Andrei Krasulin

Influences

Andrei Krasulin demonstrates an indifference to the mimetic aspect of plastic art and he instead peers in the heart of things to show rhythm and the breath of nature in his works.

His large bas-reliefs extract from the walls of memory, figures, objects and architectural fragments, columns, and details of landscape with which he models his vision. For the artist a wall is "akin to a sheet of paper" in that both serve to model infinite space, which is an inexhaustible source of inspiration."

Apprehending the essence of being, faith in the creator and his creations is central to Krasulin's body of work. Aptly stated, art is not a profession, it is the way you live your life."

Resume

• 1934 > Born in Moscow
• 1949 > Enters an art school situated opposite State Tretyakov Gallery, sculpture class
• 1953-60 > Studies at the Department of Monumental and Decorative Sculpture at the Moscow Stroganov Academy
• 1960 >Tries to work as the state employee at the Office of Design of the Future Palace of Soviets and as artist-in-chief at the Moscow Polytechnic Museum
• From 1960 > Rents a studio at Nizhnyaja Maslovka and works on different projects (children’s playground for a resort hotel in Gelendzhik, entry hall and ticket office for the new theatre in Tula, palace of marriages in Crimea etc.)
• Since 1968 > Member of MOSKh, Moscow Union of Artists
• 1978-80 > Produces a large work for the Moscow Physicians Re-Training Institute
• 80’s >Produces series of architectural reliefs
• Second place in the competition for a monument to V. Vysotsky
• Designs a wooden wall for the Philarmonic Hall in Ryazan
• Begins to work in colour, fascination by the kitchen stool
• Designs a monument for Soviet prisoners of war who dies and were buried at the concentration camp cemetery in Ebensee, Austria
• 1991> New studio in Sokolniki district, Moscow
• New direction: painting and graphic, still continues designing colour sculptures
• 1997 > Designs an installation of the steel cross – a monument in the town of Dmitrov to the prisoners who perished during the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal
• 2001 > A monument for the grave of Nikolay Andronov at the Vvedenskoe Cemetry in Moscow
• 2002 > Creation of the wooden bas-relief at the Moscow International Music Center
• 2003 > Sculptural design for the facade of the new Pyotr Fomenko Theatre
• Golden Mean prize of the Moscow Architects Union
• 2006 > Master Award, Centre for contemporary Art “M’ars”, Moscow
• 2009 > Culture Prize from the government of Russian Federation
• “Khrustalny Dedal” – highest architecture prize of Russia

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2010 > Paintings. Graphics. Objects, Pop/Off/Art Gallery, Moscow
• 2008 > Simple Form, Pop/Off/Art Gallery, Moscow
• Bronze about Mandelstam, MUAR, State Museum for Architecture, Moscow
• 2007 > Lipetsk regional Art Gallery, Lipetsk, Russia
• 2006-07 > Karenina Gallery, Moscow
• 2005 > Lifestyle, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Elena Vrublevkaya Gallery, Moscow
• 2000 > Etchings on Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Autographs, Manege Gallery, Moscow
• 1999 >Travel Notes, Chekhov House, Manege Gallery, Moscow
• 1998 > Reliefs on Sand, Neuentempel Galerie, Berlin
• 1997 > Sculpture. Painting. Graphics, “Vmeste” Gallery, Moscow
• 1996 > Boards, “Manege” Gallery, Moscow
• Art Manege, Moscow
• 1995 > From the Jubilees Series, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Lietuvos Aido Gallery, Vilnius

Selected group exhibitions and participation in art fairs

• 2010 > Around Relief, State Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow
• Sky, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Second Baltic Biennale, Saint Petersburg
• 2009 > Russian Landscape – Realistic to Abstract, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich
• Fifty-Fifty, Pop/Off/Art Gallery, Moscow
• 2008 > Mood of the Soul, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich
• Exhibition of projects for the Mandelstam Monument, Museum Centre of RGGU (Russian State Humanities University), Moscow
• Laureates of the Master Award, ERA Foundation, Moscow
• 2007 > Fifty-Fifty, from the collections of M. Alshibaya and M. Kurtser, State Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow
• Art Moscow, Karenina Gallery, Moscow
• Siberian Refrain, 7th International Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Art Centre, Siberia, Russia
• 2005-06 > Revision of Material, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 2005 > Warsaw – Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 2004 > Moscow – Warsaw, National Art Gallery, Warsaw
• 2003 > Moscow Abstraction. Second Half of the 20th Century, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• The “Senezh” Studio. 55 Etchings, State Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow
• Artist of the Second Half of the 20th Century. From A to Z. From the collection of M. and G. Krasilini, Gallery „New Ermitage“, Moscow
• 2001-2002 > Abstract Art in Russia: The 20th Century, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2001 > Russian wooden sculpture. 20th Century, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2000 > Abstraction in Russia, “Kovcheg” Gallery, Moscow
• 1998 > The End of the Landscape, “Vmeste” Gallery, Moscow
• 1997 > Reverse Perspective, Rzhev, Russia
• Pereslavl Dialogues, “Segodnja” Gallery, Moscow
• Art Manege, Moscow
• State Prize 1997, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 1996 > Museum Space of the Kuznetsky Most, House of Artist, Moscow
• Art Manege, Moscow
• 1995 > La Terra Ritrovata, Villa Ormond, San Remo
• 1994 > Artists of the 60’s in the 90’s, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 1993 > In Memory of V. Vysotsky, “Art Modern” Gallery, Moscow
• 1992 > Artists of the 60’s in the 90’s, “Obraz” Gallery, Moscow
• 1991 > Paris-Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• In Memory of K. Malevich, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 1990 > Figuration Critique, Paris
• Sculptura sovietica contemporaneo, San Giovanni al Natisone

• “After few exhibitions during the Soviet Regime his normal life as an exhibiting artist begins”

• 1989 > Biennale Male Plastike, Ljubljana
• 1979 > Exhibition of the Thirteen, House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1962 > Youth Exhibition, MOSKh, Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow

Collections (Museum and private collections)

• State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Ludwig-Forum, Aachen, Germany
• Arkhangelsk Art Museum, Arkhangelsk
• Bryansk Regional Art Museum, Bryansk
• Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk
• Smolensk State Museum-Reserve, Smolensk
• Tula Museum of Fine Arts, Tula
• Vologda Regional Picture Gallery, Vologda
• State Art Museum, Yaroslavl
• Lipetsk Regional Art Gallery, Lipetsk, Russia
• Novy Ierusalim Art Museum, Novy Ierusalim
• Collection of „Manege“ Gallery, Moscow
• Collection Pop/Off/Art Gallery, Moscow
• Collection of E. Bagdasaryan, Prague
• Collection of N. Brykina, Zurich / Moscow
• Collection of E. Nutovich, Moscow
• Collection of M. Alshibaya, Moscow
• Collection of M. and G. Krasilini, Moscow
• Collection of A. Mironov, Moscow
• Collection of A. Zaripov, Moscow
• Private collections in Russia and abroad