A retrospective exhibition at the gallery of Alexander Kharitonov, "Our Artists" includes about 80 paintings and drawings, mostly from private collections in Moscow and covers all stages of the master

Gallery "Our artists," February 6 - March 25, 2012
19-th km of Rublevo Assumption highway gated Borki 36

In the gallery, "Our Artists" on Rublevo-Uspensky highway opened the exhibition "Alexander Kharitonov. Resurrection ».

Alexander Kharitonov (1931-1993) - an outstanding Russian artist and philosopher, one of the most famous and distinctive nonconformist 1960s. Among them, he occupies a special place. His art is not dedicated to finding new forms of savings is not the study of modernist Russian avant-garde and Western European art, not social protest, and the spiritual understanding of life. Alexander Kharitonov can be called a great romantic, storyteller and preacher of the good. But the most important in the work of Kharitonov's what the artist has revived, and at the same time, a new art of the Orthodox tradition has continued.

Alexander Kharitonov memory of ancient Russian art. 1971-1980 Oil on canvas. 80 x 91 Source: kournikovagallery.ru

retrospective exhibition at the gallery, "Our Artists" includes about 80 paintings and drawings, mostly from private collections in Moscow and covers all phases of the master. Opening of the exhibition is timed to the anniversary the artist's death.

«The Way of Alexander Kharitonov, both in art and in life - the path of spiritual ascent inflexible. In the late 1950s and 1960s, the artist creates a mysterious world of philosophical paintings, parables, visions, pictures, where can be seen from the start line of treatment to the Orthodox history and culture of Russia. 1970s 80s - the years of Kharitonov romantic Russian landscape as a philosophical picture of the universe, years of full withdrawal to the Orthodox paintings and graphics. On 1986, when Alexander Kharitonov partially paralyzed and he could only work with his left hand, and all the subsequent seven years of his illness, he considered himself a lucky man, because the disease has a schema. repeatedly survived clinical death, in his later works, he was able to show life as great gift and a holiday, as part of an endless eternity.

Alexander Kharitonov in the fields. 1976 Oil on canvas. 37 x 60 Source: kournikovagallery.ru

Alexander Kharitonov By the winter. 1979 Oil on canvas. 21,5 x 32,5 Source: kournikovagallery.ru

In contrast to today's megalomania, the work of Kharitonov's small in size, designed to close and quiet conversation. And each of them - as a gem, with hundreds of colorful and iridescent shades of meaning. technique itself, in which the artist works, like on the scattering of stones on the shimmering mosaic of fine glazes. Strokes - tiny and convex - lie always very accurate, merging into an amazing and harmonious picture. A miniature paintings themselves, in turn - in the suite, sparkling and joyful. Throughout the system, the artist feels a connection with the traditional medieval view of the world, with its wise interpenetration of the macrocosm and microcosm, is pervaded by light, and acceptance of all things »( T. Sokolova ).

According to the artist his painting as a technical and from a philosophical point of view rests on three pillars: the Byzantine and Old Russian icon painting, as well as the old Russian church embroidery, jewels, pearls, beads. his teachers, Alexander Kharitonov considered Dostoevsky, Gogol, Savrasov , Florensky and Mozart.

Alexander Kharitonov White King. 1963 Oil on canvas. 63.5 x 46,5 Source: kournikovagallery.ru

Alexander Kharitonov Untitled. 1962 Oil on canvas. 56 x 43 Source: kournikovagallery.ru

Works of Alexander Kharitonov are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Zimmerly Museum at Rutgers University (NJ, USA), as well as leading Russian contemporary art museums of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art ART4.RU, Museum "Other Art" (Moscow), the New Museum (St. Petersburg), in many private collections in Russia and abroad.

the opening of the exhibition catalog was published with articles by Tatyana Sokolova, the artist's widow and Professor, Doctor of Arts Mikhail Sokolov.

Source : kournikovagallery.ru