24 Mar - 17 Apr 2016

Painter’s studio. Creativity as a knowledge of the world

Anatoly Putilin is one of the well-known representatives of the Gazanev culture, a participant in the first legendary exhibitions of the Leningrad underground. It was in the Nevsky House of Culture that Putilin first exhibited his Ovoids (spatial and spiritual hypostasis of the oval), which for many years remained a constant theme in his work - in Leningrad, in the late 70s, and in France, where the artist emigrated. In Russia, after emigration, he took part only in collective exhibitions. It is significant that the St. Petersburg solo exhibition will be held in the anniversary year of the painter.

The exhibition will feature paintings from different years, where the main characters are Easel, Ovoid and Spheroid. The works included in the exhibition, allow you to see the creative process of the master, his philosophical understanding of the universe and the place of the painter in it. “... For many years now, Ovoid is the dominant motive of almost all my works. It was a small feat, a victory over oneself, over the chaos that I owned, and aspiration upwards, ” - the artist writes in his monograph, published in 2000 in France,“ You should be recognized by your Sign, which is your own, “hone”, your form, so that they would recognize and distinguish you by it. And your signature will not help you, you write it even on the whole canvas ... ".

Report from the opening of the exhibition Anatoly Putilin. Channel St. Petersburg, the program "Artifacts." Watch from 13 minutes.

Anatoly Putilin

Born in 1946 in the city of Bratsk, Nikolaev region (Ukraine). Up to six years with his parents lived in Kharkov, then in Donetsk.

In 1952, the family moved to the Far East, to the city of Sovetskaya Gavan, Khabarovsk Territory.

In 1961 he entered the Art School in the city of Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous Region).

In 1964 he was expelled. Worked for a year at a ship repair factory in Sovetskaya Gavan.

From 1965 to 1968 he served in the Pacific Navy.

In 1968 he entered the third year of the Leningrad Art College named V.Serov on the branch of industrial graphics.

In 1970 he received a diploma.

In the 70s he took an active part in exhibitions of unofficial artists.

In 1978 he was forced to leave the USSR.

Since 1979 he lives in Paris.

Main solo exhibitions:

1980 - Gallery Charveriat, Lyon, France

1982 - Gallery "Gorky Gallery", Paris

1986 - Gallery G. Basmadzhan, Paris

1990 - Alexandra Pastushkevich Gallery, Honfleur, France

1996 – “Art actuelé Gallery”, Perpignan, France

1996, 1997, 1998 - Gallery "Mode d’Expressions", Perpignan, France

1999 - Gallery "Façade", Paris

1999 - Retrospective, Mode d’Expressions Gallery, Perpignan, France

2000 - Retrospective in the chapel of Saint-Dominique and in the gallery “Mode d’Expressions”, Perpignan, France.

- The publication of the artist's monograph

2002 - Mode d’Expressions and Art Actuel Galleries, Perpignan, France

2003 - Carré des Coignard Exposition Hall, Nogent-sur-Marne, France

- Gallery "Art actuel", Perpignan, France 2004 Gallery "Castan", Perpignan, France

2004 - Gallery "Art Aktyuel" "Workshop", Perpignan, France

2006 - “Castan gallery” “Space of the Cross”, Perpignan, France

2009 - Gallery "Russian World", "Image and imagination", Paris, France

2012 - “Castan gallery” “Divertimento”, Perpignan, France

2013 - Etienne de Kazan Gallery, Paris, France

Main group exhibitions:

1973 - The Leonardo Club, Department of Psychology, University of Leningrad, Leningrad, USSR

1974 - Exhibition at the apartment of the poet K.Kuzminsky, Leningrad, USSR

1975 - Nevsky House of Culture, “Painting of Nonconformist Artists”, Leningrad, USSR

1976 - Palais de Congrés, “Contemporary Russian Painting”, Paris, France

1976 - Gerber F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

1976 - “The Unofficial Art of the USSR”, London-Washington

1977 - Gallery Stancheva, Dusseldorf, Germany

- Venice Biennale, Italy

- “Soviet Informal Art”, Municipal Museum, Tokyo

1979 - “Moscow - Paris”, Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Montgeron, France

- Salon "Art Sacré", Grand Palais, Paris

1980 - Russian Artists of the Twentieth Century, Obon, Switzerland

1981 - Autumn Salon, Grand Palais, Paris

1983 - "Erotica", gallery "Gorky Gallery", Paris

1987 - Nakhamkin Gallery, New York - Los Angeles

1988 - Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Hermitage, Leningrad, USSR

1992 - Gallery "Difference", Paris, France

1996 - Audience Award, Nogent-sur-Marne, France

2002 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Ceret, France

2003 - Gallery L’Entrepot, Paris, France

2004 - Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois, "Changes in the East", France

2004- City Hall of Chalons-en-Arden, Champagne-Arden, France

2004 - Festival of Contemporary Art, Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia

2005 - Nim - “ArtENIM”, International Contemporary Art Fair, France

2006 - Strasbourg, European Contemporary Art Fair, France

2010 - Lille, European Contemporary Art Fair, France

2010 - Paris and Nogent-sur-Marie, “Big Names, Small Formats”, France

2010 - House of Katalania, Mies en Seine, France

2010 - Museum of Nonconformism, St. Petersburg, Russia

2010 - Noorduend Gallery, The Hague, Holland

2014 - “Nonconformists 40 Years Later”, St. Petersburg, Russia

2014 - “Leningrad Underground”, St. Petersburg, Russia

The works of A. Putilin are in a number of famous museums, art funds and private collections.