Valery Yurlov

Influences

Yurlov began working as a freelance artist in the 1950s. He designed his unique palette of geometric forms (triangular, circular and drop) and he analysed the composition of his painting as a symbol.

By the middle of the 1960s Yurlov had developed his ideas for "Trinity" primarily from his theories of "Shaping Couples" and the resulting discoveries. In the first case there were the differences and in the second the harmony with its definite opposition emphasized.

From the end of the 60's until the beginning of the 70's Yurlov worked intensively on sketches for sculpture made from cables, conductors, electric switches etc., which have to do with the theme of communication. Some of the ideas from these sculptures may be realised later.

In the 1980's he worked with the concept "New Phonetics of Colour", which he further developed and deepened during his time in New York. His creative range is a continuing refinement and further development of his "Pair Shapes" theory.

Resume

• 1931 > Valery Yurlov was born in Almaty, he received his basic education at the Academy of Arts in Almaty and continued his education with Prof. Cherkassky
• 1955 > Graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (his teachers are Pavel Sakharov, Ivan Chekmazov, Piotr  Mituritch, Andrey Gontcharov and Vladimir Favorsky)
• 1954-80 > Works for different editions as an illustrator
• From 1956 > Independent and free artist; analyses the genesis of the “image-sign“ and their colour
• 1960 > Develops his method of the “Pair of Forms“
• 1961 > Works at the construction of the sign „Trinity“
• 1965-70 > Participation in different ethnographic expeditions
• 1979-80 > Development of his own method of painting (communications, clothes and me, time etc.); studies scripts of Nicolaus von Kues and Russian-Orthodox Theology, close contact with Victor Shklovsky
• 1984-89 > Works at the construction of the “Scale“; discovery of the „New Phonetics of colour“
• 1994-02 > Lives and works in New York
• Since 2002 > Lives and works in Moscow

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2010 > Diary of an Artist, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich/Moscow
• 2009 > Andrey Erofeev Gallery, Moscow
• 2008 > Valery Yurlov. Works on Paper, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich
• 2006-08 > Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow
• 2006-07 > Valery Yurlov Retrospective, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich
• 2005 > Masters Gallery, Moscow
• 2002 > „U Jara“ Gallery, Verhnjaja Maslovka 18, Moscow (in line with the exhibition Abstraction in Russia in the State Tretyakov Gallery)
• 1999 > Line, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
• 1998 > Valery Yurlov, the Art and the Old Photography, Jersey City, USA
  Zalman Art Gallery, New York (curator Marina Bessonova)
• 1997 > I See Myself, Russian-American Culture Forum, New York
• 1996 > Valery Yurlov: Abstractions, Tabakman Museum, Hudson, USA (curator Marina Bessonova)
  Valery Yurlov and his Art, Jewish Centre, New York
• 1995 > Works on Paper, Berman Gallery, New York
  I See Myself, Russia House Connecticut, USA
• 1994 > Valery Yurlov. Works 1955-1964, Berman Gallery, New York
• 1993 > Gallery „Moscow Collection“, Moscow
  I See Myself, Centre for Art Petrovka, Moscow
• 1992 > Retrospective Valery Yurlov: 1955-1991, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions and participation in art fairs

• 2010-11 > The Art of Healing and Collecting Art, from the Collections of M. Alshibaya, M. Kurtser and D. Ioseliani, Russian Academy of Art, Moscow
• 2009 > International Art Fair „Kunst09 Zurich“, Zurich
• 2008-09 > Nonconformists. 2nd Russian Avant-Garde 1955-1988, Bar-Gera Collection, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
• 2008 > Mood of the Soul, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich
• 2007 > International Art Fair „Kunst07 Zurich“, Zurich
• 2006 > International Art Fair „Kunst06 Zurich“, Zurich
• 2005 > Russian Nonconformists, from the Bar-Gera Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland
  Metaphysics, from the M. Alshibaya Collection, Gallery A-3, Moscow
• 2003 > Moscow Abstraction, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  Persecuted Art and Artists under Totalitarian Regimes in Europe during the 20th Century, Bar-Gera Collection, Art Museum Ashdod, Israel
• 2001-02 > Abstraction in Russia – 20th Century, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2001 > Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Moscow Museum for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Museum of Art, Samara, Russia
• 2000-01 > Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany
• 2000 > L’arte vietata in U.R.S.S. 1955-1988, from the Bar Gera Collection, Palazzo Forti Verona, Verona, Italy
• 1997 > Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop, Leverkusen, Germany
  Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Bayer Erholungshaus (Arts and Culture), Leverkusen, Germany
  Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany
• 1996-97 > Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Städel Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
• 1996 > Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, Städel Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  Exhibition from the Bar-Gera Collection, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 1995 > From Gulag to Glasnost, Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ, USA
• 1991 > The Other Art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  In Memory of K. Malevich, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 1989 > National Museum Nashville, USA

Museum and private collections

• State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum / Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, NJ, USA
• ART4.RU, Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
• NCCA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• Bar-Gera Collection, Switzerland
• Collection N. und T. Kolodzej, USA
• Collection Nadja Brykina, Zürich / Moskau
• Collection M. Alhibaya, Moscow
• Collection M. Kurtser, Moscow
• Private collections in Russia and abroad