Pavel Popov "BURNED EDEM" Automatic translate

One must have special courage and faith in art with a capital letter, faith in his mission in this world, in order to work in our time in the traditional painting technique (canvas, oil) and in the classic version of the picture. Throughout the twentieth century and to this day there is an opinion that both painting and painting survived themselves. The exhibition of works by Pavel Popov convinces us that the picture at the present stage receives a new breath. If an artist possesses professional skill, a philosophical outlook on the world, if the history of culture and art is for him a single space in which he is free to navigate and live, then the most interesting way to express himself is through a picture. Work with the painting for Pavel Popov is conceptual in nature. The master thinks in terms of classical art and not only knows the history of painting, but experiences and feels the work of the old masters as living beings with whom he is interested in communicating. At the same time, the most diverse phenomena both in painting and in other types of creativity, including the latest trends using non-traditional materials and the artist’s work methods, are no less attractive to him. Moreover, it is extremely important for him to ensure that the pulse of modern life beats in his work. At this crossroads of interests, the main positions of the master’s work are formed, which programmatically remains in the canvas space and uses exclusively oil paints.

“This exhibition is dedicated to artists of my generation - people born in the Soviet Union and living in the anti-utopia“ Russia Today ”. The Soviet myth of the beautiful was incredibly strong, inside our caste it sounded like a hymn to “eternal values”, like “beauty will save the world”. It is difficult for us, artists who have not parted with canvas and colors, to believe that Picasso and Miro, Matisse and others are not the final point in the development of art, that there will be something else. About us, confusedly wandering through the halls of various biennials, hoping for a recognition that will catch up with us, believing that time will put everything in its place, about us - the next “lost generation" - this exhibition.

Pavel Popov

Pavel Popov

Born in Moscow, 1958. Lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Art School, 1976 Graduated from the Moscow Art Theater. Surikova, 1985 Member of the Union of Artists since 1987 Exhibited since 1980. Member of numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Pavel Popov’s works are in the State Russian Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in art museums in the cities of Yaroslavl, Arkhangelsk, Tula, Yekaterinburg, New Jerusalem, Vologda, as well as in private collections in Russia, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, France, Italy, and the Czech Republic, Austria, USA.