12 december – 30 september
The All-Russian Decorative Art Museum presents an art object by anonymous artist Krasil Makar as part of the festival "Here and Now. Contemporary Art on the City Streets", which started on 8 September 2023.
The spatial composition "Cosmoromashka" combines vibrations of bright colours and soft smoothed forms. The work has a hidden reference to the tradition of fortune-telling on a flower. However, the process may have been interrupted as some of the petals remain intact. The viewer can become that protagonist by continuing the recounting.
In his work Makar uses separate elements, protoforms, from painting in the technique of Ural fly painting - painting in one stroke, with simultaneous application of whitewash and paint on the sides of the brush. The resulting alphabet - "berries", "petals", "leaves" and "postscripts" - became the basis of the author's figurative writing. The artist accompanies his works with a small poetic commentary - a hint to the story hidden in the work.
Krasil Makar, according to his biographical legend, was born in 1889 in a peasant family in the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha in the present-day Sverdlovsk region. From 1901 to 1939, in his spare time, he worked as a dyer, painting huts and household utensils. The age of the artist - 134 years old - explains his inextricable connection with folk heritage and its logical integration into current practices.
In 2017, Makar moved to Ekaterinburg and announced himself with the first street projects actualising traditional Ural painting. And by 2022, the author is developing planar solutions into sculptural forms.
The artist has four solo exhibitions in Moscow and Ekaterinburg, including "Krasil Makar. The Emergence of the Author" at the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, as well as dozens of street art integrations throughout Russia. The author has participated in the II Triennale of Russian Contemporary Art, V Urals Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Artmossphere Street Art Biennale and contemporary art fairs in Moscow and Milan. In 2020 Makar won the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize for Contemporary Art in the nomination "Art in Public Space".
Festival organiser: Zaryadye Park.