Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a large-scale retrospective of Olga Tobreluts - pioneer of media art and the author of the large-scale video installations

MMSI, January 24 - February 24, 2013
Moscow Ermolaevsky lane. , 17

Moscow Museum of Modern Art opened a retrospective exhibition Olga Tobreluts , the master of media art and the author of the large-scale video installations. Referring to one of the first modern computer technology, Olga Tobreluts already in the early works came to own unique and highly recognizable style.

• The ups and downs. 2012
  oil on canvas
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• Abstraction. 1989
  oil on canvas
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starting point in the creation of artist has participated in the exhibition "New Artists" at the Leningrad Palace Bridge in 1989, where Olga Tobreluts demonstrated their abstract paintings.

Shortly after the show, Olga moved to Moscow and settled in Petrovsky Boulevard , in the squat at Petliura, where she continued to work on abstract painting and graffiti.

In the 90 years she often went to college ART COM in Berlin, where he met with computer technology under the guidance of Professor Ulraha Wahlberg. The artist has radically altered his style, stopped painting and went head to computer graphics, combined with photography and 3D-models. The desire to create a three-dimensional computer modeling of the human figure, which is close to the realism of the academic drawing, brought her to the ideas neoakademistov, and in 1994 it became part of the New Academy of Fine Arts - the movement, formed in December 1989 and became one of the most significant features in contemporary Russian art. Became a professor of the Department of New Technologies, Olga became the "engine" of the trend - Bruce Sterling called her "Helen of Troy with a video camera and a computer." A number of important works that reflect the meaning of the whole movement, have been created by Olga Tobreluts.

She builds a completely new reality that transcends the historical context and is much closer to "our" time. Its ornamental myths associated or not associated with classical mythology, always talking about the present. In fact, the stories become effective Tobreluts artistic ploy that makes a work of art available to the modern audience. Aesthetic choices shape varies, it goes from reaktualizatsii mythological figures, dear to the history of Western culture. Each of us can see in her mythological constructs something from their everyday surroundings.

• Venus Pacifist. 2003
  Print. Collection MDF
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• battle naked. 2011
  oil on canvas
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In the early 1990s in a series of "Model "the artist" revive "the ancient statues, giving them photographically accurate and flawless body and dress in the clothes of fashion brands. The series won first prize «Griffelkunst» for the best European computer graphics (along with artist Orlan). In 1999, at the "Heaven" in the Tate, she showed a new series of "Sacred Figures", in which the old portraits were new faces.

of Olga Tobreluts receive international recognition, get on the cover ART , ATTITUDE, Dusseldorf Hefte, The Observer Magazine, and many others, receive international prizes. In 2000, Olga started to work on a massive project - a series of 54 works "Emperor and Galilean" the drama by Henrik Ibsen, a series exhibited at the Henie Onstad Museum in Oslo, and then in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

Since 2003, Olga almost completely ceased to work with the computer and went back to painting. Using ancient painting techniques, she was able to find his brushwork and follow the path of its development, in parallel experiment with chemical compositions of colors to enhance light transmission scenic opportunities.

Retrospective in MMSI gathered not only well-known series and individual works of artist from several museums and private collections, but also the first to show its experimental work.

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