Igor Novikov (painter)
Igor Alekseevich Novikov, also Igor Alexejewitsch Nowikow, (Russian: Игорь Алексеевич Новиков) (born 2 January 1961 in, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Swiss- Russian painter, Nonconformist Art, art theorist, philosopher, graphic artist member of the Russian Academy of Arts .
Life
Igor Novikov was born in a family of a famous artist academician Alexey Novikov (Russian: Новиков Алексей Иванович) member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He belongs to the generation of Moscowian Soviet Nonconformist Art painters who have been shaped by the demise of the Soviet Union. Igor Novikov now lives and works on Zurich, Switzerland. Igor A. Novikov grew up in Moscow. He attended the Ilja-Repin primary and secondary school of Fine Arts.
1981 he started to study at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts Vasily Surikov, the central institute for fine arts in the Soviet Union. In 1987 he completed his studies with the Diploma in Painting. Novikov List of Russian artists the term Soviet Nonconformist Art refers to art produced in the former Soviet Union from 1953-1990 (after the death of Joseph Stalin until the advent of Perestroika and Glasnost) outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Afterwards he founded with young colleagues the colony of artists "Furmanny Lane" in Moscow within the movement of Russian Soviet Nonconformist Art and was member of the group until the closure in 1991. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Nonconformist Art before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Russia. "NO! and the Conformists”, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, catalogue issued. 1986 Personal exhibition at the “Remont” gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Novikov joined the Union of Soviet Artists 1987, and after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Russia.
1989 "Red and White” exhibition, Hala GWARDIA, Warsaw, Poland, catalogue published. Igor Novikov received the opportunity for first exhibitions already as student. After the participation within several group exhibitions in Russia, he was permitted to exhibit abroad.
1990 “Furmanny Lane”, exhibition at the City Museum Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland, with catalogue. 1992 Personal exhibition at Villa Turque Le Corbusier, EBEL, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, catalogue.
1991 exhibitions "NEW Conformists Exhibitions”, and Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Torun, Poland, with catalogue.
Igor A. Novikov Solo retrospective national exhibitions took place 1993 in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (solo exhibition) and 1994 within the comprehensive collective exhibit of the art of Russian nonconformists in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Personal exhibition retrospective the Russia Pavillonat the Russian Chamber of Commerce Seville Expo '92. 1994 Personal exhibition retrospective at the Russian Chamber of Commerce, Moscow. From 1990 to 1993, he worked with a UNESCO scholarship in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Exhibitions „ Artistes Russes". 1996 Personal exhibition at the Moscow City Council. Exhibition at the „Russian House" and Francisco Infante-Arana, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Budapescht
1997 Personal exhibition presented by Art Collection Otto, Streletzki, Berlin, catalogue issued. 2002 exhibition Igor Novikov and Alexey Novikov, Valeri Zelinski, Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny,supported by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland, Switzerland . 2003 Personal exhibition at Design Center, Langenthal, Switzerland, with support of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland. 2005 Personal exhibition at Altstadhalle, Zug, Switzerland.
2008 Exhibition at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Kolodzei Art Foundation of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation USA, with catalogue. „Igor Novikov: Goodbye Russia” catalogue for the Solo Exhibition retrospective at Koller Auctions, Zürich. Kunstberatung Zürich AG, 2009.
Exhibitions retrospective „Igor Novikov: Impression 100/50" catalogue for the Solo Exhibition at Nadja Brykina Gallery AG, Zürich, and Russian Contemporary Arts Foundation,supported by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland Zürich 2010. More work stays in Western countries followed, e.g. in Klagenfurt, Austria, and in Berlin, Germany.
Since 1979, Igor Novikov has participated in over a hundred group exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including the first show of nonconformist art. Works by Novikov can be found in the collections of major museums: the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Ludwig Museum major public collections in Russia, Europe, and the United States
Since 1999 he lives and works in Bern, Zurich Switzerland.
