Winterthur | Switzerland

 

BULATOV Eric


Information

  • Russian painter and photorealist, one of the founders of the Sots-art.
  • Bulatov studied painting at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, graduating in 1958.
  • He began working as a children’s book illustrator with friend and collaborator, Oleg Vassiliev for which he won numerous awards.
  • In 1957 exhibitions in Moscow began and in 1973 abroad.
  • Through the Sretensky Boulevard Group, Bulatov became a prominent member of the loosely affiliated Moscow Conceptualists. This group, related ideologically rather than stylistically, has defined the “Moscow School” of contemporary Russian art as it is known today.
  • Bulatov became known due to the creative method of facing a poster text, chopped out of the context of Soviet reality, with a figurative (mostly landscape) component.
  • As a result, the artist manages extremely affordable way to illustrate the absurdity of Soviet propaganda reality.
  • Bulatov’s work is constantly represented on exhibitions around the world and Bulatov is one of the most expensive contemporary Russian artists.


Exhibitions

  • i.a. ARNDT Berlin


Kontakt / Bilder

http://www.artnet.com/artists/erik-bulatov-2/
http://art4.ru/ru/artists/detail.php?ID=357
http://www.chaskor.ru/article/erik_bulatov_u_menya_ochen_schastlivaya_zhizn_14621