"The Artist Nikich. The world inside and life outside"
ARTinvestment.RU   23 марта 2018

In the Engineering building of the State Tretyakov gallery opened the exhibition of Anatoly Yurevich. (1918-1994), dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the artist

the State Tretyakov gallery
14 Mar — may 13 2018
Moscow, Lavrushinsky lane, 12, 3-й floor

Anatoly Y. Nikich even during his lifetime was recognized as a professional criticism of the "modern classic", although the General public knows about it a little offensively. Nikich studied at the Moscow art Institute. V. I. Surikov, Boris Ioganson, Alexander Osmerkin. Today the artist's works included in the collections of many Russian and foreign museums.

the exhibition in the Tretyakov gallery exhibited 75 37 picturesque and graphic works, objects made of wood, photographs, archival materials, multimedia installation "AYU". In addition to the work of the Tretyakov gallery has provided the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin, the Confederation of unions of artists, Magnitogorsk art gallery, the family members of the artist and private collectors.

the Style., began to be defined in terms of the artistic ideology of the Stalinist model, took shape only by 1960-м years. Only then the author was able to experience and process the experience and trauma they grew up: the shooting of his father, Yuri Nikolaevich.-Криличевского in 1937, the arrest of the mother, Eugenia Pavlovna Krilichevsky, the evacuation of Siberia and Central Asia, participated in the great Patriotic war. Student of socialist realist B. V. Johansson and benovolehotska A. A. Osmerkin, Nikich 1960-е years has become known as the author of "the big picture" on the war stories ("war correspondents", 1965; "Forged copper", 1967, both — TG) and was recognized as one of the most prominent figures of the "severe style". His famous painting, "war correspondents", depicting the work and feat of the two front-line photographers, partly biographical. Despite the fact that this picture — one of the most iconic of the era of the sixties, Anatol. it is difficult to name a typical representative of the "severe style".

Nikich — inventor and Creator of the specific model of the world, the author of the concept "World in the artist's Studio", according to which all life, all sense of being concentrated inside the workshop. "In the Studio" — so-called and main loop works.. This large and small still lifes, in the space which the author "draws the rest of the world", — reproductions of favorite paintings, and your own graphics, colors and fabrics, cups and tools, subframes, icons, draping. Still life allowed Nikica to abandon the relevant topics and to share-то personal. In this genre, the artist was able to concentrate on experiments and form your own style that developed away from the main thoroughfares of Soviet art.

the goal of the exhibition-исследования — to present the work of Anatoly. from different anglesof view, to develop a new perspective on the place of the artist in the domestic arts 1950-90-х years. Thematically different exhibits objects and documents distributed at the exhibition into four sections. In the section "Meanings of movement, peace and resistance" presents major works of the master, reflecting the most important themes and ideas of his work. In the section "Contexts" joint work, revealing the links between the life circumstances of Anatolia. and changes of his artistic language, social-политических and cultural realities of the time. A significant part of the exhibition dedicated to the personality of the artist. In the documentary sections "Values and people" and "In the Studio" presents previously unpublished photos, videos@ - the audio@- and text documents about the key moments in the biography of the master, the circle of his friends, about the time when he lived and worked.

the Exhibition is accompanied by educational programme consisting of lectures, discussions and meetings with the curator —, the artist's son, art critic Georgy Nikich Anatolyevich.

Source: press-релиз GTG