May 18 on the main floor "of the Agency. Art Ru »opens the exhibition" trail ", which will be painting the artist Victor Sedov

«Agency. Art Ru », May 18 - June 5, 2012
Moscow, Ozerkovskaya Quay, 26

May 18 on the main floor "of the Agency. Art Ru »opens the exhibition" trail ", which will be presented to the artist's paintings .

Victor Sedov exhibition brings together works by the artist created over the past five years. The moment that one of the first fixed gaze: genre, dominating in the exhibit - a genre of landscape, it not only sets the general tone of it, but also contains a number of conceptual art's started.

Victor Sedov Winter Garden. 2009 Oil on canvas. 130 x 140 Source: agencyart.ru

Victor Sedov Goats and rain. 2003 Oil on canvas. 60 x 70 Source: agencyart.ru

kind of speculative daring way to "turn the world", to any characteristic of the artist, the Sedov interpreted in a special way: as an attempt to see the novelty in everyday things, infinite complexity in simplicity, which in its entirety represents a landscape medium strip. Despite the undeniable recognition shown, if soaked in the subconscious of the viewer - the March country road, the first snow, summer field with a low air hmuryaschimsya - Victor Sedov picture is not flat, and his vision is not naturalistic. The artist just notices the fine line of reality and abstraction, which balances the man in every moment of his life: for example, the image of the tree, and whether a field or a nameless snowy village are not just fixing the event (or, indeed, for event-free), but readable symbol. It is no accident in the paintings of an artist not a single human figure, landscapes, devoid of plot, deprived of all the dynamics that inevitably informs the film character is a pure, unalloyed transmission of mood - a chain of free associations, at the behest of the author are relegated to the viewer. However, these paintings are lifeless also called impossible: no accident, according to the author, the difference between the demand in the art nude human nature and the naked tree, winter is not so principled: individuality, character and history - and in fact, and in another case, a claim is quite confidence.

The work of Victor Sedov appropriate to talk about in terms of music: so common to calm tone, the muffled sound and at the same time - a deep expressiveness. In favor of this interpretation and the color aspect: the dominance of light blue, gray, brown "earth" tones on the canvas and not by accident. "Recently a man's life is much brighter than it actually is, thanks to a computer, television, advertising," - says the artist, opposes that imposed by the brightness of neutrality, but at the same time and complexity of gray (the wealth of which are known to at the time he pointed ).

Victor Sedov football field. Nostalgia. 2008 Oil on canvas. 120 x 110 Source: agencyart.ru

Victor Sedov Bakery. 2008-2009 Oil on canvas. 100 x 110 Source: agencyart.ru

succession of works of Victor Sedov, in relation to the Russian landscape painting is unquestionable, their brevity and moderation as not disclosing , but only reveal the internal energy of the audience and the integrity of the image, and implicitly refer to a different cultural tradition, no less powerful and influential. Implicitly discern in them kinship with the traditional Japanese aesthetic of wabi , which implies "modest simplicity" of things with intelligible aesthetic charge, regardless of how they are accustomed eye, even banal. With all this modern landscape artist certainly, in the absence of industrial facilities and other visual markers of the present existence of an appreciable within the "here and now" does not cause the viewer doubt. This, in turn, raises a number of very serious issues persuasion: the interactions of the urbanized man with nature, with their own kind, to yourself. philosophical subtext, however, filed an artist without pathos and postures: a thoughtful contemplative calm, generally characteristic of the art of Victor Sedov - creativity, presents itself as a work linked with the profession in the highest sense of the word.

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