GTSII will show the work of artists of the circle of Mikhail Grobman

Today, January 29, in the small hall of the State Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow on the occasion of the presentation of the book “Textilers. The guest notebooks of Mikhail Grobman 1964–1971 ”opens a four -day exhibition of artists, which are discussed in the book.

The exhibition will present the works of Mikhail Grobman, Erica Bulatov, Francisco Infande, Ilya Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Mikhail Roginsky, Boris Turkish, Eduard Steinberg and Vladimir Yakovlev.

The basis of the “notebooks”, published in the Barberis Publishing House in 2013, is 18 facsimally published school notebooks with autographs of friends of the circle of an outstanding figure of the second Russian avant -garde Mikhail Grobman - artists, poets, writers, collectors, representatives of informal art of 1964-1971.

The author records in detail the unique routine of the spaces in which, according to the publisher of the book of Irina Tarkhanova, “artists, poets and writers lived and worked, whose lives, rules and laws did not coincide with the official ones. They risked many: citizenship, income, sometimes life. In return, they allowed themselves to be a luxury to write any paintings and texts, to love and accept those who are sweet and roads, to arrange apartmentmen, to create and discuss the last samizdat, to listen and sing forbidden songs, to just see, to argue about everything for a simple meal, sometimes newspapers. ”

“Through the open doors of these houses, those whose names later became cult: Kabakov, Roginsky, Turkish, Yakovlev, Weisberg. Such a landmark house was the apartment of Irina Vrubel-Golubkina and Mikhail Grobman in textiles. We can say that the whole "encyclopedia" of informal art has been there, - writes Irina Tarkhanova.