Presse mappe - Observatoire

Galerie Rabouan MoussionDirector : Jacqueline RabouanGallery creadon’s year: 1989www.galerie-­‐rabouan-­‐moussion.comrabouanmoussion@noos.fr+33 1 48 87 75 91121, rue Vieille du Temple75003 ParisKirill Chelushkin, Un-tled, 2012. Graphite on canvas, 205 x 215 cm © Galerie Rabouan MoussionFocus ardst : Kirill Chelushkin, born in 1968Prices of the works: from 6 000 € to 30 000 €Kirill Chelushkin was born on the outskirts of Moscow in 1968. Ager training as an architect, he devoted himself to illustradons and drawing.In the late 1990s, he made acquaintance with the ardst and theorist Dimitry Goutov and his Livchitz Insdtute. This club for aesthedc and ideological reflecdon reinterprets the thinking of the Soviet art historian, Michael Livchitz, an ardent defender of socialist realism, and cridcizes the formalist deviances of modernism. This encounter encouraged Kirill Chelushkin to pracdce an art essendally visual, but more axed on the reality surrounding him. He made a series of drawings of Moscow seen through his car windscreen. «Moscow Mood» describes a dark misty city like a nocturne by Whistler, an impressionist road movie in a city in complete chaos.His portraits are imbued of socialists’s techniques and subjects.Krill Chelushkin plays with the textures of the world cides reflecdons in the rain, mud truck stuck, moonlight scahered by streetlights ... This cataclysmic realism reminds us of the fragility of being in a world where nature takes its course.In 2005, Chelushkin took to sculpdng figures in thick slabs of white polystyrene. In parallel, he condnued his photo and video invesdgadon into the old forbidden cides and the factories in decline, monumental remains that dominate the Russian landscape with their sublime, lugubrious silhouehes.He devotes himself to a representadon of the reality that surrounds him: that of a Russian polidcized, torn between memories of the past and the contemporary outrages.Presse mappe I Seite 66