Exhibition "Eduard Gorokhovsky. Unlimited Space" Automatic translate

EDUARD Semenovich GOROKHOVSKY (1929, Vinnitsa, now Ukraine - 2004, Frankfurt / M, Germany). A classic of Moscow conceptualism, the founder of the domestic “photo-based art”. A piece of paper, a canvas, the master called - "my limitless space." The exhibition presents drawings, watercolors, etchings, collages, photograms, graphic sheets made in mixed media.

A lot of articles have been written about Eduard Gorokhovsky, a number of catalogs of his exhibitions have been published, so it seemed to us valuable to bring the artist’s statements about himself and about creativity. E. Gorokhovsky wrote: “I am convinced that art is created by some higher forces with the hands that these forces choose. Often the owner of these hands is not always adequate to what they create - this discrepancy can make a bad impression on the exhibition, on the presence of the author. These two things - the works themselves and their author - are so separated from each other that it is better for the author to stay away from his works. “(To the exhibition in the Russian Museum, 2004). From the catalog for the exhibition “Square, square again,” 2001: “… I somehow took root in the idea that a significant work of art has many degrees of freedom, and a mediocre one has only one. This is the timeless value of a thing that constantly gives an impulse to reflection, provoking its own judgment and interpretation. ” E. Gorokhovsky recalled: “I graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Odessa Civil Engineering Institute in 1954 with honors, but my architectural career ended two years later in Novosibirsk, where I was sent to work. I went into a free, but risky voyage into the ocean called "art." He started with a book illustration. ”

E. Gorokhovsky moved to Moscow from Siberia in 1974, having met in 1972 with a group of artists called “Sretensky Boulevard”. Here is what he wrote about that time: “Then, in the sixties and seventies, unofficial art was truly free, since it was not exhibited, not sold, and was absolutely not ideologized. Later, when perestroika began, this art ceased to be a political and ideological crime - it, as it should be, turned into a commodity and gained its monetary equivalent… The seventies were filled with intensive work on the search for a new plastic expressiveness. Constant communication of artists with each other, discussion of what was done, friendly discussions - yielded results. About any exhibitions or publications then there was no question. I think that everything done by this group of artists (I. Kabakov, V. Pivovarov, E. Bulatov, etc.) is distinguished by its unclouded purity and selflessness. This art was truly free. Then, together with perestroika, the difficult, painful process of integrating Russian art into world culture began. ”

In 1973-1974, the artist’s creative concept was formed, his own individual method, manifested in the manipulation of photography. In 1974 he first painted a picture - canvas / oil, being until then exclusively a schedule. Actually from this time the phenomenon appeared, or on the modern slang - the “brand” Gorokhovsky. Eduard Gorokhovsky participated in about 250 exhibitions, his works are in museums and private collections around the world. Irina Filatova