Exhibition

Konstantin Baydakov. "Meeting Spaces"

Place

Gallery Erarta

29th line of Vasilievsky Island., 2

Category

Exhibition

Date

12 august 2021, 10:00 — 10 october 2021, 22:00

Price

от 600 rub

Events / Exhibition

The Erarta Museum presents the non-objective painting of Konstantin Baidakov, laconic in the northern way and genuine in the Pomor way.

The non-objective painting of Konstantin Baidakov from Severodvinsk is in many ways close to the searches that the first avant-garde artists undertook at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. The artist does not paint - he literally paints canvases, returning to the folk roots of abstraction. His works are reminiscent of homespun canvases hung to dry, walls of wooden houses washed by the rain and fences.

The exposition includes ten large-format works by the author, each of which serves as an example of the synthesis of arts. The artist cuts the canvases, revealing an uneven, natural edge of the surface - a flat painting turns into three-dimensional, goes beyond, becoming like a sculpture. This approach brings his work closer to the counter-reliefs of Vladimir Tatlin.

Northern laconicism is inherent in Baidakov's work. His abstractions show the flat sandy shores of the cold White Sea, fiery sunsets, the splash of gray waves. Ringing blue from frost, the flashes of the northern lights diverge in space ... Cutting the canvas, the artist reveals an uneven, natural edge of the surface - and it resembles a landscape where forest and river, sea and sky, polar day and white night. Baidakov's abstractions are the quintessence of northern life and nature.

The exposition will also feature Sergey Karev's object - a boat, one of the symbols of the deep north.