Borisov, Leonid Konstantinovich

Leonid Borisov
Leonid Borisov
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Leningrad , USSR
Date of death
Place of death	;
Citizenship	→
Genre	painter ; painter ; schedule ; sculptor ; photographer
Study	Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications
Style	abstractionism ; dada ; postmodernism
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Leonid Konstantinovich Borisov ( June 29, 1943 , Leningrad - January 6, 2013 , St. Petersburg ) - Soviet and Russian independent abstract artist, constructivist , Dadaist , master of paradoxical assemblages .

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Biography

In 1959 he visited the American exhibition in Moscow, in Sokolniki (American National Exhibition “Industrial Products of the USA” ^[1] . Here, 16-year-old Leonid, for his first time, got acquainted with abstract art, in particular, with Mark Rothko ’s painting 1956 “ Old gold over white . " ^[2]
In 1968, Borisov graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications (LETIS) .
In 1971, Leonid met Alexander Leonov , one of the leaders of the Gazanevschina in Leningrad; in 1975 Leonov proposed to participate in the exhibition "Painting, Sculpture and Graphics" in the Palace of Culture "Nevsky" ^[3] ; it was the creative debut of Leonid Borisov.

Since childhood, he had a penchant for drawing, went to school in the art studio. In the last year of the institute I met Leonov (he was the husband of the sister of one of my classmate), who studied at the Academy of Arts and was engaged in art that did not correspond to socialist realism. For this, he was later expelled from the Academy. Since he was focused on modern schools, I was interested in talking with him, watching what he was doing. He made drawings in the style of Filonov, I also began to draw in the same style. The essence of the method was that some topic was taken and developed in detail.
- Leonid Borisov. From an interview with Yuri Kalendariev

In 1974, in Moscow, Borisov witnessed the “ Bulldozer Exhibition ” (September 15) and visited September 29 “Open Air” (“Second Autumn Viewing of Pictures in the Open Air”) in Izmailovsky Forest Park . I met with Moscow nonconformist painters Oscar Rabin , Lev Kropyvnytsky , Vladimir Nemukhin , Dmitry Plavinsky , Sergei Bordachev , Vyacheslav Kalinin .
In 1978, the first solo exhibition of Leonid Borisov was held at the Krupskaya Palace of Culture in Leningrad.
In 1987, Borisov became a member of TEII ( Partnership of Experimental Fine Arts ).
In 1991 he participated in the exhibition "Contemporary Artists Malevich" in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow).
In 2005, the artist’s work was included in the permanent exhibition of the “Art of the 20th Century” section of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

The basis of all art is a formal idea. There is no creation without an idea. According to Kandinsky, the three whales of the picture are composition, improvisation, expression. The basis is a composition, in fact, an idea. Aids are improvisation and expression. I rely on these principles in my work. The first is an idea. Then - the form in which this idea should be put on, and the better the outfit, the better the idea sounds, and the more accessible the picture.
- L. Borisov. 11/10/2012

Leonid Borisov died of an extensive heart attack that happened to him on Christmas Eve, January 6, 2013, at the exit from the workshop on the street. Pushkinskaya, 10 in St. Petersburg, where he worked until the last minute. ^[four]

Personal exhibitions

1978: Krupskaya Culture House, Leningrad
1994: Cubism Gallery 21, St. Petersburg
1995: "Geometry"; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1998: "Geometry Lessons"; at the Rosizo Gallery, Moscow
1999: “Dedicated to Malevich”; Center for Contemporary Art St. Petersburg
2001: Dada Deformation; Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2001: Black Nights; Gallery "Point", St. Petersburg
2005: “Leonid Borisov. Painting, object, sculpture ”; Central House of Artists, Moscow
2005: “Concrete Art”; in the KINO gallery, Moscow
2007: “I LIVE - I SEE”; Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts / Tobolsk State Historical and Archival Museum-Reserve
2007: The Game; Art Center "Winery", Moscow
2010: "Playing the hopscotch" ; Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M. A. Vrubel
2013: “That's all” , the State Russian Museum - St. Petersburg, Marble Palace (June 27 - August 12)
2014, September 18 - 2015, January 16: "Geometry Lessons" by Leonid Borisov ; London , Elena Schukina Gallery
2015, February 12 - March 29: “Leonid Borisov. The first five-year plan. 1975-1979 " ; Gallery "DiDi" on Vasilyevsky , St. Petersburg. VIDEO ^[5]

Museum Collections

State Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg
State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
Penza Regional Art Gallery named after K. A. Savitsky
State Museum of Modern Art (Moscow)
Gallery of New Masters in Albertinum, Dresden
Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts
Kurgan Regional Art Museum
Orenburg Regional Art Museum
Jane Voorhees Simmerley Museum of Art Rutgers University , ( Norton Dodge Collection), New Jersey , USA
Russian Culture Fund
Tatyana and Natalya Kolodzey Foundation
Collection Bar Gera , Cologne , Germany - Ashdod , Israel

