Exhibition of Nikolai Ryndin "Doors" Automatic translate

"Doors" - the first large solo exhibition of Nikolai Ryndin will be held at the Belyaevo Gallery under the curation of Daria Kamyshnikova and Alexander A. Burganov from January 14 to 30.

Nikolai Ryndin is an artist, teacher at the Moscow Central Art School (MTsKhSH) at the Russian Academy of Arts, author and host of the independent YouTube channel about art "Artobstrel", whose guests include famous people of Russian art: Dmitry Khankin, Ivan Lubennikov, Dmitry Gutov, Anatoly Osmolovsky and a lot others.

The Nikolai Ryndin exhibition will feature paintings, objects and installations. But the main thing is a series of works created on the basis of elements of traditional or auxiliary wooden architecture. The artist makes changes to the found objects by drilling, deformation or coloring and extracts additional aesthetic values ​​from them. Unexpectedly, wooden doors show us constellations and texts or become canvases of abstract expressionism; in other works, the faces of saints appear through the elements of a Russian hut. A series of works "Doors" was prepared by the author for several years and will be shown at this exhibition for the first time.

After the second “Global Flood” in the history of mankind, which took place in the form of socio-cultural transformations of the 20th century, fragments of the former world drift on the surface of the elements that have not yet receded: they have lost their function, changed their meaning, reminiscent of a suddenly bygone era. The exhibition is a museum of archaeological finds, in which the fossils of familiar images and symbols have grown. These things have not lost their subjectivity, each of them has its own destiny, and they become more and more isolated in themselves. Temporarily staying in an artist’s studio or exhibition hall will not stop their journey. We do not know where these doors led, and perhaps we no longer know where these images led. The artifacts presented at the exhibition are a reminder of the changes taking place with us and our culture.