Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov
Erik Wladimirowitsch Bulatow ( Russian Эрик Владимирович Булатов ; born September 5, 1933 in Sverdlovsk ) is a Russian painter .
life and work
Bulatow studied 1947 to 1952 at the Surikow Art Institute Moscow and graduated there (1952-1958). He turned to abstract painting very early on, and in the 1960s, when dealing with Russian constructivism , found his own visual language that combines hyperrealistic representations with signs and symbols.
The use of iconography and the insignia of socialist realism is often ironic, and he often works with several layers of images. Realistic representations of people, landscapes or urban sceneries are related to words and symbols, whereby writing, symbol and image complement or contradict each other. Since the opportunity to work as a painter in the Soviet Union was taken from him, he illustrated z. B. storybooks. Only with perestroika , which Bulatov also ironically processed, did his work find recognition. More recent works show that Bulatow has retained a critical view of social conditions.
His pictures were shown in a retrospective in the New Tretyakov Gallery (at Krymskiy Val) until November 2006 , which should secure him the long-earned recognition in Russia as well. The majority of the works exhibited there, however, belong to museums in the West; only a few have so far been bought by Moscow private collectors or the Fund for Contemporary Art . He currently lives in Paris with his wife.
In 2009/2010 Bulatow was among others with his work Perestrojka from 1989 in the Kunsthalle Wien in a collective exhibition in 1989. End of history or beginning of the future? represented. Erik Bulatow is represented by the Arndt Gallery in Berlin and the Piece Unique Gallery in Paris.
literature
- Erik Bulatov , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/1988 of October 10, 1988, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Erik Wladimirowitsch Bulatow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gallery Arndt Berlin: Erik Bulatov
- kunstaspekte press release kestnergesellschaft Erik Bulatov 2006
- artnet: Erik Bulakov
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bulatow, Erik Wladimirowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bulatov, Eric Vladimirowitsch; Булатов, Эрик Владимирович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sverdlovsk |