Born in 1965 in Moscow. A native Muscovite.
Great-grandfather of the artist Ilya Timofeyevich com, before the revolution, the Church elder Cosmas and Damian lived with a big family in Stoleshnikov pereulok. With him were neighbors and friends of famous Russian writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky, the author of the book "Moscow and Muscovites". The ancestors of the artist on the other line friends houses Feodor Chaliapin. Alex M. Gromov, the great-grandfather of the artist, writer, playwright, graphic, was born in Moscow. He was shot as an enemy of the people in 1937.
Instilled since childhood interest in old Russia, largely influenced the choice of life. Ilya Komov graduated in 1983 the Moscow secondary Art School and the Moscow state art Institute im. Surikov in 1989. In the years of the late Brezhnev -Andropov reaction together with Alexander Bass, Yulia Rutberg, Michael Bolduman part of a group of young confutation.
A major milestone in the development of the artist became creative trip to Pereslavl Zalessky, and working with famous masters, many years of friendship with restorers, studying and copying the frescoes Gury Nikitin in the Trinity Cathedral of the Danilov monastery.
Long trip to Italy in 1991 a completely new way has opened for Komova art of antiquity and the Renaissance. Recognized classics of the Renaissance, Carpaccio, Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, Michelangelo mastered the language conventions of the form as masterfully as pattern. From this point of view, they look sharper than Picasso, Braque, Malevich and Kandinsky in the solution of those tasks that were declared in the twentieth century.
But the most inaccessible, according to Komova, the top is the old Russian monumental painting. Even a completely untrained person. never read the gospel, entering into the temple, which was painted by Andrei Rublev, Dionysius, or Gury Nikitin sense of awe and spiritual uplift. The language of meteoric proportions, brilliant rhyming color shapes and is surprisingly simple and succinct compositional solutions similar to the music Express the way much more powerful and deeper than could be expressed in words.
In his art, Ilya Komov based on the experience of the masters of ancient murals, French, and Russian painting of the early twentieth century. This combination, along with the gift of vision of space and picturesque freedom allows the artist to achieve the depth of the images and the urgent emotionality of his works.
Since 1987, Ilya Komov regularly participates in exhibitions. Together with Anton Arkhipov, Pavel Durasov, Ekaterina Vasilyeva and Peter Brakovskis was part of an informal artistic Association "Kovcheg" (anticommercial a protest rally on Arbat street, exhibition in the Central House of the Physician and in the magazine "Youth"). In 1991 he joined the Union of artists. The winner of the contest "Golden brush", laureate of the Moscow Union of Artists.
To date, I. com - the author of 20 personal exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The first personal exhibition was held in 1994 in Helsinki.
Ilya Komov is the author of the project "Russian Portrait". In the framework of this project held solo exhibitions in the Central House of artists (under the auspices of the world Health Organization), the Russian Academy of Arts (awarded with the honorary diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts), at the residence of the Ambassador of Finland. In 2000, the magazine "people" elected Ilya Komov among the main personalities of the new Millennium.
In 2005 06гг. Ilya Komov has made creative expedition to India and created the series "Russian portrait of India" (nominated for the award of the Silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts). Chairman of the ruling Indian national Congress party Sonia Gandhi invited I. Komova on personal audience and appreciated his work. In a letter to mark the opening of the personal exhibition of the final I. Komova in the gallery "India International Centre" in new Delhi, Ms. Gandhi wrote, "Thank you for your love towards my people, so beautifully expressed in your works." In Moscow the exhibition "Russian portrait of India" was conducted in 2006 at the State Museum of the East and the Indian Embassy.
I. Komova works are in museums and private collections in Russia and abroad. In particular, the owners of the works of I. Komova are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, President of the Indian national Congress party Sonia Gandhi, the President of Finland Mauno Koivisto, Finnish Ambassador Rene Nyberg, the Australian Ambassador Leslie Rowe, a former world Bank country Director Michael Carter, Prince Peter Golitsyn.
According to I. Komova, in the art of the perfect sincerity, and inner simplicity, depth and integrity of the artistic language , a permanent solution to cosmetic problems. The main danger of emptiness, a literary and false gravitas. From this point of view, Stalin's socialist realism and the modern mainstream conceptualism and contemporary art - related conformist phenomenon. The real artistic process develops quite independently from noisy art fairs, markets and Biennale. A leader of the artistic process, today is a modern Spanish painting, for example , artists such as Regina Saura (Saura Regina)and Manel Anoro (Manel Anoro)/ Manel Anoro, according to Komov, is a distinguished master level of the great classics of world art history. Interesting modern American painters, for example, Barry Masteller ( Barry Masteller ). From masters of the past are still interesting Gury Nikitin, Alexei Morgunov from the group "Jack of diamonds", George Rublev, Matisse, Bonnard, Dufy and the German expressionists.
To be honest in art means to develop internally and for this it is necessary to follow the ways of our ancestors. Ilya Komov, member of the Board of Trustees of a Church of the Apostle Thomas in new Delhi, a member of the Parish Council of the temple of the Nine martyrs of Kyzikos in Moscow and member of the Leontief Church in Romanov Borisoglebsk.
Currently, Ilya Komov works in Moscow and the Romanov-Borisoglebsk (now Tutayev).
(Source: press release of the exhibition of Ilya Komov, "Choir", 2008)
