Vladimir E. Brainin

1951 born in Moscow
1968 he graduated from children's art school Krasnopresnensky district of Moscow
1968-70 worked as a painter-decorator in Theater. Vl.Mayakovskogo
. 1968-73 studied painting in the studio EA Dodonova
. 1971-76 studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (art-graphic faculty)
. since 1976 member of the Association of young artists and art Mossich RSFSR
. since 1983 member of the USSR Union of Artists
. Collections where works
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. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
. Bank "Muscovy", Moscow
. Bank Capital ", Moscow
. Bank Inkombank, Moscow
. Rato-Bank, Moscow
. Gallery M'ARS, Moscow
. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
. Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg
. Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad
. Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil
. Nicholas Art Museum, Nikolaev
. Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts, Omsk
. Tula Museum of Fine Arts, Tula
. Kurgan Regional Art Museum, Barrow
. Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl
. Art Museum im.Shovkunenko Kherson, Kherson
. Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
. Dresden art gallery, Dresden, Germany
. Office for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
. Mayor's Ermopolisa, Greece
. V. Fadeev, S. Jafarova, L. Baranov, S. Sherstyuk, D. Kantorov, D. Biesty, Moscow
. A. Kostaki, Athens, Greece
. Abona, Toronto, Canada
. Shnapke, Germany
. Kronek, Tel-Aviv, Israel
. Byurryus, Paris, France
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. Participation in exhibitions and auctions
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. SOLO EXHIBITIONS

. 1978 One-day exhibition
. Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1984 together with George Kichigin. Exhibition Hall of Moscow Artists Union Street. ZHOLTOVSKOGO, Moscow
1988, together with Leonid Baranov. Home sculptor, Moscow
1991 Exhibition Hall of Artists Union of the USSR, Tverskaya 25, Moscow White Hall of the Moscow Soviet, Moscow
The program 1992 "Duets" (with V. Koshlyakov). Dominus ". MARCHI Moscow
1995 Exhibition - Presentation of the book "Vladimir Brainin - Vladimir Brainin". Gallery of the Union ", Moscow
. Central House of Artists, Moscow
. Gallery of the Union ", Moscow
. 1996 Gallery Neskuchny Garden, Moscow
. 1997 Gallery of the Foundation "Russian Cultural Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland
. GROUP EXHIBITIONS

. 1977-86 Young Artists Union Exhibition, Moscow
. 1980 All-Union Youth Exhibition
. Exhibition Hall of the Artists' Union, Tashkent
1982 "Paintings and drawings by young Soviet artists". Palace of Arts, Sofia
"Youth of the country". Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1983 "Art Bazel". Basel, Switzerland
"Contemporary Soviet art from the collection of Peter Ludwig". Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Central House of Artists, Moscow
1984 "My contemporaries: the USSR, Czechoslovakia". Central House of Artists, Moscow
1985 International Trade Fair. Poznan, Poland
1986 XVII Exhibition of Young Artists. Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1987 XVIII Exhibition of Young Artists. Manege, Moscow
Biennale of Baltic Countries. Kunsthalle, Rostock, Germany
"Private view". 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1988 'Moscow Contemporary Art. Kostaki Gallery, Athens, Greece
Five Soviet painters: A. Sundukov, SW. Weiss, S. Kirke, D. Kichigin, V. Brainin ". Gamburgerhof, Hamburg, Germany
1990 "Six peintres sovietiques d'ajourd'hui". Foundation Mona Bismarck, Paris, France
"Contemporary Russian Art". Moscow Gallery, Toronto, Canada
ART MIF 1. Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Young artists and the modern world". Beijing-Shanghai, China
"Russian Art: Treasures and Traditions. National Gallery, Washington, USA
1991 "ART MIF 2". "Names". Manege, Moscow
1992 "New figurative art from Moscow:
V. Brainin, A. Kolkutin, D. Crimea ". Artist House, Jerusalem, Israel
Exhibition in honor of Alfred Schnittke. Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow
"Tre Stati d'Anima". Galeria Spazio Tempo, Florence, Italy
1993 "Sleep reveals the nature of things". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
"Contemporary Art from the Collection of Bank Moskovia. State Museum of Russian Art, Kiev;
State Art Gallery, Lvov;
Art Museum, Odessa; Art Museum, Sochi
"Landscape and Still Life". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Pleiades". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"ART MIF 3". Manege, Moscow
"Duets". MARCHI Moscow
1994 "Contemporary Art from the collection of Inkombank". Regional Museum of Art, Ulyanovsk;
. Art Museum, Samara;
. Gallery, Magnitogorsk;
. Exhibition Hall of Artists Union, Chelyabinsk;
. Art Museum, Ekaterinburg;
. Art Museum, Omsk
. 1995 "charity auction to benefit the Burn Center at Children's Hospital, N9
. Contemporary Russian paintings and drawings ". Sotheby's, ART MIF. Hotel Metropol, Moscow
"La terra ritrovata". Villa Ormond, Sanremo, Italy "Apocalypse". Russia State Humanities University, Moscow
1995 "Contemporary Art from the collection of Inkombank". Regional Museum of Art, Ulyanovsk; Art Museum, Samara; Art Gallery, Magnitogorsk; Exhibition Hall of Artists Union, Chelyabinsk; Art Museum, Ekaterinburg; Art Museum, Omsk
. 1996 International art fair ART-MOSCOW, Gallery Neskuchniy Garden "
. Central House of Artists, Moscow
Charity auction in favor of "Operation Smile", Sotheby's. Moscow
'Silk Art. Kaluga Art Museum, Ryazan Regional Art Museum, Corcoran Museum, Washington, USA
"Silk from Russia". Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York. United States
. History of Historicism "(with Aidan, . O. Bulgakova, . I. Golicina, . K. Danelia, . E. Kornilova, . I. Korsakova, . V. Koshlyakov, . Kulik, . I. Makarevich, . S. Maksyutina, . A. Medvedev, . B. Mikhailov, . Novikova, . B. Orloff, . A. Sitnikov, . A. Slepyshevym, . Smirnov, . Tsereteli, . E. Yashin),
. AOSIS, Moscow
. Autobiographical notes
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. In Dodonova, . Utrillo and Modigliani - even before my parents were raised: first, . there was some kind of "cultural training" with the campaigns for exhibitions and theaters, . continuous tours during the summer travel, . secondly, . I could not do nothing, . when seen, . that his father was working from morning till night.,
. Special educational awareness of time, it seemed not to include me in the realities of socio-political life
. I agonized for a long time: as I, a young artist with a decadent desires, all in poetry, knew only one thing: Stalin was bad, and Lenin - a good. And as I'm sixteen years old standing near the fence and shook his head, listening to the conversations neighbors, when everyone said that they say, zazhralis these Czechs, and we've entered the correct place tanks. Then, at eighteen, I could not understand why I could not understand.
What more strongly affected me, so it is - infinite love failures. I tried them - I wanted to be unhappy. Because a decadent walks with pink cheeks, well-fed and contented. I meticulously destroyed many of their romantic luck. I could think of suicide vest ladies uncharacteristic qualities ... Then I suddenly switched and represented an incredibly courageous character - and, apparently, badly treated by the young ladies who did not like. And that's all I once taught.
Then I came to the conclusion that the arts and communicate with the ladies - this is the same. (Now I think I already do not think so).
Paintings-same - this seems to be ideal love. The purely sensual and erotic stage is connected with that period of maturation in the art, when you are struggling with the material. In this state, it (art) or they (pictures) allow themselves to love you because you're doing them better.
But you learned to do things with his hands, came up with - and made. This surface sensitivity bored, and failure can happen. There is nothing more than this simple skill. Or born a new ideal situation - the picture begins to support you. On such cases, said that work to purify and elevate. No it does not "work", it is love.
Erotic condition, which can be felt in the paintings - it probably is the essence of life, its pulse, its movement. Even if the picture is about death, how else to understand that something is flowing, vibrate and promises. That is, the difference between the paintings and life is that in painting, I have much more power - I do what I want.
Long-term observation, vzhivanie layer upon layer animates the visible and shows the unknown.
Criticism

