Evgenii Rukhin

Из архивов: Светланы Дарсалия (Цхварадзе), Фонда Евгения Рухина, Галереи Джорджа Майерса, Профессора Нортона и Нэнси Додж, Доктора Сары Бёрк, Доктора Елены Корнечук, Грегори Винницкого, Музея «Другое искусство», Музейный центра РГГУ (коллекция Леонида Талочкина)

While talking about Rukhin, we first mention his taking aim in the current moment, in the present. He followed the sinuosities of political life and did play his part in it. He wanted to overcome the retrospective character of Leningrad art and its isolationism, he was driven to Moscow and did succeed in coping with that city: he befriended the most advanced Moscow avant­garde artists and, in a sense, became their leader. He found his general topic to match his political temperament: he expressed his critical position in non­narrative and non­painterly form by utilizing the newest expressive means he verified through the experience of international pop­art. His newest methods were extra­mimetic or, rather, quasi­mimetic.

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