Exhibition Arseny Blinova "Flowering Maidens"

The creative cluster "ARTMUZA" presents a new exposition of Arseniy Blinov "Flowering Maidens".

The exhibition will be held from February 6 to March 8, 2015.

Opening: February 5 at 19:00

Address: St. Petersburg, Vasilievsky Island, 13 line, 70, 2nd floor

FLOWERING VIRGINS

The naked human body captivates, attracts, repels, causes awe of bewilderment or a clear love feeling. How to return to him, replicated today, devoid of uniqueness, the meaning of once given passion and enduring memorable tenderness, without which it is impossible for a person to live? How to see it again, what needs to be found in it in order to relive the thrill of self-acceptance.

Today, the industry gives us the opportunity to embellish or disfigure ourselves, to meet glamorous megastandards, even while in the cell of a personal camera that has replaced the eye. Narcissus, recognizing himself in the river reflection as a matter of fact, died because he could not survive self-seduction, because better than his own reflection, there was already nobody.

Alizarin on white

The images of women written by Arseniy Blinov are generated by industrial needs, endless rows have accumulated, and they have become so numerous that they are already dusty. The root of the word industry, by the way, is dust, Greek dust. And the artist perfectly feels this, passionately, in the ecstasy of the individualist, painting not animate nature, but anonymous scans, some preparations necessary only for further industrial activity. And painting them, he is busy returning to them, anonymous, which became the coordinate points of the universal graphic matrix, the original love properties of the living, expressed only in the individual, in man-made boundaries and an identified color. This is such an impossible alchemy, a wonderful reverse work, when in the mishmash of dead elements, it is not the homunculus that arises, but the image of one’s own heart heat emerges, which is not possible by any means other than art.

Blue on gold

Therefore, the methods of transforming the print print appear so expressive that they seem naive and gentle. The artist gives them, anonymous torsos, the best that he can do - touch and color. He is wasteful and ardent, as if going on a date, where they are waiting for him and will be gifted with those things that everyone knows so unconditionally that they don’t even speak. This is such a universal one that at first glance does not need explanation, but it immediately ceases to exist and withers into an industrial circulation without our personal hymns and glorifications, like a trace of breath on a cold glass when we take a step back.

Kononov N.M.

CLOTHES FOR VENUS

The first erotic image I noticed was a black and white reproduction of Venus from the painting “Venus and Cupid” by Lucas Cranach the Elder. It was printed in a small format book, it was called the book Mythological Plots in Artworks, I was about 12 or 11. I was transferred to a tracing-paper and I manually multiplied it in various sizes and styles that were accessible to me at that age. Then, for her, various clothes were made for one purpose - to undress the goddess again and again. For this childish blasphemy, I was condemned and censured by parents and teachers, then.

Today I dress beautiful nudes in a variety of colors and textures of pigments, expressive strokes and occasional splashes. Let the nudity of each again become an exciting mystery.

Blinov A.I.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arseniy Igorevich Blinov

Born in 1972 in the city of Leningrad.

1983-1987 art school №4

1987-1989 school-lyceum № 190 at St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University named after Mukhina.

1990-1997 SPbGHPA im. Mukhina.

1992 joint exhibition with Philip Dontsov, St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 1997 he was admitted to the Union of Designers of Russia.

1997-2003 leading designer, DA&N advertising agency.

1998 1st place of the international festival "Dialogue of Advertisers", St. Petersburg, Russia.

1999 2nd place of the "Moscow International Advertising Festival", Moscow, Russia.

1999 Participant of the Cannes Lions International Festival, Cannes, France

2000 Finalist of the competition "Young Creators" of the "Moscow International Advertising Festival", Moscow, Russia.

2000 Finalist of the Moscow International Advertising Festival, Moscow, Russia.

2003-2007 art director of Time Out Petersburg magazine. The covers of the magazine No. 75 and No. 88 were marked as the best covers of the month according to the "Media Map of Russia" in 2005 and 2006.

From 2008 to the present, the art director of the publishing house Kommersant in St. Petersburg.

2010 “Asian House”, personal exhibition, St. Petersburg.

2010 “The Heart of Asia Beats”, collective, St. Petersburg.

2012 Elementary, personal exhibition, St. Petersburg.

2014 “Interior with a twist”, collective, St. Petersburg.

2014 "Waves" collective, St. Petersburg.

2014 "ART LAYER". Volgograd International Festival.

Works are in private collections in the UK, Germany, Russia, USA.

Publications:

“World of Design" 1999

“World Art Museum” 2006

“Expert Online 2.0” 2010 No. 6 (452)

“Turnkey” 2010 №7 (93)

“Time Out Petersburg” 2012 No. 12 (250)

“Kommersant“ Style ”” 2012 No. 103 (5376)

“Home & Decor” 2012 №6 (20)

“On the Nevsky” 2014 №10 (213)