Works
Igor Novikov blends in his paintings diverse techniques, styles and time levels. As background he often applies classical paintings from the world heritage of fine arts, in particular master pieces of Russian painters of the 19th century. He replicates these works while alienating them superficially with graphical figures or pictograms. This gives to the paintings surprising and often ironic relationships to real life and current situations. Thus his works become testimonies of the transition of the Soviet Union to modern Russia, but also of Swiss or European issues. This contradiction of well-known classics and modern alienation results in strong messages and effects.
Exhibitions
2017
- Personal exhibition at the SHCHUKIN GALLERY 4, avenue Matignon 75008 Paris, France with catalogue
- Personal exhibition at the Jedlitschka Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland catalogue
2016
- Personal exhibition in Plyos State Museum of Landscape of history, architecture and art Russia
2015
- Personal exhibition Museum and Exhibition Center Association Moscow
2014
- Personal exhibition at the Du Château Gallery, Môtiers, Switzerland
2013
- Personal exhibition at gallery im Schloss Hünigen, Switzerland
2012
- Personal retrospective exhibition at the Russian Contemporary Arts Foundation, Zürich
2010
- Personal retrospective exhibition at the Nadya Brykina Gallery, Zurich, with catalogue, supported by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland
2011
- Exhibition and Alexey Novikov gallery KLOSBACH 45, Zürich
2010
- Personal exhibition and Alexey Novikov gallery Kunstberatug, Zürich
2009
- Personal exhibition retrospective at the Koller Auction, Zurich, with catalogue
2008
- Personal exhibition at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, with catalogue
2007
- Personal exhibition gallery Spillgerte, Enetchirel, Switzerland
- Exhibition at Europ'ART Art Fair, Geneva, Switzerland, with catalogue
2006
- Personal exhibition Gartenflugel Gallery, Ziegelbrucke, Switzerland
- Exhibition at Europ'ART Art Fair, Geneva, Switzerland, with catalogue
- Personal exhibition at Adler Gallery, Geneva, Gstaad, Switzerland and London, UK
2005
- Personal exhibition at Altstadhalle, Zug ,Switzerland
2004
- Personal exhibition at "O" Gallery, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
- Personal exhibition at Franziskanergasse Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2003
- Personal exhibition at the Gallery in Schloss Hünigen, Switzerland
- Personal exhibition at Arte Fiz Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
- Personal exhibition at Design Center, Langenthal, Switzerland, with support of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland
2002
- Personal exhibition at the Du Château Gallery, Môtiers, Switzerland, with support of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland
- Personal exhibition at Au Paon Gallery, Avenches, Switzerland
- Personal exhibition at the Russian Chamber of Commerce, Moscow, supported by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland and Swiss Embassy in Moscow and the Moscow City Hall
- "Artistes russes" exhibition at the City Museum "Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny" supported by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland, Switzerland, with catalogue
2001
- Exhibition at the Gallery of Christine Brügger, Bern, Switzerland
- Personal exhibition "Im Höchhus" Gallery, Küsnacht, Switzerland
2000
- Personal exhibition at "Im Hof" Gallery, Zug, Switzerland
- Exhibition at "O" Gallery, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
1999
- Personal exhibition at the Russian Chamber of Commerce, Moscow
- Personal exhibition at the Callet Molin gallery, Vevey, Switzerland
1998
- Personal exhibition at the "Franziskanergasse Gallery", Salzburg, Austria
1997
- Personal exhibition presented by Art Collection Otto, Streletzki, Berlin, catalogue issued
1996
- Personal exhibition at the Moscow City Council
- Exhibition at the „Russian House" and Francisco Infante-Arana, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Budapescht
1995
- Personal exhibition at the “Radisson-Slavyanskaya” Hotel in Moscow
1994
- Personal exhibition at Schloss Landskron, Villach, Austria
- Personal exhibition at the Russian Chamber of Commerce, Moscow
- Personal exhibition at the Bank of Austria, Villach, Austria
1993
- Personal retrospective exhibition at the Museum "State Tretyakov Gallery", Moscow. Catalogue issued
- Personal exhibition at the Russian Foundation of Culture, Moscow
- “NO! and the Conformists”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, catalogue issued
- “NO! and the Conformists”, Museum of Warsaw, Poland, catalogue issued
- Personal exhibition at Hermagor Rathaus-Museum, Austria
- Auction “Perestroika”, “Drouot” Richelieu, Paris, France, catalogue issued
1992
- Personal exhibition "IL Cavaletto" gallery, Locarno, Switzerland, catalogue issued
- Art Expo “Tias”, Tokio. Japan, catalogue has been issued
- Personal exhibition at “Au Paon” Gallery, Avanches, Switzerland
1991
- Exhibitions "NEW Conformists Exhibitions”, at Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Torun, Poland, with catalogue.
