Zlotnikov, Yuri Savelievich

Born in the Grauerman maternity hospital on Arbat, in the family of metallurgy scientist Savely Lvovich Zlotnikova and Ethel Lvovna Zlotnikova.

From 1943 to 1950 he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School at the USSR Academy of Arts ^[3]. At the same time he studied in the sculpture studio at the museum of A. S. Golubkina under the direction of A. I. Grigoriev. He listened to lectures at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, visits the Tabor-Efimov house.

From 1951 to 1959 he worked as the chief artist-designer at VDNH in the pavilion "Science".

• 1954-1956 - worked at the Bolshoi Theater as a trainee - decorator, works together with A. Tyshler, V. Ryndin. I. Rabinovich,
• 1961-1979 - directed the children's art studio of the House of Pioneers of the Leninsky district of Moscow,
• 1955-1970 - collaborated as a book illustrator in Moscow publishing houses,
• 1974-1989 - collaborated with the print shop of the graphic arts factory of the Moscow Union of Artists.

Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1974.

After attending lectures on cybernetics and mathematics , he began to study abstract art in the mid -1950s . His interests in a close circle of like-minded people were shared by artists V. Slepyan and B. Turetsky , in particular, together with Vladimir Slepyan , the so-called “simultaneous painting sessions” were held, which can be called the most radical experiments in European art of those years, at the junction of non-objective and performative art ^[4] . He described Vladimir Slepyan as his like-minded person in art, with whom their creative paths diverged: “There was one friend - Vladimir Slepyan. He studied with me at an art school. Then he entered the mehmat, then again returned to art. In the 50s, we worked a little together. Soon he left for France, there he was engaged in various activities. We were the first abstractionists. But I did it very hard. I had my own direction, my own language. Slepyan was an intellectual artist in a broader sense, which is why we parted. And other art groups arose later, when I had already developed my own language ” ^[5] .

In 1956-1957 he developed the “Signal System” in the visual arts, within the framework of which a thorough rapprochement of the scientific and artistic paradigms takes place. Together with psychologists, he conducted experiments, trying to understand how the human brain perceives the signals sent by the pictures. In 1958, organized the All-Union Exhibition of Electric Welding in the pavilion "Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture" based on the "Signal System". Works from the Signals series are included in the collection of the Pompidou Center .

Since the beginning of the 1960s, the artist was fond of engineering psychology, industrial design: he made design projects for schools and factory premises. He was engaged in teaching at the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists of the USSR , of which he became a member only in 1972 .

In the 1960s and 1980s, he experimented with figurative painting, later returned to rethinking modernist abstraction and created not only paintings, but also prints on canvas.

In 1998, he received the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts . He died in Moscow in 2016 at the age of 86. Retrospectives of Yuri Zlotnikov were exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow Museum of Modern Art , the State Russian Museum , the House of Artists (Jerusalem), etc.

• National Center for Arts and Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris. ^[6]
• State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow .
• State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg .
• State Museum of Fine Arts A.S. Pushkin , Moscow.
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art , Moscow .
• Museum ART4 , Moscow.
• National Center for Contemporary Art , Moscow .
• State Literary Museum, Moscow.
• State Museum L.N. Tolstoy, Moscow.
• State Historical, Architectural Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, Moscow.
• Far Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk .
• Museum them. Andrei Sakharov, Moscow
• Jane Voorhees Zimmerly Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection , Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus , New Jersey , USA .
• Museum, Helsinki
• Museum, Amsterdam
• Museum, Madrid
• National Museum of Art, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
• Museum, Ankara
• Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow
• Collection of G. Pospelov and M. Reformed, Moscow.
• Collection of V. Dyakov, Moscow.
• Collection L. Talochkina , Moscow.
• Collection of V. Dudakov, Moscow.
• Collection R. Klimov, Moscow.
• Bar Gera Collection, Cologne , Germany .
• Collection by I. Stolyarova Flying in the Wake of Light ^[7] , London
• Collection N. Brykina Zurich, Moscow.
• Private collection "Apartment Museum" R. Babicheva, Moscow
• Gallery De France, Paris, France
• Georges Olivier Gallery, Paris, France
• Binet Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Engel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Israel
• And in other private collections.

