Today at the Multimedia Art Museum opened an exhibition of nonconformist Oscar Rabin. The exhibition features 41 drawings from the collection of Alexander Kronik and 4 easel paintings from the collection of paintings Tsukanov Family Foundation

Multimedia Art Museum,
July 18 - September 8, 2013
st. Ostozhenka, 16

MAMM marks the 85th anniversary of one of the leaders of the Soviet nonconformist art movement, an outstanding artist Oscar Yakovlevich Rabin , presenting an exhibition of his early graphics. Most of the exhibits in Moscow audience will see for the first time.

OSCAR RABIN Self-portrait with fish and vinegar essence. 1965 Paper, pen, ink, watercolor Collection Alexander Kronik, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

OSCAR RABIN The base number 30. Moscow night landscape. 1968 Paper, pen Collection Alexander Kronik, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

The exhibition features 41 drawings from collection of Alexander Kronik and 4 easel paintings from the collection of paintings Tsukanov Family Foundation. Chronologically, the exhibits cover the earliest period of the artist's work - from 1954 to 1966. Some of the graphic work is described by text written by Alexander Kronik from the words of Rabin. They will not only clarify the context and situation in which the artist worked in the 1950s and 60s, but also provide a comprehensive view of the origin and development of its iconography.

1950-60-ies - extremely interesting and important stage of creativity Rabin. By this time, his first experiences in the spirit of "Russian Pop Art" - with vodka, maps, road signs and signboards, self-portraits and portraits of his wife ( Valentina Kropiwnicki ), fellow artists, Lianozovskoe" landscapes "with barracks - in fact, at this moment Rabin defines its own plot register, gradually work out formal techniques by which becomes quickly recognizable. Then, in the 1950s and 60s, it becomes apparent the inevitable break with the Rabin official Soviet artistic life, his paintings and drawings are contrary to the ideal picture of socialist reality, and September 29, 1960 the authorities launched a campaign of harassment of the artist in the press, began her article " Priests' Midden number 8 "," published in "Moskovsky Komsomolets". The exhibition shows a graphical version of the "Midden number 8," and the beautiful work, about which the Soviet journalist wrote: «'s dark and dirty canvas ... You see some gnawed bones, something disgusting intertwined, some black spines . Fat ... just reading the words "Garbage number 8," learn "idea" and "content" of this truly schizophrenic "canvases" ».

OSCAR RABIN Still-life with" Moskovskaya "vodka and candle. 1965 Paper, pen, watercolor Collection Alexander Kronik, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

OSCAR RABIN Moscow. Pipe area. 1961 Watercolour Collection Alexander Kronik, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

As a result of this campaign, Rabin left the USSR , was stripped of his Soviet citizenship and, according to the artist, lived his "third life in Paris».

separate unit on display are paintings from the collection of Tsukanov Family Foundation, the process of "creating "which can literally be traced by considering the graphical sketches Rabin, they fit the whole" Lianozovo universe "who lived, it seems, in the parallel space is much more complete and real life than the aggressive Soviet world.

OSCAR RABIN Visit! 1965 Paper, pen, watercolor Collection Alexander Kronik, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

OSCAR RABIN ragged rug with a portrait of Stalin. 1965 Paper, pen, watercolor Collection Alexander Kronik, Moscow Source: mamm-mdf.ru ​​

Since 1965, Rabin participated in exhibitions held abroad USSR. Eric Estorick (Eric Estorick), owner of the Grosvenor Gallery, organized the very first overseas exhibition of non-conformists in the 1960s, including the first solo exhibition of Rabin in 1965 in London. 8 pictures of Rabin's 1965-1966 Estorick Collection, recently acquired by the Russian collector and returned to Moscow, and MAMM pleased to present these works for the first time viewers.

Source: Press Release MAMM