Graphic hyperrealism by Sergei Geta in pop/off/art
ARTinvestment.RU   29 января 2018

1970-х 1987 Sergei geta was part of the group "Six", together with Sergei Bazileva, Alexei Tehilim, Sergei Sherstiuk, Igor Kopystiansky and Nikolai Filatov. With a new exhibition, the artist for the first time in many years returned to the large-format chart

the two thousand became cursed at times for hyperrealism in our country. A lot has changed too dramatically. In-первых, fashion. The public, escaped the space of the artistic variety to what-то time began to irritate any very clear images. And photorealistic scenes for its natural beauty — and even more so. People wanted to drive, what-то radical to surprise and beat backhand. And the ability to "draw like" seemed superfluous. Even worse: in any realistic figurative art (if it was part of the conceptualist movement) began to seem almost "salon". But the troubles did not end. The second global trend of the two thousandth was that the public ceased to alert excessive adaptability in the creation of works and automation of work of an artist. This in former times value was intended to be inseparable from the author's performing skills. And in 2000-х the degree of physical participation of the artist in creating the work has come to mean much less than his intellectual work. Yeah really, why the old-fashioned way? In our days, print on canvas, followed by lapping with a brush was not exotic, but quite common artistic technique. And where here old-fashioned craftsmen to compete with the advanced computerized equipment.

the Third curse for the Hyper was the Internet. We really began to see art on screens more often than in exhibitions. And the world of the era of "instagram" is a cruel: the artist is given a maximum of a couple of seconds to the user hooked on photography. So exciting concept for the Internet is much more important than a busy texture, which on the screen is simply not visible. Prism and filters are deprived of the sacredness of many of the artistic techniques. Finally, the fourth problem, the most important. A real manual hyperrealism, without printing on canvas and other process simplifications — is in an economic sense sverrishola practice. If not to say suicidal. Work on one drawing for three months in the market era — is a luxury, a relic of those times, when the Soviet Union did not spare money on art. But the Soviet Union ended, and today the sale of graphic works and paintings too difficult to recoup huge work to create them. Dynamic modern art-рынку need more affordable and, most importantly, faster material. And if "aktualschik" in top form is capable of producing material for 3 to 6 exhibitions a year, the mother "Hyper" for a single project can take years.

Sergey Goethe to create an exhibition Blacklead in the gallery pop/off/art took more than two years.

Project "Blackleg" (translated as "lead", i.e. a pencil) — is a huge almost half meter flipcharts with drawings handmade. Mechanization in his Arsenal is as simple, and that 40 years ago. Only-то inventory — enlarger, a projector, a tablet (this frame is made of wood, not iPad), pencils in hand. Of all the achievements of civilization — auxiliary computer that you can clean up the original image, Yes, a large monitor on which you can zoom in and see details original pictures.

In 1976, the artist, was nearly expelled from the Institute, arrived in Moscow. Here, the young and daring photorealist was in a more progressive environment. No, not in art-подполье, but in a quite formal system of organization of the artistic process, where he was the all-Union exhibition, international triennial and regular acquisition to the art Fund. The government in those days tried to create artists a comfortable environment to live and work, that workers and employees could only dream of. Geta says that, for example, the contract for 6 of the drawings, the artist could receive a fee of 3000 Soviet rubles, ie 15 months salary or half of the "Lada". Not by chance in those years was the Prime of giperrealisticheskie of animation (download the children at least "Polygon" to understand what I mean), inspired of book illustration and easel graphics.

Almost half of the exhibition presents Blacklead drawings not yet lost architectural forms of the Soviet era. They shot at ENEA. Without purpose. It is also a return to 1970s-е, at a time when young Kiev artists hunted with cameras for the elusive reality. Their favorite place then was ENEA, and art reception — spontaneous "unconscious" photography. The viewfinder is not used, the camera during shooting hung from neck, it turned out photo impromptu, random, essence, perfomative practice. Then the most interesting negatives, printed photos, which are additionally modified in the process developer and became the basis for the further carrying on the canvas or paper. The other part of the exhibition — is practical Russian pop-арт implemented Hyper realistic means. Images for it was household items of the Soviet era: the blade is Voskhod, and faceted glass.

the Geta, his real Hyper realistic old school need to watch exclusively live. Especially in pop/off/art graphics dare show without glass as it is. Defenseless paper literally radiates light and heat. Alas, through the monitor this radiation to feel impossible.

Published a gallery of prices on the paintings of Sergey Geta —€7 000-12 500 per sheet. The exhibition will end on 28 February 2018.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

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