Exhibition of Alexander Savko "Suprematist tragedy" Automatic translate

The famous artist Alexander Savko is also known for his artistic provocations and insinuations, the essence of which lies in his artistic method. Born in sunny Moldova (Bender) and having learned to be an artist in no less sunny Odessa, he arrived in Moscow with three graphic sheets, which immediately went to exhibitions in Russia and Europe. The artist’s creative life was successful, but after looking around, Alexander saw that the authentic culture and art that he intended to serve were unknown to society. It, society, is captured by bright advertising, cartoons, comics, and generally all kinds of Western glamor. This general glamorization has led people to seek truth from psychics, sorcerers, healers, etc. Instead of culture and education, they are called "education." And then Alexander stole these images of media trash and placed them in the space of famous paintings by famous masters, so that the spectators carried away by his provocations would turn to genuine culture. The method has proven effective. However, in 2011, the artist began to play so much that his picture, where a character similar to Mickey Mouse spoke the Sermon on the Mount, was condemned in Tarusa, the sentence was a ban on publication, after which it was reproduced in the media more than 200 times. What was the veggie time - no watering of urine or brilliant green, or destruction of an object offended in feelings.

There are no provocations in this draft of Alexander Savko. The artist returns to the viewer a wonderful country of childhood, immersing him in a fabulous space. Here is Alyonushka, and Prince Gwidon with Tsar Saltan, and three damsels, and even Koschey, racing frantically on a hot horse. The characters are dressed in 17th-century costumes, and in general, the author uses the fabulous style of Ivan Bilibin. However, the artist expects the most active participation of even the most passive viewer. For, peering at Savko’s canvases, we notice that the faces of our beloved heroes are confused, and the gestures are defensive or attacking. Something incomprehensible, dynamic, aggressive, expressed in abstract forms, invades the space of a fairy tale.

So the artist metaphorically speaks of an extremely serious, dangerous phenomenon - the attack of Western glamor on the Russian art known since ancient times - Suprematism in order to capture its territory. Suprematism (known since ancient times) was especially evident in the "squares" of K. Malevich. Moreover, in the 50s of the last century, that is, in the era of oppressive worlds of Suprematism and Western glamor, Malevich’s White Square on White became a source of inspiration for new European art - “poor art”.

Now Suprematism (Russian, known since ancient times) is again subjected to the aggressive influence of new glamorous trends. The artist presented this situation with a series of works where knights in ancient armor with spears and lances at the ready rumble through the canvases into the realm of pure Suprematism. The fact that this is a battle with Old Russian Suprematism is indicated by the picturesque fragments on flags and armor associated with the works of Miro, Leger, Mondrian, Debuffe, Polok and others. The artist, as it were, appeals to the viewer - these cultural invaders, Western aliens seek to win and push back down is our Suprematism.

In this context, it seems to us that A. Savko, acting as an observer of modernity and an art historian, deliberately and not without irony creates an ambiguity between the illusion of battle and the invitation to think about the openness of art, its limitlessness. Each of the artists cited by Savko is the face of the multifaceted personality of the author himself. In the absurdity of his elegant metaphors, in an ironic and parody form of expression lies, on the one hand, the affirmation of the value of everything in everything, on the other - the artist’s normal doubts and admiration for high art. Meanwhile, vortices arising from the collision of opposite meanings rage on Savko’s canvases. The paintings are being monitored. Irina Filatova