Exhibition of Andrei Bartenev "Electrodrist" Automatic translate

“A WHISTLE EXITS FROM A SOCKET WITH A SCRATCH - THIS SCREAMS FOR ELECTRODRISTS FREEDOM.” A. Bartenev.

He appeared in the permafrost zone - the city of Norilsk with permanently frozen land inhabited by people with "difficult destinies." But it was not the cold that invited the artist to this world, for he is peculiar, as Bartenev says: “not a passive, but an active living of life. During a constant internal experiment, unexpected things happen - so many things are fantasized and emotional. One gets the feeling that you are inside a huge water stream flying up. It passes through you, and you manage to fix only a small part of it. This stream, flying up (and not falling down dead weight), is striking in its endlessness. "

“RIDNISHED AND RIPPED, FRAMEED, HURRYS TO THE ELECTRONIC FIRM!!!” A. Bartenev.

At the exhibition in the Gallery will be presented 16 pencil drawings by Andrei Bartenev, A4 format and installation. He always draws when his hands are free, and the place and the situation do not interfere with the drawing process. For him, a drawing is a collection of ideas from which his grandiose works arise, a way to familiarize himself with the world, an expression of unity with him and his isolation, solitude in him. Each picture is an impromptu, momentary emotional-sensory experience, a flashed thought. “I just sketch everything in my notebooks, and consciousness is cleared. Again - youth inside, infancy and a beautiful clear snow field. And you can re-compose everything. This allows you not to die and keep such curiosity in life. " The hand draws an endless line forming abstractly figurative compositions. Flexible, winding threads flow, broken by corners, geometric shapes and symbols, pencil lines, creating dynamic structures - the "body" of the picture, enclosed in a white void of a paper sheet.

"EXACTLY AN ELECTRODRIST SLIDES FROM UNDER THE Eaves of Carriage." A. Bartenev.

So, the everyday life of the artist Andrei Bartenev, his everyday life and his holidays - an endless, uninterrupted stream of creativity. And what is the everyday life of each of us, how do our everyday life differ from holidays? During the anniversary exhibition of Bartenev on Gogolevsky, one could hear every now and then - were you on Bartenev? A visit to a landmark exhibition is a sign of “advanced”, often a tribute to fashion, but not always an internal necessity. In the dead of Soviet times, a joke even appeared on a similar occasion - “I went to Mona Lisa, I saw this Tutankhamun”.

"YOUR ACTRESS ASKS FOR RICE - SO GIVE THE ACTRESS ELECTRODRY!". A. Bartenev.

The purpose of this essay is not a comprehensive analysis of the work of the polyphonic artist, but an invitation to stop and see the intimate moments of the master’s work, the impulses of his grandiose synthetic projects. Units become creators, but understanding their art can be a celebration of the souls of many. And why "elektroodrist", and what is it. In Bartenev’s life, there were meetings not only with people, but also with physical phenomena. So, 20 years ago, its director accidentally checked the current strength by hitting a finger in a power outlet. Only Andrey’s heart-rending cry saved a man from electric shock. Once on a television show, Andrei was struck by the doctor Yakov Marshak with passionate slogans about the benefits of electric shock, and so that he immediately saw the doctor’s halo of electrogeny, probably as a result of his connection to the power lines.