Hello Makar!
KRASIL MAKAR
May 25 – July 31 2021
May 25 – July 31 2021
Triangle gallery is pleased to present Hello, Makar!, a new exhibition of paintings by Krasil Makar.
Krasil Makar is an alias for a Yekaterinburg-based artist (b.1989) who works with painting, sculpture, and street art. According to biographic legend the artist Krasil Makar was born in 1889 in the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, Sverdlovsk Region.
Hello Makar,
You are inside beauty, inside experience, and whether the past can be part of the present is something that opposes death and oblivion.
One hundred and fifty years ago, villagers in the Urals began hiring skilled painters to paint flowers and bouquets on their houses. The Ural house pictorial art was characterised by two-colour brushstrokes and a picturesque programme - each element of the house had its own floral motif.
When the old peasant way of life was destroyed in the 20th century, house murals became a museum tradition. Something rarely seen in the home and is associated with modernity.
But before that, avant-garde artists were inspired by peasant art - and created a language of new painting by embracing the forms, colours and techniques of traditional craftsmanship. However, avant-garde painting today is as much a legacy as house murals.
The paintings in the exhibition are signed "Painted by Makar" and were created in 2021. They can be seen as beautiful landscapes of imaginary, dreamlike places, with berries scattered across the sky like stars and grasses bending like bridges over streams and seas. These landscapes are kind to you as a humble observer of the abundance and beauty of natural forms. At the same time, these paintings may seem like the spaces from a computer game or remind you of modernist paintings from a century ago.
Painted today, they show the connections between peasant craftsmanship, modernist painting, contemporary visual culture and the human desire, whether artist or observer, to discover the roots and possibilities of modernity in history.
We live our own lives in our current present, constantly dealing with loss. So many things are left behind, disappear, are discarded and forgotten. Makar, remembering the painting techniques from a bygone world, shows that that language can be the language of the modern home and modern beauty. The new fruit of a firmly rooted tree. A voice in which those living today discover their connection to history.
Marina Sokolovskaya
Krasil Makar is an alias for a Yekaterinburg-based artist (b.1989) who works with painting, sculpture, and street art. According to biographic legend the artist Krasil Makar was born in 1889 in the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, Sverdlovsk Region.
Hello Makar,
You are inside beauty, inside experience, and whether the past can be part of the present is something that opposes death and oblivion.
One hundred and fifty years ago, villagers in the Urals began hiring skilled painters to paint flowers and bouquets on their houses. The Ural house pictorial art was characterised by two-colour brushstrokes and a picturesque programme - each element of the house had its own floral motif.
When the old peasant way of life was destroyed in the 20th century, house murals became a museum tradition. Something rarely seen in the home and is associated with modernity.
But before that, avant-garde artists were inspired by peasant art - and created a language of new painting by embracing the forms, colours and techniques of traditional craftsmanship. However, avant-garde painting today is as much a legacy as house murals.
The paintings in the exhibition are signed "Painted by Makar" and were created in 2021. They can be seen as beautiful landscapes of imaginary, dreamlike places, with berries scattered across the sky like stars and grasses bending like bridges over streams and seas. These landscapes are kind to you as a humble observer of the abundance and beauty of natural forms. At the same time, these paintings may seem like the spaces from a computer game or remind you of modernist paintings from a century ago.
Painted today, they show the connections between peasant craftsmanship, modernist painting, contemporary visual culture and the human desire, whether artist or observer, to discover the roots and possibilities of modernity in history.
We live our own lives in our current present, constantly dealing with loss. So many things are left behind, disappear, are discarded and forgotten. Makar, remembering the painting techniques from a bygone world, shows that that language can be the language of the modern home and modern beauty. The new fruit of a firmly rooted tree. A voice in which those living today discover their connection to history.
Marina Sokolovskaya