- Personal exhibition at the "Morgan Manor”, San-Francisco, USA, with catalogue
- Personal exhibition at Villa Turque, EBEL, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, catalogue
- “Modern Art from Russia” and “Contemporary Masters” exhibitions at the Art Fair, Hong Kong
- Personal exhibition at the “La Plume” Gallery, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
1990
- “Furmanny Lane”, exhibition at the City Museum Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland, with catalogue
- Personal exhibition “Soviet Art of Glasnost”, at the “Du Cygne” Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
- Exhibition at the "InterArt" International Art Fair, Warsaw, Poland, with catalogue
- Exhibition at the International Art Fair “Herbst”, Frankfurt, Germany, with catalogue
1989
- "Red and White” exhibition, Hala GWARDIA, Warsaw, Poland, catalogue published
- “Red and White” exhibition, Havenmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, catalogue published
- “Furmanny Lane” exhibition, Museum of Technics in Warsaw, Poland, catalogue
1988
- Exhibited at the XIV International Art Fair “Perestroyka”, Rome, Italy, with catalogue
- Auction of Modern Art "Druout", Richelieu, Paris, France, catalogue issued
1987
- “Soviet Avant-Garde” exhibition at the Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentine
- “Russia’s Youth” exhibition, Helsinki, Finland
1987-90
- Exhibitions at Furmanny Pereulok, Moscow, USSR
- INTERART-87 exhibition at Art Fair, Poznan, Poland
1986
- Personal exhibition at the “Remont” gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Collection
- Ministry of Culture of Russia, Moscow
- State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- Russia’s Foundation of Culture, Moscow
- State Moscow’s Duma
- Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
- The Costakis Collection, Athens
- Russia’s Chamber of Commerce
- The Russian Academy of Arts
- Russian Contemporary Arts Foundation, Zürich
- Bank SKA, Switzerland
- Bank UBS, Switzerland
- Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation, USA
- Bank of Austria
- Kunstsammlung Otto, Streletzki, Berlin
- Ludwig’s collection
- The State Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- Collections Montres EBEL, Switzerland
- Corbusier House, Switzerland
- Adler, Geneva, London
- Partiy, A. Mineev, London
- FINNAIR
- Polish Foundation of Modern Art
- Mitsubici
- Nekrasow, Moscow
- Museum of Modern Art “MARS”, Moscow
- Gorbatchev’s Foundation
- EDH, Switzerland
- Collection of Talochkin, Moscow
- Collection of Nutovitch, Moscow
- Collection of Vasco de Andreade, Belgique
- Morgan
- Collections of City’s Museum: Moscow, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Amsterdam, France, Finland, Vienna, USA, Berlin
Gallery
- Goodbye Russia, 2003
- Kreml Marathon, 2004
- Russian Swing, 2004
- Launch Failure, 2005
- Russian Sudoku, 2005
- Diamond Grove, 2007
- Kreml Breakfast, 2007
- Auf Wiedersehen Europa (Goodbye Europe), 2007
- Happy End, 2009
- Gelati, 2012
Literature
- „Red and White". Open Haven Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1989.
