Picture "Sunrise / Sunset", framed
Picture "Sunrise / Sunset", framed
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limited, 199 copies | numbered | signed | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 105 x 105 cm
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Picture "Sunrise / Sunset", framed
Bulatov's "Sunrise / Sunset" plays with the classical repertoire of art history. The monumental landscape painted in photorealistic mania shows the vast expanse of the ocean in front of a clear horizon line. The globe with hammer and sickle as the sun is an ironic symbol of the old world order, no more than a nostalgic reminiscence: sunrise or sunset? Light or clouds? Bulatov deliberately leaves the question open, which the viewers have probably answered for themselves long ago.
Giclée print on canvas, 2007. Hand-signed by the artist on the front. Limited edition of 199 copies, numbered on the back. Stretched on a stretcher frame. Size 100 x 100 cm. Framed in a sophisticated black and silver shadow gap frame. Size 105 x 105 cm.
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About Erik Bulatov
Art means freedom.
The Russian painter Erik Bulatov found himself in complete artistic isolation in the Soviet Union. He was separated from every Western development in contemporary art due to the Iron Curtain. Even at home, interactions with critics and the public was impossible, as Bulatov refused to be co-opted into the state-prescribed art canon and thus did not officially exist. In this intellectual vacuum, Bulatov, who earned his living as a children's book illustrator, developed his imagery, critically processing Socialist Realism as well as Russian Constructivism.
In order to create an opportunity for oppositional artists to present their work, Bulatov, together with colleagues such as Ilya Kabakov and Oleg Vassiliev, co-founded the "Sretensky Boulevard Group" in the 1960s, from which the artist group "Moscow Conceptualists" later emerged. But again, the governmental regulations of the Soviet art system interfered: In 1965, one of the first exhibitions he took part in Moscow was closed and banned after only one hour. Because of this experience, Bulatov emphasised the liberating power of art: "It has always been my conviction that the sphere of society has limits and that the path to freedom only leads through the sphere of art, which lies beyond these limits. Certainly, I know that this is not the universal path - but for me, it has always been the only possible one."
Erik Bulatov was born in 1933 in Sverdlovsk/Ural. He studied at the Moscow Art School and the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, where he graduated in 1958. Erik Bulatov is one of the most important contemporary artists in Russia today. In 2008, he became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Art. He lives and works in Paris. He has had solo exhibitions, among others, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, the Centre Pompidou, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover.
Giclée = derived from the French verb gicler "to squirt, to spray".
The Giclée method is a digital printing process. It is a high-resolution, large-format print produced with an inkjet printer using special different-coloured dye- or pigment-based inks (usually six to twelve). The inks are lightfast, meaning they are resistant to harmful UV light. They provide a high level of nuance, contrast, and saturation.
The Giclée process is suitable for art canvases, handmade paper and watercolour paper as well as silk.