Frontinsky, Oleg Borisovich

All his life he lives on Vasilievsky Island , having survived the blockade as a child. He was engaged in painting in the art studio of the Palace of Pioneers under the direction of S. D. Levin (1949-1956). He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Academy of Arts (1956-1961, workshop of A. K. Barutchev ).

Among Frontinsky’s neighbors on Vasilievsky Island were poet Oleg Grigoryev and artist Vladimir Shagin , father of the founder of the Mitki group Dmitry Shagin . In the 1960s and 1970s, he was close to the artists of the group of Alexander Arefiev .

In 1962-1986 he worked at the LenNIIIProekt and the Leningrad Zonal Research and Design Institute for the typical and experimental design of residential and public buildings ( LenZNIIEP ). In parallel with architecture, he was engaged in graphics, and later in painting. Since 1970, he studied at the print studio of the Academy of Arts ^[1] . In 1970-1974, he performed about 40 lithographic landscapes of Leningrad in the lithographic workshop of the Academy of Arts ^[2] . In 1973 he was awarded the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for an experimental residential building. After his dismissal from LenNIIIProekt, he began to actively engage in painting.

The main genre is urban landscape . In addition to the artists of Arefiev’s circle, French Frontist modernism is influenced, and in the evolution of the painting style, there is a movement from “liberated color” and pasty style of writing to a greater laconicism of form and localization of color , “from pure picturesqueness towards drawing” ^[3] .

Frontinsky is a collector and popularizer of the work of artists of the Order of Unsold Painters ( Arefevsky circle) ^[4] .

Wife Julia Gorskaya - architect, artist. Son Vladimir Frontinsky is an icon painter.

His works are in the collections of the State Russian Museum , the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg , the Museum of Urban Sculpture of St. Petersburg , the Tsarskoye Selo Collection Museum , the Astrakhan Gallery , the Murmansk Regional Art Museum , the Museum of S. A. Yesenin and others, as well as in private collections in Russia, France, Germany, USA.

• Et al. with: N. G. Svarichevsky . Experimental residential building in Kupchino (1970, Budapest Street, 14, building 1, Prize of the USSR Council of Ministers in 1973 ^[5] ). Series 1Lg-602 V. A feature of the house is the diagonally centered stairs (system “D”) ^[6] .
• Et al. with: V.I. Tikhomirov and V.E. Zhukov. The “school-airplane” project ^[7] (1979, pos. Mozhaisky , individual project ^[8] ).
• According to his own testimony, he built 35 houses ^[9] .

Since 1985 has taken part in more than 150 exhibitions. Among them:

• exhibitions TEII ( Partnerships of Experimental Fine Arts) ;
• exhibitions of the group of artists " Mitki ";
• all exhibitions "Petersburg" in the Manege ^[10] ;
• "Painting. Graphics ”(2009, Museum of Non-Conformist Art , St. Petersburg) ^[11] ;
• “Summer has come to an end by all accounts” (2010, Gallery of Modern Art Arth. Object, St. Petersburg);
• "Dialogues". Together with Julia Gorskaya (2011, Novgorod City Exhibition Center “Dialogue”; 2014, exhibition hall of the Vyatka Art Museum ; 2014, KGallery, St. Petersburg);
• “Walking along Vasilyevsky” (2012, DiDi Art Gallery, St. Petersburg);
• “Vasilievsky Island” (2016, “Lived & Worked” Gallery, St. Petersburg);
• “Sport” (2016, Gallery of Modern Art, Art. Object, St. Petersburg);
• “The artist and his collection” (2017—2018, New Museum , St. Petersburg) ^[3] ;
• “Graphics of Oleg Frontinsky” (2018, Library of book graphics, St. Petersburg) ^[12] ;
• “That is the sun in the sky, then the moon” (2019, Blue living room of St. Petersburg CX ) ^[13] .

• Close-up: Personal exhibitions of artists of St. Petersburg: August 17 - September 9, 2007 / Committee on Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg; Central Exhibition Hall "Manege". - St. Petersburg: Tetra, 2007 .-- 35 p. - S. 5, 33.
• Oleg Frontinsky: Painting. Graphic arts. - St. Petersburg: Primrose, 2008 .-- 192 p. - ISBN 5-85976-165-1
• Frontinsky, O.B. Strokes to the portrait of Oleg Grigoryev // Heroes of the Leningrad culture 1950-1980 / Auth., Ed. L. A. Skobkina . - St. Petersburg: Central Exhibition Hall Manege, 2005 .-- S. 160—161.
• Frontinsky O. B. My friends are heroes of myths. - SPb., 2014 .-- 177 p. - ISBN 978-5-905942-63-1

• Frontinsky O. B. on the site "Art Tram" collector D. A. Zakharov.
• Frontinsky O.B. on citywalls.ru.
• The works of O. Frontinsky at art-spb.info.
• Oleg Frontinsky at OBTAZ arts.
• Frontinsky O.B. on the Vasilev Gallery website.
• Love and the Island: Oleg Borisovich Frontinsky // My house in my city. - 03/20/2018.
• Frontinsky O. Blockade taught to rejoice even grains of genuine values // Dog.ru. - 01/18/2018.