{"id":16289,"date":"2019-08-16T06:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T06:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/?page_id=16289"},"modified":"2020-06-14T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T23:11:40","slug":"everybody-drozdov","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/exh\/everybody-drozdov\/","title":{"rendered":"“All Here!”, Painting Exhibition by Ilya Drozdov"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hours:<\/strong>\u00a026.08\u201312.09.2019,\u00a0Mon\u2013Sun, 10:00\u201320:00<\/p>\n

Opening reception:<\/strong>\u00a028\u00a0August 2019, Wednesday, at 19:00<\/p>\n

Venue:<\/strong> Moscow, Artplay, Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya 10, bldg. 9, entrance 3A (entrance to VBShD), 2nd floor, \u201cLaboratory\u201d hall<\/p>\n

Admission is free.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All works are available for purchase.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The exhibition of artist Ilya Drozdov\u00a0\u201cEveryone Is Here!\u201d brings together works from several series. The leitmotif of the show is Paradise \u2014 an ideal real and unreal world of Good that is impossible without the world of Evil. The artist invites us to imagine on this theme and to picture that we are already HERE \u2014 each of us in our own ideal world.<\/p>\n

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It was Paradise that the first explorers of painting sought. Later, Jan van Huysum, Jan van Dael, Jan van Os, and Jan van Brussel tried to speak of it, depicting the long, hard journey of a little ant home to its anthill along peony petals and a bumblebee\u2019s voyage along a tulip stem, building an ideal composition of fruit and flowers, light and shadow as a set in a vast theatre, describing a lush theatrical, compositional drama. The viewer\u2019s task is to look closely at the ant on the leaf and see the Birth of Adam.<\/p>\n

But everyone has their own Paradise, and so as an epigraph to his painting exhibition Ilya Drozdov chose a line by Bulat Okudzhava: \u201cEach hears how he breathes; as he breathes, so he writes, with no wish to please...\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Ilya Drozdov <\/strong><\/p>\n

Artist and member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Born in Moscow. He lived and worked in Jerusalem for several years. For more than 15 years, he worked as an artist and designer for renowned magazines. He has participated in numerous exhibitions across Russia.<\/p>\n

Ilya Drozdov\u2019s paintings are distinguished by their impeccably constructed compositions, the lightness and refinement of his brushwork, and their intensely heightened, almost exaggerated colour. His works are held in private collections in Russia, Israel, and Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhether it is a landscape or a still life, a genre scene or a portrait, the work must resound with music, with the rustling of leaves and the blowing of the wind. Without this, there is no art.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Artist\u2019s Manifesto<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFive centuries of experience, from the pioneers to our contemporaries, offer boundless scope for our imagination; the titans are gone, but they left the door open\u2014come in, take what you need, make use of it. But take with care, with talent, with attention; otherwise, what is the point of it all if it is done carelessly and without talent?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0We copy, and then copy again and again, but after tentative scales and the search for colour and sound, the time comes to play so loudly that everyone can hear, to cry out at the top of one\u2019s voice. <\/em><\/p>\n

Here I am!<\/em><\/p>\n

To create a composition so audacious that the Dutch masters would gasp; to build upon their experience, to move away from lavish bouquets, and to make each petal a metre by a metre, crying out: \u201cHere I am!\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Did it work? Hardly! Everything vanishes. Another attempt is needed to catch up with light and shadow. And so, another canvas is needed.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c...Consider how the flowers of the field grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This is my quest and my choice!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hours:\u00a026.08\u201312.09.2019,\u00a0Mon\u2013Sun, 10:00\u201320:00 Opening reception:\u00a028\u00a0August 2019, Wednesday, at 19:00 Venue: Moscow, Artplay, Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya 10, bldg. 9, entrance 3A (entrance to VBShD), 2nd floor, \u201cLaboratory\u201d hall Admission is free. All works are available for purchase. The exhibition of artist Ilya Drozdov\u00a0\u201cEveryone Is Here!\u201d brings together works from several series. The leitmotif of the show is Paradise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5557,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16289\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kvartiras.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}