OLEG TSELKOV. XXI
exhibition in LAZAREV GALLERY
exhibition in LAZAREV GALLERY
On April, 22 LAZAREVGALLERY opened one-man show of the outstanding Russian artist, one ofleaders of informal Soviet art, Oleg Tselkov «OLEG TSELKOV. XXI CENTURY». Paintingsof this exposition will be presented in Russia for the first time!
Oleg Tselkov lives in Paris since 1977 and he isthe only one from the artists emigrants, who has received the honorary "Triumph"award. Heroes of Tselkov’s paintings are well remembered — once having seen, willnever forget …
« ...WhenI’ve suddenly seen this mug, I realized: it’s not a face of somebody, but a faceof mankind in whole. Actually I accidentally put off the mask from all thefaces at once. I didn’t task to “tear away the masks”, and consequently I’veseen not something good or bad, but something real, genuine, that we’ve gotunder our skin and what brings us together. I can’t have a claim on somebody inperson, but I have a claim on the masses humiliating, torturing, killing eachother. These claims I have the right to have on the past, on the present and onthe future...”
Tselkov’s paintings are appreciable,prestigious and, at last, influential. In 1977 the artist has been compelled toemigrate from the USSR.Having settled in France,Tselkov has rushed to study museum collections, exhibitions, salons, literature… All these impressions have helped him definitively to believe in the light ofhis star. «My character, appeared in Russia, continues to live onforeign land, matured», – said the artist in one of the interviews.Characterizing his work, Oleg Tselkov says: “ ... When I saw this mug for thefirst time, it became clear: this person was not the concrete one, and mankindin general, in whole”
And I, that without knowing, hascasually pulled a mask from all humankind at once. I didn't put a problem «tobreak masks», and I have not seen "bad" or "good", andsomething more original, hidden. And that at each of us under a skin, pullstogether all of us. I can't have concrete claims to one person, but I have morethan the concrete claim to weight of people which each other humiliate,torment, do in. I have the right to have these claims both to the past, and tothe present, and to the future... ». M.Pozdnjaev. Oleg Tselkov.« I havecasually unmasked mankind »//New news. On October, 29th 2004
Since 2007 numerous sensationalsales of Oleg Tselkov’s paintings at leading auctions of the world have begun.«Five persons» (223 194 pounds) and work «the Boy with balloons» (238 406 pounds) –such data was at auction MacDougall’s in 2007 and have appeared 2008 the mostexpensive thing of nonconformists is burning-violet poster. At visiblesimplicity of a plot it is very difficult to forge Tselkov's paintings –repetition of numerous subtleties, color and light transitions, a difficultbackground palette easily would give out another's hand. For Oleg Tselkov's creativityexperts assume usual price «career growth», peculiar произве¬дениям recognized artists, – 20–25 % a year, and forthe best things and masterpieces – 50 % a year there are more! (On materialsARTinvestment.RU)
According to the known French criticand the theorist of art of Andre Parino, «it is possible to find the monumentaldynamism, that primitive force which is naive soul of painting» in constructionof Tselkov's composition.
Tselkov’s art hasn’t left indifferent either art historians and critics oroutstanding cultural workers. According to Joseph Brodskiy, “Oleg Tselkov isthe most eminent and great Russian artist of the whole postwar period”.
Tselkov’s works are in the following museum collections:
The Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, Holland, The State Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow, Russia, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, The StateFine Arts Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia, The State Russian Museum of Arts, StPetersburg, Russia, The State Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, UlsterMuseum, Belfast, Ireland, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, OlympicMuseum, Lausanne, Switzerland, Yakohoma Art Museum of Tokyo, Japan, ZimmerliArt Museum, New Jersey, USA, Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina, USAand in many private collections.
Oleg Tselkov lives in Paris since 1977 and he isthe only one from the artists emigrants, who has received the honorary "Triumph"award. Heroes of Tselkov’s paintings are well remembered — once having seen, willnever forget …
« ...WhenI’ve suddenly seen this mug, I realized: it’s not a face of somebody, but a faceof mankind in whole. Actually I accidentally put off the mask from all thefaces at once. I didn’t task to “tear away the masks”, and consequently I’veseen not something good or bad, but something real, genuine, that we’ve gotunder our skin and what brings us together. I can’t have a claim on somebody inperson, but I have a claim on the masses humiliating, torturing, killing eachother. These claims I have the right to have on the past, on the present and onthe future...”
Tselkov’s paintings are appreciable,prestigious and, at last, influential. In 1977 the artist has been compelled toemigrate from the USSR.Having settled in France,Tselkov has rushed to study museum collections, exhibitions, salons, literature… All these impressions have helped him definitively to believe in the light ofhis star. «My character, appeared in Russia, continues to live onforeign land, matured», – said the artist in one of the interviews.Characterizing his work, Oleg Tselkov says: “ ... When I saw this mug for thefirst time, it became clear: this person was not the concrete one, and mankindin general, in whole”
And I, that without knowing, hascasually pulled a mask from all humankind at once. I didn't put a problem «tobreak masks», and I have not seen "bad" or "good", andsomething more original, hidden. And that at each of us under a skin, pullstogether all of us. I can't have concrete claims to one person, but I have morethan the concrete claim to weight of people which each other humiliate,torment, do in. I have the right to have these claims both to the past, and tothe present, and to the future... ». M.Pozdnjaev. Oleg Tselkov.« I havecasually unmasked mankind »//New news. On October, 29th 2004
Since 2007 numerous sensationalsales of Oleg Tselkov’s paintings at leading auctions of the world have begun.«Five persons» (223 194 pounds) and work «the Boy with balloons» (238 406 pounds) –such data was at auction MacDougall’s in 2007 and have appeared 2008 the mostexpensive thing of nonconformists is burning-violet poster. At visiblesimplicity of a plot it is very difficult to forge Tselkov's paintings –repetition of numerous subtleties, color and light transitions, a difficultbackground palette easily would give out another's hand. For Oleg Tselkov's creativityexperts assume usual price «career growth», peculiar произве¬дениям recognized artists, – 20–25 % a year, and forthe best things and masterpieces – 50 % a year there are more! (On materialsARTinvestment.RU)
According to the known French criticand the theorist of art of Andre Parino, «it is possible to find the monumentaldynamism, that primitive force which is naive soul of painting» in constructionof Tselkov's composition.
Tselkov’s art hasn’t left indifferent either art historians and critics oroutstanding cultural workers. According to Joseph Brodskiy, “Oleg Tselkov isthe most eminent and great Russian artist of the whole postwar period”.
Tselkov’s works are in the following museum collections:
The Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, Holland, The State Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow, Russia, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, The StateFine Arts Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia, The State Russian Museum of Arts, StPetersburg, Russia, The State Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, UlsterMuseum, Belfast, Ireland, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, OlympicMuseum, Lausanne, Switzerland, Yakohoma Art Museum of Tokyo, Japan, ZimmerliArt Museum, New Jersey, USA, Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina, USAand in many private collections.
