Mitki

The Mitki group formed in the 1980s and quickly grew into a mass movement, uniting artists, musicians, poets, writers, and numerous “sympathizers.” "Mitki" became one of the main components of the Leningrad unofficial art of the second half of the XX century .

The painting of the "Mitkov" of the 1980s is "urban folklore", with an open and somewhat ingenuous view of life, which reveals the poetry and beauty of everyday life. The playful, literary character of the Mitkovsky movement is successfully combined with the preservation of the high pictorial traditions learned by them from the artists of the Arefyevsky Circle ( Alexander Arefyev , Richard Vasmi , Sholom Schwarz , Vladimir Shagin , Boris Smelov ), which Mitki always recognized as their teachers.

Since the 1990s, the group has been recognized, the work of "Mitky" exhibited at numerous exhibitions, fall into the museum collection. Articles, art criticism essays, and even dissertations are written about Mitkah. The group becomes a kind of "calling card" of St. Petersburg.

A peculiar socio-aesthetic movement has been formed around Mitkov, the participants of which manifest themselves in art, prose, poetry and lifestyle. The main principles of this style are kindness, a few tearful love of neighbor, compassion, utmost simplicity in speech and dress, love of alcohol. The lexico-grammatical peculiarities of Mitka's speech are the frequent use of the words “brother” (“brother”, etc.) and “little sister”, as well as love for diminutive suffixes.

In 1992 - 1993 periodically published " Mitki-Gazeta ".

The transition of the art project, which was more likely a parody of a certain subculture and the personality of Dmitry Shagin, manifested itself in the emergence of the image of Mitya out of control of the original group of Petrograd artists. This is primarily Moscow Mitki (an expression that was originally an oxymoron ), whose cult literature was created by Ass and Behemoths, and the new Mitka . Each of the new "generations" expanded Mitka's vocabulary and understanding of them.

Artists included in the group after 1986 :

Artists who were part of a group at different times

• Sotnikov Ivan
• Mikhail Sapego
• Vladimir Solovyov

Artists who participated in joint exhibitions of Mitkov at different times :

• x / f "City" (1990, Lenfilm , dir. Alexander Burtsev, script V. Shinkarev, V. Tikhomirov)
• Mitki in Paris ( 1989 )
• “ Mitki do not want to win anyone, or Mitkimayer ” ( 1992 , dir. A. L. Vasiliev )
• C / c “ Agent of National Security ”, series “Passions according to Filonov” (1999) (dir. Vitaly Aksenov)

“The Gospel of Mitki” ^[1] (the full title of “The Life of the Great Mitka of Jesus by Christ’s Click and how he dragged and how his enemies soaked ”) was written in 1990 in Kharkov by Michael Shilman and was distributed in a narrow circle to 1993 , when it fell into Fidonet and gained popularity.

Although the Gospel of Mitkov inherited quite a lot from Mitki: vocabulary , relaxation as a virtue - but he also had great contradictions with the aesthetics of traditional Mitkiv (at the lexicon level, these are the expressions “cool dude ”, “sons”, the hobby of characters in drugs, and not alcohol), and in general, it described, rather, the aesthetics of another subculture - rastamans (see Rastamanskie fairy tales Dmitry Haiduk ).

In 1992-1993, Mitki-Gazeta ^{[2] was} published in St. Petersburg — a periodical of Mitki. The idea of ​​the project belonged to Yuri Molodkovtsu with the support of Igor Kuras. Vladimir Shinkarev , Dmitry Shagin, Alexander and Olga Florensky, Vasily Golubev, Andrey Filippov, Mikhail Sapego and others actively participated in the project. The newspaper was published irregularly, there is information about the numbers for 1992 , 1993 and 1998 . ^[3]

The works of Oleg Grigoriev (including one of the few lifetime publications of the poet in the first issue of Mitka-Gazeta) ^[4] , Roald Mandelstam , and Vladimir Uflyand were published. Also published "Mitkovskaya Alphabet", articles and graphic works Mitkov. The newspaper is a vivid example of the Petersburg artistic underground of the early 90s of the 20th century .

• 1990 Ed. G.M. Shukan, ill. Alexander O. Florensky. "Mitki described by Vladimir Shinkarev and drawn by Alexander Florensky." Ed. JV SMART, 32 p., Circulation of 100,000 copies.
• 1996 Mitki. “Blow - Up / Blow - Up. Exhibition". Ed. Mitkilibris, 26 p., Circulation of 3000 copies.
• 1996 V.N. Shinkarev . “Maxim and Fedor. Papuans from Honduras. Home hedgehog. Mitki. ”(Petersburg Prose series.) 352 p., 5,000 copies, - SPb .: ed. New Helikon, - p. 205-272. - ISBN 5-87145-015-6 ( electronic version ).
• 1998 V.N. Shinkarev . "Mitki". Ed. Red Sailor, 184 s., ISBN 5-7187-0107-5 ;
• 1998 Vladimir Shinkarev, Mikhail Sapego “Works: Mitki”. Ed. Red Sailor, 163 p.
• 1999 Mitki, P.V. Krusanov . "Selected". Ed. Canon, 288 pp., Circulation of 10,000 copies, ISBN 5-7301-0127-8 (err.) ;
• 2000 Mitki. "About zaek". Modern Prose, 384 p., Circulation 7000 copies, ISBN 5-264-00381-5 ;
• 2003 Mitki Group., Alexander Florensky, Dmitry Shagin . "Mitki: archetypes." Ed. Mitkilibris, 42 p.
• 2004 Mikhail Sapego , Alexandra Kiseleva, Mitki Group. "Duc, Duc, Duc--". Ed. Mitki, 43 s.
• 2005 Dmitriy Desyaterik Alternative Culture. Encyclopedia". - Ekaterinburg: Izd. Ultra. Culture Ultra.Culture , 240 p., Circulation 3000 copies. - C. (102—103), ISBN 5-9681-0028-1 ;
• 2007 "Mitki: painting, graphics, collages, photographs." Ed. Sharp.
• 2008 Mikhail Sapego . "Mitki". Ed. Amphora, 416 s., Circulation of 3000 copies. ISBN 978-5-367-00671-1 ;
• 2010 L. A. Skobkina , Dmitry Shagin, Andrey Filippov, Mitki Group. “Mitki. 25th anniversary. Catalog of the anniversary exhibition at the Central Exhibition Hall Manezh. (Author.-comp.) - SPb .: Izd. Tetra, 94 p.
• 2010 V.N. Shinkarev . "Mitki". Ed. Amphora, 512 s., Circulation of 3000 copies, ISBN 978-5-367-01633-8 ;
• Appendix: materials to the history of the Mitkov movement (articles from Mitki-Gazeta). // Ibid, p. 274-349.

• MITKI-ART Center
• Mitki (MUTbKU) - Mitkovskaya page on Kulichki
• Article by Alexander Karpov "New Mitki"
• "Mitki split because of Medvedev" + V. Shinkarev about split Mitky (video)
• Unofficially official list Mitkov
• Article by Vladimir Rekshan "Mitkovskie dance"
• Festival "Mitkovsky songs" - the city of Nikolaev
• Audio Record "Gospel of Mitki" Slava Kuchinsky (inaccessible link)
• Dmitry (Mitrich) Drozdetsky
• Mitki give son Ivan the Terrible
• Electronic copies of the newspaper "Mitka" in the NFM Guidebook "Newspapers in the network and outside it"