In the Paris Museum of Modern Art, an exhibition of some 150 works by one of the brightest representatives of the Paris School of Sergei (Serge) Polyakova

Museum of Modern Art, Paris
October 18, 2013 - February 23, 2014

The Museum of Modern art in Paris opened a grand retrospective of one of the brightest representatives of the School of Paris , a native of Russia , an abstract painter Sergei ( Serge ) Polyakov . The exhibition presents about 150 works spanning the period from 1946 to 1969 . Polyakova solo exhibition of this scale was not in Paris since 1970 .

SERGE POLES abstract composition Around 1968 Private collection © ADAGP Paris, 2013 Source : mam.paris.fr

SERGE POLES Abstract composition . 1950 Wurth Museum © ADAGP Paris, 2013 Source : mam.paris. fr

The exhibition is built around the key works , from the experiments of the postwar period, when the Poles are constantly involved in art galleries , to more moderate modernist works of the late period .

Like all abstract art , Serge Polyakov troubled relationship lines and surfaces , form and content, color and light. The apparent formal unity of his work , in fact hides a lot of different artistic techniques . The differences are determined by the concentration of color , rich textures, masterful distribution of forms , which are in a balanced , energetic interaction. Serge Polyakov work of exquisite sensuality and spirituality .

SERGE POLES wall composition 1965-1967 Unterlinden Museum , Colmar © ADAGP Paris, 2013 Source : mam.paris.fr

SERGE POLES gray-blue. 1962 Private Collection, Paris © ADAGP Paris, 2013 Source : mam. paris.fr

About Polyakov design talent can be seen in the examples of his ornaments on fabrics, stained glass , ceramics. The exhibition concludes with a group of gouaches . There are information and mass of documentary material - photos, videos and audio files that describe the life Polyakov - from bold initiatives of the young emigrant and his post-war artistic environment before the arrival of success when creativity Polyakov interested people from the world of fashion , politics , movies ( Yves Saint Laurent , Greta Garbo , Anatole Litvak , etc.). In the 1960s, young artists are seen in the Polyakov one of the radical modernists in painting.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources: mam.paris.fr , artinvestment.ru