Mikhnov-Voytenko: co-existence

RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION FOR THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF E. MIKHNOV-VOYTENKO

Since 1956, E. Mikhnov-Voytenko was one of the first Soviet artists to begin working in an abstract expressionist manner and soon created an original aesthetic of spontaneous painting.

"His innovation will be appreciated in half a century: will make an exhibition at the Zimmerly Art Museum in the United States, in the first decade of the 21st century will publish large catalogs and diaries of the artist, works from the series "Tube" in the 2010s will appear in the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum, in 2016 they will be incorporated into the collection of the Pompidou Center and will be exhibited side by side with Pollock and Klein. The same work from the Russian Museum collection will be exhibited as Russian abstraction at the Haus der Kunst in Munich's epochal world exhibition "Post-War Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic. 1945 - 1965" - writes art historian Ekaterina Andreeva.

"Mikhnov-Voytenko: Co-Existence" is a retrospective but chamber project presenting more than twenty works from the period from the 1950s to the 1980s. Graphic works - subtle evidence of the author's reflections on the essence of art, the artistic gesture and being as an artist - are complemented by monumental pictorial manifestations.
Most of the works will be shown to the public for the first time in Russia - 33 years, they were in Finland, where the gallery "Hagelstam", in 1989, held a solo exhibition of the artist, which he began preparing in his lifetime.