The new exhibition of Andrey Krasulin, one of the great masters of Russian Contemporary Art, is the first solo project of the master for the pop/off/art Gallery.

Krasulin is well-known predominantly as an object-less artist, but in the given case all the gathered works are united by one figurative image – the image of a stool. This object, in the artist’s opinion, – is an “elementary construction in 3-dimensional space”, one of the simplest and simultaneously complex constructive forms invented by man. In his creativity the stool has become one of the universal metaphors of Art, and, partly, an illustration of the idea about the humility of the artist-innovator in front of the many hundreds of years of hand-made technology.

Some works, connected with this subject, are included in the collections of the two largest museums of Russia – the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum, many have dispersed into prestigious private collections throughout the world. In the exhibition are presented a few tens of works – painting, graphics, objects and sculpture, new works as well as ones made over the last two decades, from chamber “thumbnail sketches” to monumental panels, from monochrome compositions, in which the form of the object has practically dissolved in the metamorphoses of the background, to colourful extravaganzas in which Krasulin’s masterly painting skills are seen at their best. At the same time pop/off/art Gallery is also organising Andrey Krasulin’s solo exhibition “Bronze about Mandelstam”, which will be shown at the beginning of December in the Museum of Architecture.