"Svetoprestavleniye" was inspired by the tragic but charismatic life of the mad avant-garde artist Sergey Kalmykov (1891-1967) – a Russian artist, a student of Petrov-Vodkin, and according to legend it was he who gave his teacher the idea – and even posed for – the famous "Bathing of the Red Horse”.
"Svetoprestavle-niye" was inspired by the tragic but charismatic life of the mad avant-garde artist Sergey Kalmykov (1891-1967) – a Russian artist, a student of Petrov-Vodkin, and according to legend it was he who gave his teacher the idea – and even posed for – the famous "Bathing of the Red Horse”.
In 1937 Kalmykov left for the "distant city of Alma-Ata", where he worked at the local opera and ballet theater until his death, and had been the first and only urban "freak", who dressed himself in self-made bright clothes "visible from space" and described his global-scale projects to strangers on the streets. Kalmykov called himself a Genius of the First Rank of the Absolute Interplanetary Category and developed ideas and theories about art, science, architecture, society, and the human genius.
In 1937 Kalmykov left for the "distant city of Alma-Ata", where he worked at the local opera and ballet theater until his death, and had been the first and only urban "freak", who dressed himself in self-made bright clothes "visible from space" and described his global-scale projects to strangers on the streets. Kalmykov called himself a Genius of the First Rank of the Absolute Interplanetary Category and developed ideas and theories about art, science, architecture, society, and the human genius.
The artist died in 1967 in complete obscurity, but he inspired generations of contemporary local artists and he has left behind more than 10,000 pages of manuscripts stored in the State Archive of Kazakhstan, as well as over 1,500 paintings, drawings and lithographs, which are housed in the collections of the Kasteev State Museum of Fine Arts, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum and the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts.
The artist died in 1967 in complete obscurity, but he inspired generations of contemporary local artists and he has left behind more than 10,000 pages of manuscripts stored in the State Archive of Kazakhstan, as well as over 1,500 paintings, drawings and lithographs, which are housed in the collections of the Kasteev State Museum of Fine Arts, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum and the Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts.
"Svetoprestavleniye" is the central part of the "The Streak of Immortality"↗ project – an endless creation of installations, exhibition projects, photographs, video art, audio art, and books – as a result of working with the textual, visual, semantic and life-creating assets of 10,000 manuscript pages and 1,500 paintings of the genius, the stupid cretin, the science-fiction projector, and the grandmaster of linear arts, Sergey Kalmykov.
"Svetoprestavle-niye" is the central part of the "The Streak of Immortality"↗ project – an endless creation of installations, exhibition projects, photographs, video art, audio art, and books – as a result of working with the textual, visual, semantic and life-creating assets of 10,000 manuscript pages and 1,500 paintings of the genius, the stupid cretin, the science-fiction projector, and the grandmaster of linear arts, Sergey Kalmykov.
Svetoprestavleniye premiered in Almaty on May 26, 2018. Svetoprestavleniye was the headliner of the "New Drama" international festival (The Meyerhold Center, Moscow) and a nominee for the Grand Prix of the 2018 Sergey Kuryokhin Award.
Svetoprestavle-niye premiered in Almaty on May 26, 2018. Svetopresta-vleniye was the headliner of the "New Drama" international festival (The Meyerhold Center, Moscow) and a nominee for the Grand Prix of the 2018 Sergey Kuryokhin Award.