Brainin - a characteristic figure of the artistic life of Moscow, since the mid 70-ies. Simultaneously, he is a unique product stagnant period of Russia's history. And so, the artist is always - he is "black" and "white", and the bad and good, and the naive and the sophisticated ...
. This is the same art Brainina - regardless of the angle of view, the mood of the opponent, time of year, the political environment - it is always "this" and "other" simultaneously
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Pictures Brainina have a strange feature - space of the image carries a physically tangible content of another space. Boulevard may divert the viewer a kilometer depth from the surface of the canvas, a wall with a bas-relief and the door will not allow the viewer more than a step in the paint layer ... And at the same time: Boulevard overturned and a plan itself (and yet somehow, . plan and cut excavations, . sensible and audible through the dark shadows of trees and lights reflected in puddles), and in the wall can enter, . dissolved in it (the door does not need), . and progress will be long - many decades ago,


. In the 1970's - early 80-ies critics and viewers of art Brainina pointed at me as if the action undertaken by the artist of the experiment: the familiar outlines of the Kremlin or the Pipe area itself a measure of recognition were equal polupridumannym homes and streets - learned the City,
. It appears the definition of "master of Moscow's landscape". But in the square Belosrusskaya medieval knight meets a policeman, caryatids almost alive, and has already acquired a portrait likeness of living people today, bring us the news of her new experience of life through destiny and the wall. The houses are pulled out from the topographic context and have become a symbol of time or a specific historical conflict - deep shadows, crack walls, silent exit cars from the arch, is dated: 1910, 1937, 1953, 1961 ..

. Depth images Brainina - is constantly experienced by the artist to combine assumptions about life, . fate and death in the plot, . in fragment, . which is now in his field of view - a multilayered virtuoso painting, . where layers lessirovok physically continue space, . reflecting and thinking of the artist, . and demonstrative artistry precise hand movements: I - the artist,
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Originally Brainin was recorded in the traditional painters. Also, soon he was identified as an exemplary figure of the artist aesthetes. At the same time within the landscape genre soon became clear his obvious attraction to the classical values - by Guardi and Canaletto to Utrillo. So woven image Brainina - retrospektivista and traditionalist, the artist archaic, museum store. But over time it turned out that it is not engaged Brainin lyrical topography of the city, but expresses its history, the destruction, the tragedy of living and retired people.
. Aesthetically "retrospective" fabric of his paintings began to swirl baroque forms, which became the language of postmodern system nezamykayuschihsya polusyurrealisticheskih reflections
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G. Nikich. Vladimir Brainin. Vladimir Brainin. Ganymed Publishers, Moscow, 1995

Bibliography

V. Meyland "Exhibition in. Brainina and T. Kichigina ", Journal of Soviet Painting", N8, 1986, Moscow;
E. Tar Vladimir Brainin ", Journal of Soviet Painting", N9, 1987, Moscow;
G. Nikich Vladimir Brainin: I was born in 1951, 1991, Moscow.