Erik Bulatov
Erik Bulatov was born 1933 BirthSverdlovsk, Ural, Russia.
Lives and works in HomeParis, France.
Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov
Categories: Painting Printmakers Drawing Moscow Conceptualism
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Isolated from all Western art developments, Erik Bulatov has created an independent form of expression by subtly transforming the officially propagated Socialist Realism in style and content.
We have come to a watershed. After more than fifty years of social and cultural isolation, we have come to take our place on the scene of international culture. It would be foolish not to anticipate complex and significant problems. The most prominent, although to my mind it is not the most important among them, is the market. In the past, very few artists have been given the opportunity to show their work in official exhibitions, or to earn a living by painting. Most could only dream of it while plying some other trade for their bread…
"Painting is my fulcrum, I can turn the world around with it; painting is my interlocutor helping me find answers’, – Erik Bulatov says in the documentary film timed to his current retrospective exhibition ‘Here’."
The eye is drawn past the rooftops in the foreground to the blood-red horizon. Although the strobe light lures the viewer ahead, the artist has noted that this painting "deals with the past, not the future…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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