Moscow Museum of modern art and the heritage Foundation of artist A. D. Tikhomirov is represented 10.12.2015 exhibition of one of the brightest representatives of Russian art school of the XX century, Alexander Tikhomirov (1916 – 1995). The exhibition includes over one hundred paintings and drawings, documents and photographs from the archive of the artist, as well as two biographical film.
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 10.12.2015 till 13.03.2016 year.
The life and art of Alexander Tikhomirov entirely those of the Soviet era. In the 1970-ies, Alexander Tikhomirov has became one of the leaders of the numerous army of the Soviet artists, which is government created, and then replicated reference samples of mass propaganda. Like as many other representatives of the artistic intelligentsia of that time, he was leading a double life, paying a significant portion of their talent creative experimentation in the privacy of the Studio, far from the dictates and ideological order.
The historical context of the epoch is determined not only the life of Alexander Tikhomirov, but the fate of his works. The official party of professional activity of the artist over several decades was limited to work in the Mill design and decoration of the Moscow branch of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. The rest of the time Tikhomirov, working in his workshop, immersed in a world of pure painting, full of incredible phantasmagoria and symbols. This dualism characterizes many masters of the Soviet period, however, case Design is different in that it with one hand out of art groups of unofficial Soviet art (although in some periods of creativity was very close to him), and his works are consistently imbibed a taste for samples of European modernism's most radical clerics. He was inspired by the paintings of Western artists of the XX century – Matisse and Picasso, and at the same time, the art of the late Renaissance.
The dialogue between the two sides of the creative artist's life formed the basis of the exhibition. The first side is represented by sketches for the famous "Leniniana", archival documents and photographs; second, large-scale paintings "from the workshop" Tikhomirova. The viewer can see the artist's totalitarian time in the context of forced and painful compromise between the official language of state propaganda and intensive creative searches of a true artist-experimenter.
The exhibition catalog is planned to release in Russian and English languages.
About the artist: Alexander Dmitrievich Tikhomirov was born on the 1-st of January 1916 in Baku. Since 1931 he studied at the rabfak and worked in Baku painting Studio of advertisement. In 1934 he has enrolled at the 2-nd course of the art Department of Baku art College.
In 1938 Tikhomirov has joined the Union of artists of Azerbaijan. In 1944 he entered the Moscow state art Institute (since 1948 MGHI named after V. I. Surikov) Alexander Osmerkin, where in 1948 he year was expelled for alleged "formalist tendencies". In 1948 he was enrolled in art-industrial workshops of the Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Since 1951 he began his work in Mill design and decoration MOHF of the RSFSR, which has been lasted 27 years.
In 1975 Alexander Tikhomirov was awarded a gold medal at the visual propaganda exhibition VDNH. In the same year he has got his own workshop, after which he retired, finally, focusing on the free work.
30-th of March, 1995 Alexander Tikhomirov was died in Moscow.
Currently, his works are in State Russian Museum, Moscow Museum of modern art, the Orel Museum of fine arts and other museums of Russia, Azerbaijan, Italy, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.
The curator is Elena Kamenskaya
The architect of display is Alexey Podkidyshev
