Alexander Ishin. Paradoxes of the ordinary, commonplace or mainstream art
ARTinvestment.RU   21 ноября 2011

November 25 in Moscow exhibition hall "A3 Gallery" opens a personal exhibition of Alexander Vladimirovich Ishin, timed to the 70th anniversary of the artist

A3 Gallery, November 25 - December 11, 2011

November 25 in Moscow exhibition hall " Gallery A3 "opens a personal exhibition Ishin « Paradoxes of the ordinary, commonplace or mainstream art "timed to 70th anniversary the artist.

ALEXANDER Ishin shop. 1966 Oil on canvas. 60 x 80 < /td>

ALEXANDER Ishin Dining Room number 2. 1969 Indian ink. 50 x 70

this remarkable master, one of the masters of native art art critic surprisingly accurately described magician who transforms ordinary, everyday space into a space filled with romance oberiutov . In fact, if there's search for the sources and analogues ishinskogo space, we first come to mind Harms, Vvedensky, Z, other members of the real art of the Association. And, of course, with Viktor Shklovsky's theory of estrangement : the author, to find out the true nature and essence of even the most banal utterances and back image of the original meaning, pulls it out of the familiar, petrified, zashtampovannogo context. And then the most ordinary things appear to the audience in a different, "strange" and an unexpected appearance. Actually, Alexander Ishin shows the world around us in its original , naturally, not through the prism of backlog in the minds of prejudices each of us.

ALEXANDER Ishin Norilsk. Road. 2009 Oil on canvas. 100 x 120

ALEXANDER Ishin The working village. 2011 Oil on canvas. 50 x 70

turns out, houses, fences, attic windows, rural households with cats and roosters and, most importantly, the people of our contemporaries - all that fills our minds - not at all what it is. We only think that the context in which we live, exhausted and therefore not so interesting. In fact, everything around is full of mysteries and riddles, and their task Ishin artist sees it, to offer all of us to participate in the experiment of Creation. As a result, we gain the chance to look at what is happening around untroubled, unblinkered and eyes wide open and see how anxious and touching everything in the first hour and minute of birth, and - at the beginning of separation between matter and mind.

ALEXANDER Ishin At the Circus. 2010 Oil on canvas. 100 x 100

ALEXANDER Ishin The game of cards. 2010 Oil on canvas. 95 x 95

To its credit, Ishin, he managed to avoid the temptation to edification, "serious" relationship to of life. Language in which the artist speaks to the audience, too ostranen: preferred master pragmatic attributes of our time - the irony, defiance, ridicule, and paradoxes. No wonder the author was at the forefront of Soviet non-conformist, was in the midst of combating a conservative system for the new art. To be understood by the authorities, pioneers and disturber of the peace had to find a weapon against the party actually varnishes with their mechanical schemes, standards and templates. Trump card in a tense and painful dialogue was romance with a taste of irony . And as the field of battle perfectly dominant in the era of Khrushchev's thaw brand - communism. Before Ishin and his associates was to oppose the official, the battalion romance - an informal, frank, informal. Rigidity and mossy power - the romance of building a brighter future in which, by and large, no one believed. Hence the ironic view of the world. Tactics and strategy born of themselves: do not give a utopia for reality, but to separate the art from the ideological environment, using the variety of styles and trends.

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ALEXANDER Ishin Bulldozer. 2011 Oil on canvas. 60 x 70

Like all classics of the sixties, Ishin was a lifelong romance with the ironic worldview . Communism is the actual problem of power long ago shifted to the collective unconscious, but the specter of a common cause and symptoms are still apparent in the reaction of "common people" - the main character Ishinskih canvases - to current events. And Alexander Ishin can only feel the mood and aspirations of the dear and close to his heart compatriots.

Igor Dudinskiy

Alexander Ishin was born in 1941 in Ufa, where his family was evacuated. Since 1942 lives in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow secondary art school at the Surikov Institute, and in 1966 the Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov class W. F . Ryndina and Kurilko .

student went on a creative trip in Norilsk. In the magazine "Youth" was held on the first solo exhibition of works devoted to the life of the northern city and performed in unusual for that era naively romantic style.

worked in many genres - from painting and graphics to facades and interiors of public buildings in various techniques (relief, mosaic, tempera painting, wood carving).

ALEXANDER Ishin Santa Claus. 2010 Oil on canvas. 70 x 70

The first paintings of the influence of the national popular prints, kitsch postcards, urban folklore, naive art. In the early stages he paid tribute to "rural" category. Over the years gave way to ornamental spiritual quest for philosophical and expressive.

more than 13 years in the State Specialized Institute of Arts, where he studied creative rehabilitation of people with disabilities. For five years he was its rector. author of many scientific and methodological articles, summarizing his own creative and educational experience.

Honored Artist of Russia. People's Artist of Russia.

Today, the artist has formed around a fairly wide circle of admirers, his works have become increasingly popular among connoisseurs of modern art.

Talk dozens of solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including the U.S. and Europe.

works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, the collection of Ludwig (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art in Tsaritsyno, the Museum of Marc Chagall ( Vitebsk), the Museum of Contemporary Art "Mars", as well as many museums, collections and collections in Russia, Germany, USA, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England and Israel.

works for the exhibition Gallery A3 provided by collectors Yuri Gurov, Alexander Mironov, Anna Moreva, Lyusine Petrosian, Irina Shirinyan, Andrew Pospelov.

Source : press-release