Literature

Leonid Borisov: Works 1975 / 1995.— St. Petersburg: Russian Museum, 1995
Karl Aymermacher , Evgeny Barabanov , Alexander Borovsky , Galina Manevich and others. Nonconformists. Second Russian avant-garde, 1955-1988. Bar-Hera / Hans-Peter Rize Collection. - Cologne: Wienand, 1996. - P. 92–96. - 320 p. - ISBN 3879094960 . ^[6]
100 names in contemporary art of St. Petersburg. Soros Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, 1997
Kononikhin N. Painting of Leningrad - St. Petersburg. From private collections. CD-ROM - St. Petersburg, 1998
Kononikhin N. Artists of the Apollo Society. The second Russian avant-garde. CD-ROM - St. Petersburg, 1999
Abstract art and the Apollo Society: works from the collection of Nikolai Kononikhin. Exhibition catalog. - St. Petersburg, 2001
Olga Shikhireva ^[7] , Jean-Claude Markade , Maurice Tukhman, Alexander Borovsky and others. Abstraction in Russia. Catalog of the exhibition at the State Russian Museum / Anna Laks. - St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2001 .-- 814 p. - (State Russian Museum (almanac)). - ISBN 5933320595 .
Anatoly Basin , Larisa Skobkina . Gazanevschina . - St. Petersburg: P.P.P., 2004 .-- 321 p. - (Vanguard on the Neva). - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5901724097 .

Notes

↑ Nikita Khrushchev, who visited this exhibition, spoke with Jackson Pollock about the painting “The Boy Pissed!” And promised to catch up with and overtake America, as well as “ show Kuzma’s mother .”
↑ Now Rothko ’s painting “Old Gold over White” ( “Old Gold over White”, an archived copy of September 4, 2014 on the Wayback Machine ) is stored in English. Neuberger Museum of Art , New York.
↑ As soon as the artist Alexander Petrovich Leonov played such a significant role in the fate of Borisov, we quote from the recollections of the early years of Leonov’s work with his words:
- It’s best to start with the fact that I’m the artist’s son and my childhood passed among the Suprematist paintings, my father P.V. Leonov , the main artist of the Dulevo plant . Then I studied at the Secondary School , then the Academy . Then I had to get rid of these academic skills. - Did you graduate from the academy?
- No, I was expelled for formalism from the second year. This very upset my relatives, but I was glad. Since 1959, I was already emerging as an artist with my own style of writing. In 1961, I made several drawings that revealed themselves to me as an artist.
- (published on the website of the Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center )
↑ “The artist Leonid Borisov died”, an obituary on Nikolay Kononikhin ’s website “Nikolay Gallery”, St. Petersburg.
↑
To give balance to the simplest construction, <...> two planks and air - and the thing works, lives, breathes. This is a great gift.
- Alexander Borovsky , head of the department of the latest trends of the State Russian Museum
↑ Hans-Peter Rize in the catalog of the exhibition Nonconformists. The Second Russian Avant-Garde ”(1996), p.92, mistakenly believes that Borisov was an engineer by the time he visited the American exhibition in Sokolniki. In the same place, nonconformist artist Alexander Leonov (born 1932, emigrated to France in 1977) was mistakenly called the “Leontiev”.
↑ Olga Shikhireva (Musakova), senior researcher at the painting department of the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries of the Russian Museum , member of the Union of Artists of Russia , associate professor of the Department of Cultural Studies and Art History of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (2009).

Links

Personal site of the artist
Artist page on Nikolay Gallery website
"I live - I see." 2007. A film of approx. 30 min. (artist tells)
Interview with Leonid Borisov to art critic Vadim Alekseev . Culture Internet Portal, October 15, 2003
Works and biography of Leonid Borisov on the site ART9.RU.

[1] Nikita Khrushchev, who visited this exhibition, spoke with Jackson Pollock about the painting “The Boy Pissed!” And promised to catch up with and overtake America, as well as “ show Kuzma’s mother .”

[2] Now Rothko ’s painting “Old Gold over White” ( “Old Gold over White”, an archived copy of September 4, 2014 on the Wayback Machine ) is stored in English. Neuberger Museum of Art , New York.

[3] As soon as the artist Alexander Petrovich Leonov played such a significant role in the fate of Borisov, we quote from the recollections of the early years of Leonov’s work with his words:
- It’s best to start with the fact that I’m the artist’s son and my childhood passed among the Suprematist paintings, my father P.V. Leonov , the main artist of the Dulevo plant . Then I studied at the Secondary School , then the Academy . Then I had to get rid of these academic skills. - Did you graduate from the academy?
- No, I was expelled for formalism from the second year. This very upset my relatives, but I was glad. Since 1959, I was already emerging as an artist with my own style of writing. In 1961, I made several drawings that revealed themselves to me as an artist.
- (published on the website of the Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center )

[4] “The artist Leonid Borisov died”, an obituary on Nikolay Kononikhin ’s website “Nikolay Gallery”, St. Petersburg.

[5] 
To give balance to the simplest construction, <...> two planks and air - and the thing works, lives, breathes. This is a great gift.
- Alexander Borovsky , head of the department of the latest trends of the State Russian Museum

[6] Hans-Peter Rize in the catalog of the exhibition Nonconformists. The Second Russian Avant-Garde ”(1996), p.92, mistakenly believes that Borisov was an engineer by the time he visited the American exhibition in Sokolniki. In the same place, nonconformist artist Alexander Leonov (born 1932, emigrated to France in 1977) was mistakenly called the “Leontiev”.

[7] Olga Shikhireva (Musakova), senior researcher at the painting department of the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries of the Russian Museum , member of the Union of Artists of Russia , associate professor of the Department of Cultural Studies and Art History of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (2009).