February 5, 2015 at 17.00 in the Peter and Paul Fortress, in the Exhibition Hall "postern and casemate of Gosudarev bastion" opens the exhibition of St. Petersburg artist Aron Zinshtein "The city and the countryside." It presents the works of master, made in the technique of "banner painting."
For visitors the exhibition will be open from 05.02.2015 – 03.03.2015.
Aron Zinshtein was born in 1947 in the city of Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, graduated from the Ural College of Applied Arts (1968) and LVHPU of Mukhina (1977). Since 1988, he is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, since 1994 – a Member of the Academy of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg.
His works are in the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg, State Russian Museum, the Museum of A. Akhmatova, literary-memorial museum of Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Museum of Contemporary Art "Errata", "Manege" and the Russian national library, as well as in Far Eastern Art Museum (Khabarovsk), Yekaterinburg gallery of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts (Nizhny Tagil), Saratov art Gallery, Yaroslavl art Gallery; in private collections in Russia and abroad,
A. Zinshtein works in different kinds of visual art: engaged in painting, drawing, sculpture, painting on porcelain. Is also widely known his book graphics: illustrations to the Czech fairy tales, to the works of William Shakespeare ("Romeo and Juliet"), Fyodor Dostoevsky ("White Nights", "House of the Dead"), B. Sh Okudzhava ("Travel of amateurs ", etc.). To creativity of the artist is characteristic a pronounced expressive manner, His works, regardless of what technology they are made, are always emotional, full of freedom and movement.
A few years ago, the artist tried to use as the basis for his paintings the old banner ads, entering into the composition fragments of printing pictures and texts of advertising posters, At the same time A. Zinshtein retains original, often huge, sizes the advertising stretch marks, banners, posters, and calls invented by him technique – "art banner" or "banner painting."
At the exhibition in Peter and Paul Fortress will be presented "art banners", created by the artist in 2012-2014,
Art critic G. Yu Ershov says the following about banner painting of A. Zinshtein: "Expression, Freedom, bright strokes of colour, flowing mobile state of paint – all that is characteristic of his paintings gift, acquire here monumentality and breadth of their sound. Intimate, lyrical motifs of landscape sketches with views of the park, summer lake, Petersburg's streets and squares, paradoxically are connected with advertising basis of old banners show through wherein font, wherein spot colours or images directly among the cheerful chaos of a sweeping painting. Going from easel canvas of small size, the artist seems quite naturally went to the aesthetics of graffiti – his painting seems applied directly on the city walls, representing a palimpsest. The power and strength of the bright, expressive texture especially manifests itself in the image of human figures, forcing the recall of Georges Rouault, Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon. However, in his creativity manifests itself connection with the St. Petersburg pictorial tradition of unofficial art – from arefevtsev to artists of his circle. "Banner Art" of artist of recent years represents him from an unexpected quarter, as a modern master, who found a new way to represent his art."
