SUPREMATISM FROM THE "EUROSHOP"
Suprematism from the "Euroshop" is a series of 12 paintings created for an exhibition in Germany. The exhibition budget was limited, so artists decided to save money on materials for the works and bought them from Euroshop. The kitchen oilcloths bought there became the basis for geometric abstraction, similar to the paintings of Suprematists and Constructivists.

Commenting on the series, Vladimir Seleznev noted that "whatever you don’t put Russian avant-garde on, everything becomes art", and "the cost price of oilcloths has increased a thousand times".

But in "Suprematism from Euroshop" the artist uses the techniques of collage, a technique and type of compositional thinking that became established in modernist art around 1912. A certain real object, an oilcloth, becomes a part of a pictorial work. And its provenance from a thrift store is key to the series.

As the avant-garde grows in value, many modern artists find themselves as Sunday masters, economizing on paint and canvas. But if you turn to imitating the language of the avant-garde, you can create paintings that are in demand with the viewer, because for the viewer, the value and price of the avant-garde is more obvious than the value and price of contemporary art.
2016, Oilcloth, acrylic


Marina Sokolovskaya

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