Exhibition of works by Vladimir Tishin (1963-2015) "POETICS OF THREE MEASUREMENTS"

February 27, 2018 at 16 00 in the halls of the Russian Academy of Arts at the address: st. Prechistenka, house 21, an exhibition of works by the famous Moscow sculptor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts Vladimir Tishin (1963-2015) "POETICS OF THREE MEASUREMENTS" opens.

The creative heritage of Vladimir Viktorovich Tishin, marked by high professionalism, is extensive, many life phenomena, various philosophical and philosophical and stylistic ideas are reflected in it.

V. Tishin was born in Moscow in 1963. In 1985 he graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (formerly Stroganov). Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1989, participant in numerous Russian and foreign art exhibitions, international sculpture symposiums, where he was repeatedly awarded the title of laureate.

A multi-faceted creative person, he worked with equal success in both monumental and easel sculpture. V. Tishin is the author of monuments and monumental and decorative compositions installed in parks and squares of different cities of the world. The breadth of themes and plots of his easel works is noteworthy. The theme of the confrontation between good and evil, eternal themes, organically included in his art in the 1990s, were peculiarly refracted in his work.

Constantly experimenting, the sculptor demonstrated excellent knowledge of various materials: bronze and stone, marble and wood, gypsum and fireclay. Depending on the material, his works vary markedly in the manner of execution and methods for solving plastic problems. V. Tishin is consistent in his desire to “think in material” and in understanding his essence, therefore the sculptor subtly took into account the properties and characteristics of various materials. It is interesting to note that he sometimes tinted a wooden sculpture, covered it with gesso and gilding, or left it untouched in its natural primacy.

In the early period of creativity, the artist enthusiastically worked with wood, which provides ample opportunities for solving various plastic problems. Then he created the works “Grandma”, “In Memory of the Russian Village”, “Steps”, “River”. His sculptures, looking up, were supposed to create a feeling of lightness, like Gothic plastic. At the same time, the elongated proportions, flattened forms were the result of an appeal to the Russian icon and folk art. At the same time, the compositions “The Way”, “King and Queen”, “Full Moon” testified to the fact that V. Tishin was close and the constructive beginning to which he turned, without complicating the form due to textured strata and colorful decor.

Throughout almost all of his creative activity V. Tishin kept pace with the times, inventively and artistically solving all new tasks of a formal and substantial plan. So, in the “Portrait of a Stranger” carved from a single block of wood, the composition “Fatherhood”, the generalization of forms is akin to the methods of working in stone, so the figures acquire timeless content. V. Tishin continued his search for his own style in bronze, approaching a more free and at the same time classical interpretation of round sculpture, as, for example, in his compositions with female figures from the Amazon series, also marked by an expressive beginning.

In recent decades, the sculptor has increasingly turned to the gospel theme - "Dream by the Sea" and "Renunciation of Peter." Their plastic solution is restrained and concise, but the dynamics of composition, the freedom of the relationship of figures in space confirmed the author’s openness to experiment. At the same time, V. Tishin is characterized by an alternation of figurative and abstract forms, which allows expanding the range of understanding of easel and monumental in plastic.

The exhibition presents about 50 works of V. Tishin, made over the past decades, among them - works from the portrait series 2003-2012, from the series “Old Photos”, in which the images of his contemporaries and historical figures important to the sculptor are reproduced from almost photographic accuracy, without "sharpening" the artistic image. The basis of the work “Portrait of a Grandfather” and “The Last Emperor” was based on photographs, and the artist deliberately repeated the real features of the portrait, carefully preserving the authenticity of the details. He followed the same path of nature in work on portraits of his colleagues — O. Slepov, L. Baranov, in “Portrait of A. Blok” and “Portrait of Son”.

Easel works of the master are adequately represented in the collections of art museums in Russia, in public and private collections in the USA, France, Japan and other countries.

The exhibition runs on March 18.