30.1.10

Leonid Tishkov. In Search of the Miraculous

Dates: January 28, 2010 — March 14, 2010 Venue: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Ermolaevsky, 17 Opening: January 27, 2010, at 7 pm
Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents a retrospective show of the Moscow well-known artist Leonid Tishkov an artist, a narrator and a visionary, at the same time ironic and poetic. A total installation, presenting the imaginary worlds of Dabloids, Divers, Stomakis, and other creatures, created by artist within 30 years of his creative work, will take up several floors of the museum. Combining folklore and surrealism, addressing the theme of memory, and using banal subjects, Leonid Tishkov is always true to himself, turning art into a visual theatre. It is essential for the artist to see the world through he eyes of a child, to notice its miraculous manifestations, and, eventually, to turn into a fantasy creature himself.Leonid Tishkov is an integral part of Moscow art scene, a self-sufficient «brand». Few of his contemporaries have retained similar inner creative motivation. Long ago, he stepped over the line of searching for self-identification in art. His strategy lies in the continuous mythmaking, in producing rich and extremely dynamic narrative, in which the diversity of form originates from perpetually generated content diversity.
The display will represent a journey from the Lower World, through the Middle World, to the Upper World. The 4 floors will feature installations-narrations, arranged regardless of the date of execution. The Lower World speaks about Dabloids, Stomakis, Divers, Wooden Logs, People Living in Elephants’ trunks. The Middle-World is represented by biographic works: Knitling, Look at Your House, In My Father’s Field, Mother’s Dress, etc. The Upper-World addresses the sky: Talking to Heaven, Divers from heaven, the Moon, the Star, Solveig, Light is All Around, Ladomir: Objects of Utopia.
The show at Moscow Museum of Modern Art will present new installation «In Search of the Miraculous», dedicated to Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, who went missing in the Atlantic Ocean 30 years ago.

Specially for the exhibition was published a catalog "In Search of the Miraculous" of 430 pages in color


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16.1.10

Leonid Tishkov, Ballade lumineuse at Taiss gallery_Paris


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12.11.09

Private Moon in Linz_4














Photographs by Otto Saxinger, Miklos Boros
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1.11.09

Faith in the Ideal


FAITH IN THE IDEAL

I see an ideal kingdom in a stony and sleepy land. Artists founded that kingdom and inhabited it with their images.
An artist is like a mad gardener who has grown a garden in the desert. Generations of them brought earth in baskets there, sowed flower seeds and then every day went for water so far away that by the time they were back there were but a few drops of water left at the bottom of their buckets - the scorching sun had dried it up along the way. Yet, those few drops were enough to keep the garden alive.
I live there behind a fence, growing images that, like climbing plants, twine round and sustain my reality, restore my lost memory and prevent the decrepit and weak walls of the house of my life from crumbling down.
I thus bolster my understanding that life is not absurd and that my existence there is not a flash of some chance light or a perishable spark. What surrounds me? What surrounded me when I was an embryo? Out of non-existence and on to the edge of a precipice, I am trying to stay on the threshold of reality.
With but a movement of his pencil or an idea alone the artist is capable of creating an ideal world of his own free from violence, market and justice.
Reality – a chaotic and meaningless material world – is but a sketch to be redone on the body of the Universe, and this is within the artist’s power. Before being born, the Diver creates the world out of nothing.
Does the artist have to stick to the images produced by a legion of designers and to reflect pictures of the outside world with the help of distorting mirrors, thus multiplying them ad infinitum? Wouldn’t it be better to turn the mirror to oneself and to open up in front of it to one’s metaphysical depths?
Faith in the ideal and the fantastic reveals facts of different intensity of being and opens various ontological horizons.
Isn’t it a privilege to be an idealist nowadays? To decide to become an artist means today to follow the road of St. Francis of Assisi. When you cover this road you will be able to talk to birds, and angels will share their secrets with you, as they did with Swedenborg in his time. You will be able to notice small and insignificant things because they mirror something eternal and significant.
Artists and poets allow themselves to believe in the impossible and the unattainable, to build utopias and castles in the air and to inhabit the earth with imaginary worlds. We can thus show other roads rather than one and the same that a generalized human being usually takes.
Artists exist in society, serving as fine membranes that connect the visible world with the invisible fields around. Being fine and insignificant, they are thus themselves invisible. Always on the edge, the finer they get the closer they are to non-existence, they disappear without a trace, dissolving in their works. This worthy lot bordering on selfless devotion is not chosen but granted from time out of mind. One can be like that only if one believes in the ideal.
What ideal artists create is above life, and life cannot explain it. They create their own space that is governed by imagination, pervaded with happiness and attracts those around.
Their art is autonomous and part and parcel of them; they shed the burden of memory, get over knowledge and become innocent. Every time the products of such artists are pure and independent, and their work itself is the achievement of freedom.
Art gives us a chance to become free, and in this freedom we find faith in the ideal. Wherever there was doubt before, faith roots itself, and immediately despair gives way to hope and sorrow becomes joy.

Leonid Tishkov, 12 July 2006
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27.10.09

Private Moon in Linz_3












Photo by Miklos Boros , Otto Saxinger and Karin Hofbauer
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15.10.09

LIGHT ALL AROUND


15.10.09 – 15.11.09

Leonid Tishkov

LIGHT ALL AROUND
To Vsevolod Nekrasov


The poet Vsevolod Nekrasov came to every one of my exhibitions. Instead of attending the opening ceremonies he used to come later, all alone, and examine the display. I was later told that Seva Nekrasov had visited the gallery, scrutinized everything, liked something and disapproved of something else. He once wrote a large poem about my Private Moon. At the latest exhibition the House of Artist he singled out The Starry Sky in Shoe Boxes especially: he liked those black cardboard boxes pierced by shining stars very much. Now that the autumn of 2009 is here, and we have “September and October both ending in ber,” the time has come for another show of mine. But my special rare guest, the poet Vsevolod Nekrasov, won’t be able to attend it for the obvious reason: “one cannot stay here,” on the ski-track because one has “to see the sky”. That’s why I have made an exhibition, with Vsevolod Nekrasov present again. He’ll be Here and Now. Here are his poems. Here are his skies. Here is his moon. Here is his light. Light is all around, and in the center of light is a tiny dot – the celestial skier Seva – light and all.
“This is all.
All and nothing else.
All and nothing else.
And everything’s fine.
And everything’s fine.
All and everything.”





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