Exhibition "The Konik Code" Automatic translate

Dates and venues:

Gallery VSEKOKHUDOHNIK: April 7 - 29. Free admission. Every day, except Monday, from 12:00 to 21:00. Moscow, Frunzenskaya embankment, 10 (entrance from the yard)

Gostiny Dvor: March 27 - April 24, 2022. Free admission. From 12:00 - 21:00. Moscow, st. Varvarka, 3, entrance 16, floor 2, hall 268.

The exhibition project "Konik’s Code" introduces almost for the first time the work of Mark Aleksandrovich Konik (1938–2012), one of the founders of Soviet artistic design in the mid-twentieth century and a subtle, unique painter. In the first part of the project, mainly works of non-objective and figurative cycles are presented - the exposition is open in Gostiny Dvor until April 24. And the second part of the exhibition project will be held at the VSEKOKHUDOHNIK gallery on Frunzenskaya Embankment from April 7 to 29 and will include works from the artist’s "Asian" cycle.

It should be noted that Mark Konik was born and lived in Tashkent until the 1968 earthquake. A designer, stage designer, painter, teacher, art theorist, he devoted his life to the origin and development of software environmental design in the USSR, that is, the design of public spaces.

Inspired by the works of Paul Klee, one of the pillars of surrealism (who was also a Bauhaus professor, the developer of the theory of color science) and the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich, the artist-philosopher Konik encrypted, “encoded”, shifted the surrounding, often dull reality into the language of an expressive artistic image.