twentieth century . The fate of his legacy is dramatic. Almost all of his experimental works have been lost and we know from photographs and descriptions of his contemporaries. Survived only two genuine kontrrelefa and one of the models Letatlin. That is why the study of creativity Tatlin in recent decades, both in Russia and abroad are closely related to the problem of reconstruction of his works.

The objective of this exhibition - the main show, though a few works of Tatlin period of its innovative search and experimentation. The exhibition features approximately sixty works by the artist 1900-20s from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, State Central Theatre Museum Bakhrushin and private collections in Moscow. This is a pictorial, graphic and theatrical works, as well as reconstruction of the most significant works of Tatlin, not surviving.

Vladimir Tatlin seller of fish. 1911 Canvas, distemper. THG Source: Press Release TG

Vladimir Tatlin Nature-morte. Bouquet. 1911-1912 Oil on canvas. TG Source: Press Release TG

early period in Tatlin's work related to painting. After a short stay in the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow, studied at the Penza Art School, communication with formed Tatlin as a brilliant painter and draftsman. Acute observer of nature and the investigator of nature, touches of ancient iconography and fresco painting in the beginning of his career, was "deeply zacherpnuvshy cubism" and felt the element of popular theatrical activity, he created a synthetic language of painting, it singled out among all contemporary "isms».

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Vladimir Tatlin The Model. 1913 Oil on canvas. THG Source: press release TG

paintings of the 1910s, the time of the active participation of Vladimir Tatlin in the avant-garde movement in the exhibitions of "Jack of Diamonds", "Union of Youth", the First Futurist Exhibition "A Streetcar B", "0.10" is not a lot. The exhibition "The Model" (1913, TG), "Bouquet" (1911, TG) "Portrait of M. Fabry '(about 1910 RGALI.) Graphics those years that is included in the exhibition, allows us to trace the artist comes to a free bouncy lines, a general form:" Raising the matches "(c. 1910. Paper, ink. TG), "Portrait of K. Malevich" (1912-1913. Paper, pencil. RGALI).

Inspired by the experiments and the "material selection", Tatlin in 1914, ceased to paint (up to 1930, when he returned to it again after the completion of the Letatlin). This coincided with his return from Europe, the participation in the Russian handicraft exhibition in Berlin and visit Paris, where he met Vladimir Tatlin with Picasso. In May 1914, he organized the "First exhibition of paintings reliefs" in the studio with the installation Ostozhenka slogan: "Put the eye under the control of touch." exhibited "Kontrrelef. Material Selection" (1916. THG) - one of the few original works by the artist.

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Vladimir Tatlin Counter-relief (material selection). 1916 wood, rosewood, spruce, and metal. TG Source: Press Release TG

invented Tatlin " Scenic kontrrelefy "model grandiose monument III International utopian project Letatlin aircraft that made his name world-famous neighbors in his practice with the modeling of objects of everyday life. With regard to all aspects of life that accompany a person's life from birth to death, Tatlin shapes modern life, stripped of style and aesthetics of past eras, bringing in a clean and concise lines and forms a great new art. Reconstruction of objects tea set (1923, reconstructed 2004), long sleigh (1927-1929, reconstruction of 2007), the console chair (1929, reconstructed 1986) - striking examples of the integration of art into everyday life. Like other "production art» ( Stepanov , L. Popov , A. ), Tatlin worked out a model of everyday women's and men's clothing, which will also include reconstruction of the exposure.

Vladimir Tatlin Tower International. Wood, metal. THG Source: Press Release TG

Moving towards a synthesis of forms in space, Vladimir Tatlin worked for the theater. The exhibition will feature lists of his early sketches, performed for staging the play "The King and his Unruly Maksimyan son of Adolf" (1911), as well as a large series of theatrical charts for Glinka's opera "Life for the Tsar" (1913). innovative performance "Zangezi" on a work by Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Tatlin with which connected the friendship, their language and form of the anticipated contemporary theater. The exhibition will include set and costume designs, "Laughter" (1923), "Grief" (1923) and others, some of They can be seen embodied in the material due to modern reconstructions (reconstruction of costumes, "Woe," "Laughter," "Soldier-epileptic" met workshop "Culture of Materials" under the leadership of N. Dimakova (Penza).

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Vladimir Tatlin Antonida . Costume design for the opera "Life for the Tsar». 1891-1910 cardboard, graphite pencil, glue paint brush. THG Source: Press Release TG

Vladimir Tatlin Bogdan Sabinin. Costume Design for an act of Glinka's opera "Life for the Tsar» .1913 Cardboard, gouache, tempera and pencil. THG Source: Press Release TG

Vladimir Tatlin Forest. Set Design. 1913. THG Source: Press Release TG

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Vladimir Tatlin « Spassky Gate. "Sketch scenery epilogue to the unfinished opera Glinka "Life for the Tsar". 1913 cardboard distemper. THG Source: Press Release TG

Vladimir Tatlin Polish ball. Set Design. 1913. THG Source: Press Release TG < /span>

Simultaneously with the exhibition of Vladimir Tatlin's Tretyakov Gallery presents "Work Club» Alexander Rodchenko . coincidental is the neighborhood projects that complement each other, reflect important principles of constructivism early twentieth century, to build category to the level of functional aesthetic.

special supplement of the project, the corresponding synthetic nature tatlinskogo talent will be a performance at the opening song "Kontrrelefy Sound" by Vladimir Tarasov (Lithuania), together with the choir of the church of St-Museum Nicholas Tolmachi at the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Source : TG press release