Once upon a time in Russia. Painting by Vladimir Daybov

The exhibition "Once Upon a Time in Russia" by one of the leading Russian artists Vladimir Daybov, a master of contemporary landscape, a laureate of the Prize named after Deineki, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, was opened as part of the long-term program "Russia in Erarta" for the period 08/23/05/11/18.

Vladimir Daybov was born in the Urals, formed in the creative atmosphere of Leningrad in the late 1970s, and was influenced by Russian avant-garde, German expressionism, and the Leningrad underground. He studied at the Serov Art College with Georgy Guryanov and Viktor Tsoi, and saw the birth of a rock club and a protest culture. But the subsequent time of changes for him was not an era of total spectacularity, but a time of concentration and the formation of his own style outside the bustle of metropolitan art life.

He, like a Buddhist, escaped from the wheel of the megalopolis’s life, from the carousel of vanity, got off the train in quiet Kursk in order to feel himself and the worldless world around. For some - the time in the province - stopped, for Daibov - it stood up and condenses, cleansed from fuss to a plastic formula. In his deserted landscapes there is a condensed substance of contemplation, transmitting not the variability, but the constancy of being.

The artist’s works possess the properties of symbolism, plasticity, generalization, he uses pasty, dense writing, clearly defined forms, contrasting color relationships. But the works of Vladimir Daibov are not just visual facts and finds from the life of color correlations in the developed channel of mastery, they are a kind of metaphysical landscapes that can sometimes infect the viewer with the longing of life and the unexpected beauty of everyday reality.

One of the first to pay attention to his work was the renowned art critic and contemporary painting expert Ivan Borisovich Porto (1939-2009), vice president of TLC. The work of A. Daybov was recognized among the professional art community, in 2010 - he was elected chairman of the Kursk regional branch of the Union of Artists of Russia, his exhibitions were held in a number of cities from the Black Earth Region to Siberia, from the Urals to St. Petersburg.

At the exhibition in Erarta, more than fifty works by the artist of recent years, thematically related to St. Petersburg, the Urals, the Volga - Levitan’s Plyos, the Russian province.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Daybov

1952 was born in the city of Revda, Sverdlovsk region
1980 graduated from the Leningrad Art College. V. Serova
1987 member of the Union of Artists of Russia
1990 creative trip to Germany (Speyer)
1994 graduated from the creative workshop of painting by the national artist of Russia A. Levitin
1994, 2005, 2006 diplomas of the Union of Artists of Russia
2002 First Prize of the Governor of the Bryansk Region “For the Best Landscape” - inter-regional exhibition “Young Russia”
2003 Associate Professor, Department of Drawing, Kursk State University
2006 diploma and prize named after A. Deineki (established by the governor of the Kursk region)
Since 2010 Chairman of the Kursk Regional Branch of the Union of Artists of Russia
2014 Honored Artist of the Russian Federation

Currently lives and works in Kursk.

The works of V. Daybov are presented in the collections of:

Russian Academy of Arts,
Directorate of art exhibitions of the Russian Federation,
Erarta Museum of Modern Art (St. Petersburg)
Kursk State Art Gallery. A. Deineki,
Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore,
Surgut Art Museum
Belgorod State Art Museum,
Museum of Modern Landscape (Ples)
Vologda Gallery of Modern Art "Red Bridge", as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.