Retrospective exhibition of Valery Yurlov "FORM FORMS" Automatic translate

On July 10, at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, a retrospective exhibition of Valery Yurlov “Pairs of Forms” will open.

Valery Yurlov’s works are inspired by innovative discoveries of the 20th century, which excited the imagination, inspired, fueled with ideas and provoked a craving - to discover something new in art that did not exist before. Valery Yurlov is one of those who managed to find their way in the creative space - into the world of amazing images and philosophical associations. Absorbed in his experiments, the artist comprehends and melts everything that attracted his attention into original artistic designs. Creative intuition prompted non-standard conceptual solutions, ideas were embodied in a series of works that formed the basic direction, which the artist gave the name "pair of forms", meaning two states of the object. He makes numerous experiments, comparing two similar objects: one of them is the initial one, and the second one, which has been exposed to time, the environment.

God and man. Colored plexiglass. 1997

“Very early I came to understand my chosen path. And when I first saw the work of Picasso and Pollock, it seemed to me that I already knew everything and came up with them. By the beginning of the 60s I deduced my formulas, and then I just followed them. ” These words of Valery Yurlov give the key to understanding the basis of his work, rooted in the ideas of the avant-garde of the first third of the twentieth century, shaped during the abstract experiments of the era of non-conformism, and which has been further developed today.

The exhibition features paintings, graphics and collages created from the 1960s to the present. The exposition will include a new work by V. Yurlov, as well as a documentary about the artist, shot during preparation for the exhibition.

The artist’s works are in museum and private collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery (Russia), the State Russian Museum (Russia), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia), the Georges Pompidou Center (France), the Zimmerli Museum (USA), the Duke Museum (USA), Hasid Museum (USA).

About the artist

Valery Yurlov was born in 1932 in Alma-Ata. In 1955 he graduated from the faculty of painters of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, where his teachers were S. Telingater, P. Zakharov, I. Chekmazov, P. Miturich, A. Goncharov, V. Favorsky.

Since 1956, he began to develop his own alphabet of geometric shapes (triangle, circle, drop), made his first experiments in studying the relationship of a pair of shapes - a direction that has not been studied by anyone before. In the 1960s, he continued to develop ideas for the interaction of a pair of forms in painting, graphics, collages, objects. In the 1970s, the idea of ​​“communications” was added to the topic of a pair of forms - the understanding of electrical systems whose “life” depends on the on-off button. Later, the "electric" theme will be embodied in the installations and objects of the artist.

Currently, the artist continues the development of his theory “Pair of forms”, expressing it in various projects, installations.

Yurlov’s first solo exhibition was held at the State Tretyakov Gallery in 1992. He lives and works in Moscow and New York.

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