Yuri Tatyanin. 60/30 Automatic translate

From November 10 to December 5, 2023, the Rostokino Gallery of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association will host the exhibition “Yuri Tatyanin. 60/30.” The Moscow public will get acquainted with the works created by Lipetsk artist Yuri Tatyanin over the past 5 years. The personal project is timed to coincide with two anniversaries. In 2023, Tatyanin turned 60 years old, and exactly 30 years of his creative activity are also celebrated.

In 1993, the self-taught artist, in order to break out of the usual philistine circle of life, for the first time picked up brushes and paints, as well as canvas, hardboard, plywood, burlap and thread - these are the materials that Tatyanin uses in the works presented at the exhibition.

The artist creates works with personalities from the world of art, as well as with heroes of folk tales, complementing many works with ironic inscriptions, short stories, slogans, slogans, and even warnings, often with a current social agenda and references, both to the world and, most importantly, to Russian culture.

The exhibition will be part of a series of projects dedicated to a look at the “Russian style” from the 21st century, which are taking place throughout the 2023-2024 art season. in different galleries of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association. The curators of the series explore how contemporary authors of various directions interpret the very concept of “Russian style”.

Yuri Tatyanin actively uses in his work the traditions of Russian folk art - folk facial sewing, wood carving; creates wooden toys. The plots of his works are deliberately fabulous, playful, and also often refer to Russian folk traditions and look at the same time very modern and completely traditional.

The artist has been consciously following the path of popular print and naive art for thirty years, since he has always been interested in the idea, and not in the form of its embodiment. Art critics define the artist’s main direction as “conceptual primitivism,” and he calls himself an “intuitive naivist” and “a genius of the Lipetsk land.”

Bright, colorful, sometimes shocking, but attractive characters, illustrated stories with assemblage inclusions, grotesque and even shocking character are inherent in the works of a modern nonconformist artist who opposes officialdom and the system.

Yuri Tatyanin is an active participant in international, Moscow, regional and regional exhibitions. Works are in the State Russian Museum, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel, Lipetsk Museum of Folk and Decorative Arts, in many large private collections.

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