• 2018 - Yuri Zlotnikov. Cosmology of the artist. In three sections. Gallery of Nadi Brykina, Moscow,
• 2016 - Yuri Zlotnikov. From the private collections of the Tsukanov Family Foundation, Mikhail Alshibay, Mark Kurtser and the ART4 Museum. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
• 2015 - "Painting - an analysis of the psychophysiology of man and the display of his being space . " Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow
• 2011 - "Unofficial meeting" from the collection of N. Brykina Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2011 - The Movement. Space. Gallery N. Brykina, Zurich
• 2011 - “The Space of Yuri Zlotnikov”. Moscow Museum of Modern Art , Moscow . ^{[3] [8]}
• 2010 - Yuri Zlotnikov. Bewegung. Raum / Yuri Zlotnikov. Traffic. Space. Gallery of Nadi Brykina, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2008 - State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg.
• 2007 - “Yuri Zlotnikov. Retrospective. " State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow. ^[9]
• 2004 - State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow. ^[10]
• 2003 - Yuri Zlotnikov and Alexander Konstantinov. Discrete and concrete. NCCA , Moscow
• 2002 - "Art Festival", Delhi
• 2001 - Gallery M. Zandzman, Berlin
• 2000 - Exhibition for the 70th anniversary, Gallery "On Solyanka" , Moscow
• 2000 - Exhibition on the 70th anniversary, House of Artists on the Kuznetsk bridge, Moscow
• 1992 - Municipality Club, Ma'alot, Israel
• 1991 - Space, color, momentum. Artist's House, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1990 - Space, color, momentum. Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow / Warsaw
• 1990 - Festival of Russian Art "Helsinki
• 1987 - Creative evening in the framework of the exhibition "Retrospection of the work of Moscow artists. 1975-1987", the Hermitage association, Moscow
• 1986 - House of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1985 - Moscow House of Architect, Moscow
• 1978 - One-day exhibition and evening at the House of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1977 - Institute of Art History under the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, Moscow.
• 1972 - House of artists on the Kuznetsk bridge, Moscow

• “The main idea of ​​my work: we realize our mental activity. Art is a model of our inner life. Communication with mathematicians showed me that in addition to verbal operations, there is a simpler language - the language of our physiology. Many books have been published today; abstraction has become a fashion. If we were still interested in cognition, then today abstract art is a kind of position that carries a social burden ” ^[11] - Yuri Zlotnikov, 2013.
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  Yuri Zlotnikov
  “My line in art has a semantic-scientific character, I investigated the possibilities of the impact of painting on human thinking. All this made my fate more lonely, I could not have my own circle ” ^[5] - Yuri Zlotnikov, 2013.
• “Zlotnikov’s laboratory work has thousands of sketches, sheets - it’s like endless pictures of physical particles in Wilson’s chamber. It is difficult to say which of them finally clearly distinguishes the signal from. Judgments of taste here cannot always be a reliable criterion, for the beauty of a composition can be deceiving, turn out to be a concession, even involuntary, to the experience of taste. It is necessary not only to evaluate each work, but to extract the meaning from their entire mass and apply this extracted meaning to a separate work in order to understand it ” ^[12] - Alexander Rappaport , 1991 .
• “Yuri Zlotnikov is frantic in his work, he considers each work a masterpiece and sacredly believes in its uniqueness. He works hard, varying infinitely by color, geometric shapes, finding in them an understandable and incomprehensible meaning. Therefore, his picture dedicated to Malevich's “Black Square” is very symbolic. He passionately disputes Malevich’s confidence that this work puts an end to the color attitude to the world. Yuri Zlotnikov, with his catchy, tense, energetic strokes, as if destroys the “Black Square” and shows the infinity of color sensations, symbolism and metaphoricity of the entire surrounding world ” ^[13] - Evgraf Konchin, 2004 .

• gallery of works by Yuri Zlotnikov in the encyclopedia of painting WikiArt
• Zlotnikov, Yuri Savelievich / K.V. Dudakov-Kashuro // Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vol.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
• Elena Ishchenko. Yuri Zlotnikov: “They don’t leave the country in poor condition” (neopr.) . Colta.ru (September 25, 2013). Date of appeal September 25, 2016.
• Yuri Zlotnikov on the gallery website pop / off / art
• Yuri Zlotnikov on the ART4 Museum website
• Yuri Zlotnikov: "Ask questions and do not complete actions "
• Yuri Zlotnikov: “I always lived a little separately”