Galeev Gallery, October 25 - December 11, 2011

Creativity Isidorovich Mitrokhin is well-known art lovers. He is one of the most important Russian charts of the twentieth century in the chamber genre.

Dmitry Mitrokhin Self Source: Press Release Galeev Galleries

Dmitry Mitrokhin Three pears and an apple Source: Press Release Galeev Galleries

Mitrokhin grew up in Eisk, a city founded in 1848 in the territory conquered by Russia from the Turks. Grandfather - the head of the city, organized the first printing press in the city. The boy was shrouded atmosphere of books and observation, leisurely walks and talks - a remote corner of the lumbering capitals carefully nurturing a future star of Russian alphabet. Maybe not for nothing hatched, - who would have become "so sincerely, so tenderly," chant the edge of his childhood - Calendar of Berezhki and boats. Who else could be so in the south had a good write fruits and nuts, flowers and vegetable gardens.

Calendar of hearth and home were to Mitrokhin's starting point, he was inspired, remembering his childhood warren, singing them in their amazing prints, but later and more in his work not inferior to one another, Petrograd - Leningrad and Moscow marginal backwater in those years - street racing and Race.

In Moscow, the artist did a great job: who else in the country learned about these streets with a horse's toponymy, of darting back and forth in trucks and onlookers, to begin construction in Moscow Khrushchev (who dostoyali to this day, recalling the old truth that any temporary becomes permanent). The capital was built in front of an artist who is watching it every day from the window of his modest abode. Not because of his troubled urban development program of the then Executive Committee, and esthetically, is visionary.

other items Mitrokhin caressed in his engravings, steel shores and islands of the Leningrad Karpovka green areas, after 1934 of the year called the Kirov. Time dictated otherwise: new housing construction projects, parades, squares and avenues, everywhere the same: a "new man", "class struggle", "union towns and villages." Mitrohinskie walking was allowed to "feel the difference ': in fact the smell of grass Yelagin Island, dust bridge in Petrograd, fishing for carp on Karpovka not less glitzy feel of a big city. True, the idyllic picture offered by Mitrokhin, also painted shades of "subjective idealism" - things of concern to the time that distract from the joy of creation. But as an artist and spoke to quite unbanal topic - "Aviation Day", for example, or "cross sport", the author was to be suspected of "counter-revolutionary" mood.

Dmitry Mitrokhin Footballer Source: Press Release Galeev Galleries

Dmitry Mitrokhin Fruit shop Source: Press Release Galeev Galleries

That way - with three homes - with their creativity Mitrokhin able to reconcile the 'three sources and three component parts "of the Russian historical, economic and socio-cultural layer cake: both the capital and provinces.

The exhibition includes works from the collection of Yuri Rusakov - Leningrad researcher and author of the most comprehensive scientific monograph on the work of the master, which was published in 1966 and to this day do not lost relevance. The collection - hundreds of works of art easel and engraving. After the Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin is the second largest collection of D. Mitrokhin.

Source : press release Galeev Galleries