Exhibition — anniversary. Shelkovskoy this year — 80. And celebrates it in a big way. A Central element of the exhibition in the Tretyakov gallery will become a giant sculpture, in which may be to move the audience

15 Dec 2017 — on March 25 2018
the New Tretyakov gallery
Igor Shelkovsky. City roads
Moscow, street the Crimean Shaft, 10

In the views Igor Shelkovskiy no longer a need. Although there were such times. An anecdote, when a gallery owner says: "What are you an artist if you are not in the log "And-Я the? — is just about him, the main editor of an important contraband magazine of contemporary Russian art, which was published in France from 1979 to 1986. The magazine was published with mock warning, "Materials, located in the USSR, are printed without their knowledge" in order not to bring trouble on artists in Russia. That sometimes helped, sometimes not.

Before emigrating to France (in 1976) Igor Shelkovsky has exhibited her work in the cafe "Blue bird" (mid 1960-х), came up with conceptual objects (since the early 1970-х), communicated with Bulatov, Kabakov, Juice (neighbors on Sretenka). One of the first buyers of his works were Costakis. And soon after the emigration of one of the works bought the Pompidou Museum — rare for our artists at the time.

Paintings, sculptures, reliefs Shelkovsky are increasingly becoming available on the public market. Sculpture the most. The auction record belongs to relief "Dialogue with Suprematism", which was sold in London in 2008 for $11 170. With this result the artist is included the top-100 artists-шестидесятников.

At the new exhibition "City of roads" will feature works from the Museum's collection of the Tretyakov gallery and from private collections.

Source: tretyakovgallery.ru

What else to read on the topic on AI:
artist of the week: Igor Shelkovsky;
Shelkovskiy Igor (1937);
AI: Sculptor Igor Shelkovsky, the exhibition "Constancy of change" on Ostozhenka.