MAX. Graphic arts Automatic translate

The exhibition in Korea will feature 32 graphic works by Max (1957–2012), a Russian artist and performer, representative of the Leningrad underground.

In 1994, MAKSA emigrated to Hamburg, maintaining close ties with Russian culture, friends from Russia and St. Petersburg. During the Hamburg years, MAXA studied new artistic means and possibilities, experimenting with the basic elements - a dot and a line, which led to its abstraction. She developed a handwriting that gave her works a recognizable character: initially, trying to save on materials, the artist used old industrial cardboard, manually applying glaze on it. She cut, scratched and scraped the drawings from dots and lines on these surfaces, creating the effect of depth, then covered them with dark paint and completed the work with thick strokes of paint. At the works of MAXA, one can see clusters of points similar to galaxies, compositions of thin lines, sometimes heads that accidentally arise from a point, a comma or a stroke. Not all works are named, but all of them are united by a characteristic ease and determination. Abstract forms are full of energy that everyone who was lucky to see the artist during her performances remembers.

Max is the creative pseudonym of Lyubov Maksyutina.

Lyubov Alekseevna Maksyutina was born in 1957 in the Urals.

From 1975 to 1979 she attended art and craft school in Nizhny Tagil.

From 1982 to 1987, Max studied at the school. V. I. Mukhina at the Department of Industrial Design at the experimental course of Professor E. N. Lazarev. She was a member of the group SVOI (1987-1992), which brought together artists of various directions, and is known for her performances and creative actions. She was in the circle of artists of Pushkinskaya 10.

Exhibitions

• - 1987–91 Numerous exhibitions and performances in Leningrad
• - 1993 The first major exhibition in the Logensaal hall of the Hamburg theater Hamburger Kammerspiele
• - 1994–98 Many exhibitions and performances.
• - 1999 Project Kunsttreppe Arts Ladder in Hamburg, Dresden Summer Academy festival, project in the Hamburg City Hall
• - 2000 Project “East Paradise Express. Location: Homeland”Commeter Galerie Gallery, Hamburg.
• - 2001 Gallery "di Imparato" Salerno, Italy
• - 2002 Cultural Center Kulturrathaus in Dresden. "Leave" in the Hamburg subway. “The meaning of the game and the game of meaning” - festival “eigenarten”
• - 2003 "Dome" in the Kunsthalle art gallery, Hamburg. "Shadows - metaphosphose-1", Hamburg. Katya Dreams, Bonn
• - 2004 “Shadows-metamorphoses-2”, Hamburg. Katya Dreams, Potsdam, Moscow
• - 2006 “Weightless” in the Weiss und Heller Gallery, Hamburg, “Great Fruit” in the St. Jacobikirche, Hamburg
• - 2008 “Nothing-Point-Portrait” in the gallery C15, Hamburg
• - 2010 “Geometry of Experiences” in the Levantehaus Gallery, Hamburg

The exhibition is held in two stages - Pushkinskaya 10 and Borey - in cooperation with the Hamburg Artists’ Forum.

Artists Heritage Forum

A non-profit organization, founded in Hamburg 15 years ago, which became the co-founder of the Federal Association of Artistic Heritage in 2017, accepts and preserves works by artists from Northern Germany. Often, the legacy of artists falls apart and is lost before it can be fully cataloged. Sometimes the works of artists are stored in inappropriate conditions due to a lack of space, knowledge and financial resources from the heirs. Thus, researchers lose access to the heritage of artists, and their work remains outside the scientific field of vision. In most cases, museums are also not able to accept the artist’s heritage as a whole, so there is a need for an institution specializing in this issue.