Vladimir Yankilevsky

"MY COMBINATIONS, WHICH I CALL "THE SPACE OF EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE" IS A CERTAIN IMAGE OF THE GAME OF WORLD POWERS. THOUGH, NOT A PHYSICAL-MATHEMATICAL IMAGE, BUT AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC. IN OTHER WORDS, I CREATE THE GAME OF THESE WORLD POWERS THROUGH A HUMAN EMOTION. THIS IS AN IRONIC ATTITUDE TO THE LEVEL OF HARMONY, WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN CANONIZED. WITHOUT THIS IRONY WE CANNOT ENTER THE NEW LEVEL OF HARMONY, THAT CORRESPONDS TO THE MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A HUMAN BEING AND AN INERT SUBSTANCE."

Vladimir Yankilevsky was a painter and sculptor. In the early 1960s, he developed the concept of a triptych as a trinity of male, female and the universe. The direction in which the artist worked can be called "Epic expressionism". In the 1970s, he worked on the idea of ​​creating an "existential box" — the space of human existence. Vladimir Yankilevsky creates a number of objects representing "real" dummy characters and spatially picturesque places. The artist’s works have been presented at solo exhibitions, in galleries and museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum Ludwig (Cologne), the National Gallery Prague and others.