- „Les ateliers de la rue Furmann". Ed. Jean-Pierre Brossard, Editions d'En Haut, Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland 1990, ISBN 2-88251-016-0.
- „Confrontation in Fine Arts Toruń 91". Centre of Contemporary Arts Toruń, Toruń, Poland 1991.
- „Igor Novikov". Catalogue for the Solo Exhibition, Editions d'En Haut, from the Series „Jeunes creators", La Chaux-de-Fonds 1992, Switzerland, ISBN 2-88251-049-7.
- In: „No – and the Conformists”, Faces of Soviet Art of 50s to 80s. Fundacja Polskiej Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Warszawa 1994. S. 384 – 389. ISBN 83-221-0648-3.
- „The Tretykov Gallery”. The Master Painters: Igor Novikov. Edition for the Solo Exhibition. Text in English and Russian. Geneva: Studio Editions, 1998. ASIN B0025XV87E.
- „Artistes Russes". Igor Novikov and Alexey Novikov, Yuri Zubenko, Valeri Zelinski, Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland 2002.
- „Igor Novikov - Misteries". Catalogue for the Solo Exhibition, Dominik Schoch, Studio Editions Bern, Bern 2008.
- „Igor Novikov: Goodbye Russia”. Catalogue for the Solo Exhibition at Koller Auctions, Zürich. Kunstberatung Zürich AG, 2009.
- „Igor Novikov: Impression 100/50". Catalogue for the Solo Exhibition at Nadja Brykina Gallery AG, Zürich, and Russian Contemporary Arts Foundation, Zürich 2010.
- „Igor Novikov"and many more exhibition Russian Academy of Arts Moscow, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Creative Russian contemporary ,Manege Government of Moscow department of culture Catalogues, 2015.
- «Igor Novikov Tatiana Nazarenko Alexey Novikov» Personal exhibition Jedlitschka Gallery, Zürich,
Switzerland, Catalogue 2017.
- «Igor Novikov Tatiana Nazarenko» SHCHUKIN GALLERY 4, avenue Matignon 75008 Paris, France Catalogue 2017.
External links
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- Official Website
- „The Russian Academy of Arts: V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute". http://en.rah.ru/content/en/section-2007-05-07-16-02-20.html
- „Russian Artists in Switzerland”, in „Journal of Russian Art”, Volume 2010 («Журнал Русское Искусство»), Russian. http://www.rusiskusstvo.ru/news.html?id=475.
- Igor Nowikow at Artprice, the Web Site and Data Base for Fine Arts. http://web.artprice.com/artist/51462/igor-novikov
- „The Risk to be Artist", in „Московский Комсомолец" № 25159 от 17 сентября 2009, Russian. http://www.mk.ru/culture/article/2009/09/16/351839-risk-ostatsya-hudozhnikom.html
- „Moskau - New York". Chelsea Art Museum, New York National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, Kolodzei Art Foundation, «Москва - Нью-Йорк» Парад нонконформистов И.Новикова 2008. http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/transcript/439955.html
- Festival of Russian Culture in Switzerland „Igor Novikov - Impression 100/50", Individual Exhibition. Greeting of the Russian Embassador in Switzerland Igor Bratchikov at the Nadja Brykina Gallery AG, Zürich. Вступительное слово Посла России в Швейцарии И.Б.Братчикова к каталогу выставки И.Новикова в Галерее Брыкиной 2010. http://www.switzerland.mid.ru/ru/posolvyst61_ru.html
- Igor Nowikow in the Nadja Brykina Gallery Zürich. http://www.brykina.ch/blogs/?&output_id=99&lang=de.
- Igor Novikov internet project dedicated to Russian art market. http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=160731
- Igor Nowikow and Alexei Nowikow in „Russischen Kunstjournal Monolithdigest”. German. http://www.monolithdigest.ru/pdf/21/Novikov.pdf