In the Arts, opened the first retrospective exhibition of works Vakhtangov "Counterpoint." The exhibition spans more than three decades of the artist and represents more than 100 of his works

Arts, April 10 - May 2, 2012
st. Prechistenka 21

yesterday in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts opened the first retrospective exhibition of works of corresponding member of Academy of Arts Vakhtangov "Counterpoint." The exhibition spans more than three decades of the artist and represents more than 100 of his works.

EUGENE Vic Source: rah.ru

EUGENE Vic Source: rah.ru

Evgueni Vakhtangov (born 1942) was named in honor of his grandfather, a renowned director Vakhtangov. After graduating from the Moscow Art School, he entered the Moscow State Art Institute. Surikov, the studio theater and decorative arts. The institute among his teachers were the leading masters of the domestic arts - B. F. Ryndin , D. D. Žilina , MM Kurilko-Ryumin. Already in the 1970's Eugene Vakhtangov has been actively exhibiting as a painter in Russia and abroad. The fame of the artist brought the work of landscape painting, and in 1974 he was admitted to the painting section of the Moscow Union of Artists.

EUGENE Vic Source: rah.ru

EUGENE Vic Source: rah.ru

In the 1980s, Eugene Vakhtangov gradually move away from traditional figurative art, using in his work experience postdadaizma, post-and neo-primitivism, minimalism, abstract art and the formal experimentation of "classical" avant-garde. According to art historian and theorist, art critic Nikita Macha, at this time "... finally loses all color decoration, typical of his palette, not only in the early fovistskom segment ... On the canvas, there is either something phantasmagoric, like the outrageous apocalyptic abyss, or laid out complicated conglomeration structure, giving the pictorial hieroglyphics plastic, ready to withstand the pressure of meaningful speculation ».

EUGENE Vic Source: rah.ru

EUGENE Vic Source: rah.ru

This is a masterly Juggling semantic and visual capabilities of modern machine-made art Vakhtangov one of the prominent actors of contemporary artistic life. In the 1990s he became one of the participants in the art of "Polygon" and, simultaneously, began to teach painting at the Faculty of scenography of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS). During this period, created the work, the style which the author defines as "spontasyur." By the end of the 1990s Vakhtangov almost completely abandons the traditional principles of fine and continues to experiment in the field of non-figurative art. Classified by their "artifacts" is difficult enough, but stylistically, they tend to be Dadaist assemblage and abstract pointillism.

master's works are in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and other leading museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.

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