Igor Berezovsky
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Igor Borisovitch Berezovsky (September 8, 1942 – February 2, 2007), was a Russian painter
, printmaker, and graphic designer
.
Russian Page: Игорь Борисович Березовский
, during evacuation. He was the third child out of six. Since early childhood he liked to draw and make photos. He had always wanted to study—in an art school, an art institute. However, he hadn’t managed to get a formal education. Since the age of 15 he started to work, spent three years serving in the Russian army in the Far East.
His life as an artist was decided upon, when he joined the All-Union Institute for Technical Esthetics in 1967. Other employees in the Institute included philosophers Georgy Shchedrovitsky and Oleg Genisaretsky, design and architecture scholar Alexandr Yermolaev, art scholar Vladimir Paperny, saxophone player Alexei Kozlov. Elena Vsevolodovna Chernevich, and outstanding graphic design scholar and historian, played an important role in Igor Berezovsky's life and art.
Designer scene at the end of sixties and the beginning of seventies was fueled with a passionate interest towards Western pop
and conceptual art
. Berezovsky majored in graphic design
. He not only received outstanding designer education, but also acquired a clear understanding of modern art
.
1973 is the year, when he began free artistic work. His early works already demonstrate the artistic principles, which are to become his main features. A documentary-like, expressive picture. Free, expressive color. A lot of experimentation, much randomness, mistakes.
Here is the paradox: everything starts with a photo—this is important, but only the photos made by the author "from within"—the transformation of the photo yields a creative result. The artist's individual manner fully matures in his still life pictures: early, simple and frankly daring. (1978–1979).
In 1976 Berezovsky leaves his job at the Institute and becomes a freelance artist. In 1979 he becomes a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR. In the next year he enjoys his first personal exhibition and the Graphic Arts Complex.
He earns his living by designing exhibitions (graphics, posters, catalogues), working together with such exhibition design gurus as M. Konik, E. Bogdanov, S. Chermensky. Some of his major works are: design of the national exhibition "Artists for the People", CHA, 1982; "Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov", Mayakovsky Museum, 1985; modern Soviet art exhibition "New Reality", Ravenna
, 1989; exhibition "An Artist and Traditional Art", CHA, 1990.
All his life Berezovsky has been working with outer forms, and only with them. His artistic thinking avoids literature, not inclined towards symbolism, doesn’t employ implications and underlying messages. He has always aimed to articulate modern vision. He was interested in the texture of TV images ("TV Parallels", 1974–77); reproduced photos from magazines and, using large dot patterns, almost eliminated them ("Reproacts", 1981); employed original textures using "stuff" at hand; paraphrased Folon
and Dibbets, Warhol and Dürer
. He used quotation techniques long before the emergence of talks about postmodernism in this country.
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, printmaker, and graphic designer
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
.
Russian Page: Игорь Борисович Березовский
Biography
Igor Borisovich Berezovsky was born on 8 September 1942 in OmskOmsk
-History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes...
, during evacuation. He was the third child out of six. Since early childhood he liked to draw and make photos. He had always wanted to study—in an art school, an art institute. However, he hadn’t managed to get a formal education. Since the age of 15 he started to work, spent three years serving in the Russian army in the Far East.
His life as an artist was decided upon, when he joined the All-Union Institute for Technical Esthetics in 1967. Other employees in the Institute included philosophers Georgy Shchedrovitsky and Oleg Genisaretsky, design and architecture scholar Alexandr Yermolaev, art scholar Vladimir Paperny, saxophone player Alexei Kozlov. Elena Vsevolodovna Chernevich, and outstanding graphic design scholar and historian, played an important role in Igor Berezovsky's life and art.
Designer scene at the end of sixties and the beginning of seventies was fueled with a passionate interest towards Western pop
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
and conceptual art
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
. Berezovsky majored in graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
. He not only received outstanding designer education, but also acquired a clear understanding of modern art
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...
.
1973 is the year, when he began free artistic work. His early works already demonstrate the artistic principles, which are to become his main features. A documentary-like, expressive picture. Free, expressive color. A lot of experimentation, much randomness, mistakes.
Here is the paradox: everything starts with a photo—this is important, but only the photos made by the author "from within"—the transformation of the photo yields a creative result. The artist's individual manner fully matures in his still life pictures: early, simple and frankly daring. (1978–1979).
In 1976 Berezovsky leaves his job at the Institute and becomes a freelance artist. In 1979 he becomes a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR. In the next year he enjoys his first personal exhibition and the Graphic Arts Complex.
He earns his living by designing exhibitions (graphics, posters, catalogues), working together with such exhibition design gurus as M. Konik, E. Bogdanov, S. Chermensky. Some of his major works are: design of the national exhibition "Artists for the People", CHA, 1982; "Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov", Mayakovsky Museum, 1985; modern Soviet art exhibition "New Reality", Ravenna
Ravenna
Ravenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and the second largest comune in Italy by land area, although, at , it is little more than half the size of the largest comune, Rome...
, 1989; exhibition "An Artist and Traditional Art", CHA, 1990.
All his life Berezovsky has been working with outer forms, and only with them. His artistic thinking avoids literature, not inclined towards symbolism, doesn’t employ implications and underlying messages. He has always aimed to articulate modern vision. He was interested in the texture of TV images ("TV Parallels", 1974–77); reproduced photos from magazines and, using large dot patterns, almost eliminated them ("Reproacts", 1981); employed original textures using "stuff" at hand; paraphrased Folon
Folon
Folon is the fourth studio album from Malian artist Salif Keita. It was released in 1995 by Mango and produced by Wally Badarou, except for tracks 5, 7 and 9 by Jean-Philippe Rykiel.-Track listing:*All Songs Written By Salif Keita....
and Dibbets, Warhol and Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...
. He used quotation techniques long before the emergence of talks about postmodernism in this country.
Personal exhibits
- 1980 Graphic Arts Complex, Moscow, Russia
- 1993 Museum of Cinema, Moscow, Russia
- 2000 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
- 2005 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Museums and private collections
- State Tretyakov Gallery, Москва
- Государственный Русский музей, Санкт-Петербург
- "Rosizo", Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
- Museum of Cinema, Москва
- Posters Museum, WarsawWarsawWarsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
- Stedelijk MuseumStedelijk MuseumFounded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for classic modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has been housed on the Paulus Potterstraat, next to Museum Square Museumplein and to the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam Zuid...
, AmsterdamAmsterdamAmsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population... - Private collections in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, et al..
External links
- Design Portal, 2007 - Master
- Artistic Journal, 2008 - Very Lonely Artist
- Vedomsti, 2010 - Separate Human
- TV Kultura, 2007 - Provoke unexpected discoveries. Know, what you create
- TV Kultura, 2010 - Another Berezovsky
- Auto Consulting, 2005 - Помидору помидорово
- Tretiakov Gallery, 2006 - Igor Berezovsky - discovery
- TV Kultura, 08.09.10 Day in History. 8 September 2010 года
