EXHIBITION "THOUGHTS AND THINGS" Automatic translate

On June 28, the Rosewood gallery opens the “Thoughts and Things” exhibition, where it will show Denis Milovanov’s design objects and abstract painting of the Soviet period. The gallery continues the indicated course for a combination of two areas - design and art.

A new interpretation of the “Russian” theme and a rethinking of traditional motifs in furniture and household utensils brought Denis Milovanov international fame. Successful participation in PAD, Design Basel, AD Collection and other exhibitions and fairs made Denis’s style recognizable in the West. And if the collection design there has long been firmly in trend, in Russian art galleries this is still a fairly new phenomenon. The exhibition in Rosewood will be the first example of the presentation of a modern Russian designer in the gallery space.

The SOHA Concept line, like all of Milovanov’s work, is inspired by the gloomy and romantic aesthetics of the Russian North, its traditions of working with wood. The expressive sculptural forms of familiar subject archetypes - cabinets, chests of drawers, chairs - elevate these things to the status of art objects. All of them are unique, handmade by sophisticated technology - the tree is impregnated or boiled in oil, processed with a benzo saw and a chisel. This production method eliminates the possibility of repetition, which makes each object collectible. Perhaps all of this, coupled with the author’s energy, gives rise to that mysterious calm that blows from Milovanov’s objects.

Brutal minimalism Milovanov organically coexists with the expression of abstractions of Marlene Spindler, Boris Turetsky, Evgeni Mikhnov-Voitenko, Yuri Zlotnikov, Vladimir Yakovlev and other famous masters. All of them are people of difficult destinies, as is often the case with great artists. Incredible inner freedom and integrity were their happiness. The phrase "Soviet abstract art" sounds strange in view of the understandable antagonism of meanings. Here the word "Soviet" can only be used when speaking of an era.

Separation from world trends, the inability to check with contemporaries in the west makes these works even more significant.

Obviously, in the middle of the twentieth century, abstract art was a universal organic development of artistic thought. The exhibition in the gallery Rosewood does not pretend to be inclusive, it is rather a slice of time tied to the genre of abstraction. And also the personal taste of the owners.