Art Gallery "K35" with Lazarev Gallery (St. Petersburg) are a solo exhibition of the outstanding Russian artist

Art Gallery "K35", May 17 - June 17, 2012
Moscow, B. Savvinskiy Lane, 12, page 6

Art Gallery "K35" with Lazarev Gallery (St. Petersburg) present the exhibition "Oleg Tselkov. XXI Century "- a personal exhibition of the outstanding Russian painter, one of the leaders and instigators of unofficial Soviet art. Included in the exhibition paintings will be shown in Moscow for the first time.

Oleg Tselkov Source: Press Release Art Gallery «K35»

Oleg Tselkov lives in Paris since 1977 and is the only artist-immigrant to be awarded the prestigious independent award" Triumph ". The unique handwriting and characters Tselkova paintings became his trademark throughout the world. Once acquainted with them, you will never forget them.

Works Oleg Tselkova - is recognizable and incredibly art status. After the forced emigration from the USSR in 1977 the artist settled in France. There, he had not previously interested in the history of painting, he rushed to study the museum collections, exhibitions, interiors, literature ... All these experiences have helped him even more to believe in the light of its star. "My character, who was born in Russia, continues to live in exile, matereya" - spoken by one of his interviews.

Oleg Tselkov Two. 2006 Oil on canvas. 97 x 130 Source: Press Release Art Gallery "K35»

Describing his own work, Oleg Tselkov says: "... when suddenly I was this mug, it became clear: this person is not a specific person, and humanity in general, as a whole. That is, I, unwittingly, accidentally pulled the mask from off all faces at once. I did not set the task "to pluck the mask", and I saw no "bad" or "good", but something more authentic, subcutaneous. And the fact that each of us under the skin, brings all of us. I can not have a specific claim to any man, but I'm more than a specific claim to the mass of people who each other are humiliated, tortured, sent to the light. These claims I may have and the past and the present and the future ... »( M. Pozdnyaev Oleg Tselkov." I accidentally ripped the mask from humanity » //Novye Izvestia. October 29, 2004).

Since 2007, numerous sensational started selling paintings by Oleg Tselkova on leading auctions worldwide. The most expensive thing turned out to be non-conformist of hot purple poster "Five Faces" (223,194 pounds) and work "Boy with balloons" (238,406 pounds) - the results are recorded at the auction MacDougall's in 2007 and 2008. Pictures of the apparent simplicity Tselkova almost impossible to fake: the repetition of the many subtleties and nuances of the transition of color and light, complex background palette is easily given to someone else's hand.

Oleg Tselkov face and hands. 2007 Oil on canvas. 130 x 97 Source: Press Release Art Gallery "K35»

Oleg Tselkov Theatre. 2008 Oil on canvas. 97 x 146 Source: Press Release Art Gallery "K35»

Art of Oleg Tselkova not left indifferent to both specialists and many prominent figures of art and literature. According to well-known French art critic and theorist Andre Parinaud, "in the construction of tracks can be found Tselkova monumental dynamism that primal force that is a naive soul of art».

Joseph Brodsky: "Oleg Tselkov - the most prominent Russian artists of the postwar period ».

Another Russian artist, , sketched in 1986 by a small sketch of Tselkova, resorting to the most energetic formulations: "Oleg Tselkov - creator of the wonderful cocktail of the XXI century. This is a dangerous mix of light and shade of Rembrandt, Rubens, lush flesh, multiplied by the power of the Russian madness and barbaric spirit ».

Tselkova paintings are in the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin (Moscow), the Hermitage and Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Zimmerly Museum at Rutgers University (NJ, USA) in the collections of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, George Costakis, Arthur Miller, in numerous private collections in France, Russia, the United States.

Source : Press Release Art Gallery "K35»