Barabanov E. Boris Orlov

Author	Barabanov E.
Title	Boris Orlov
Description	In Russian art of the last half-century, Boris Orlov occupies a unique position: he is the creator of his own myth, his own artistic system, and his own distinctive—and instantly recognisable—visual language and style. Even back in Soviet times, his sculpture managed to achieve the seemingly impossible — to captivate the viewer by bringing face to face the traditions of classicism, modernism and the avant-garde, which history had driven apart. Both then and now — whilst tirelessly avoiding the pitfalls of eclectic stylisation — the artist consistently demonstrates a rare unity of qualities: clarity of original ideas, extreme precision of form, powerful energy and intellectual sophistication. The ‘Apollonian principle’, to which the artist himself likes to refer, is quite rightly identified by him with the heroic principle. It is precisely this heroic line that Boris Orlov champions on the contemporary Russian art scene. This is not merely a question of themes and narratives, the specific nature of expressive means, dramaturgy or artistic preferences, but also of the steadfastness of her own independent stance in art. The artist remains true to this stance to this day. Today, Orlova is rightly referred to as a ‘classic of contemporary Russian art’. Her works are held in the collections of the world’s leading museums and private collections: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Museum of Modern Art, MoMa (New York), Art Institute of Chicago Museum (Chicago), Museum of Modern Art im Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst (Aachen), Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst (Budapest), Collection of Contemporary Sculpture, Olympic Park (Seoul), The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick), Tate Gallery (London), State Tretyakov Gallery, A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Shalva Breus Collection, Moscow House of Photography, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Novy Foundation (all in Moscow) and other collections, domestic and foreign.
Year	2014
Publisher	Breus
Pages	444
Cover	Hardcover
ISBN	978-5-9904620-2-1

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