Vladimir Dubossarsky
& Alexsander Vinogradov
New Painting
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Painting was
seen as the lowest art form, the most commercial, not really
art at all and Social Realism was the most discredited style,
a dead language. We started conversing in that language.
Vladimir Dubossarsky
Vilma Gold is pleased to present Dubossarsky & Vinogradov’s
third solo exhibition in London. The exhibition comprises of
new painting, which portray female figures and objects in underwater
settings.
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov began their collaboration, in Moscow,
in 1994. Their early paintings played heavily on a post Soviet
view of Western capitalist society, which they depicted in all
its excesses. Sex, drugs, film stars, heroes, and politicians,
etc… were all heaped together in a state of orgy and delight.
Furthermore all of this was funnelled through the traditionally
conservative Soviet painting genre of Social Realism.
At the beginning of their collaboration they found themselves
surrounded by a Moscow art scene that was hierarchical and near
impossible to penetrate. In the late 1980s and after decades
of hiding from the strict authorities the Moscow Conceptualists
had become a closed sect with their own esoteric, vernacular,
language. By the time this underground movement was able to
surface from its subterranean den it had almost entirely retreated
from object making into an obsession with pure theory. In the
early 1990s the gravitational pull towards their ideas dominated
most of the Moscow art critics and younger artists found it
difficult to find any senior allies. Dubossarsky & Vinogradov’s
early paintings took Moscow by storm. Here were two painters
no longer concerned with receiving qualification from their
theory dominated predecessors. Rather, they embraced the new
influx of imagery provided by a constant stream of western media
and advertising.
Dubossarky & Vinogradov both live and work in Moscow. Their
work has been exhibited widely internationally and has recently
been seen at Venice, Sao Paolo and Tirana Biennales, Deitch
Projects, New York, XL Gallery, Moscow and Galerie Krinzinger,
Vienna. Their work has also been featured in the recent publications
Charley 1 and Vitamin P.
For further information or images please contact Sarah McCrory:
+44(0) 20 8981 3344 or: sarah@vilmagold.com |
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
Night Figure, 2004
oil on linen
195 x 295 cm
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
Girl Beach Ball, 2004
oil on linen
195 x 195 cm
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
Autumn March, 2004
oil on linen
195 x 195 cm
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
Nose, 2004
oil on linen
145 x 195 cm
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
Afterparty, 2004
oil on linen
70 x 50 cm
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
Arm, 2004
oil on linen
50 x 70 cm
Dubossarsky & Vinogradov
Untitled (sinking torch), 2004
oil on linen
65 x 58 cm
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