Chair
Chair
Chair and Mrone
Chair/MRONE/Stop One/Fillart/DMA – Crosspoint exhibition
Chair
Chair/MRONE/Stop One/Fillart/DMA – Crosspoint exhibition
Chair
Chair/MRONE/Stop One/Fillart/DMA – Crosspoint exhibition
Chair
Chair
Chair Mrone Stopone Fillart Dma - Crosspoint exhibit
When i looked at the work of Russian Artist Chair i was immediately drawn to the black and white style and the contrast it had against the color in the background or in the canvases with protruding shapes of color in 3d. Also looking at his symbol of a chair it automatically brings me back to the early nineties of San Francisco when you couldn’t go far without seeing the numerous icons that graffiti artists pushed on the streets Whether is was Twists Screw or Rem’s horses, Chair brings back that nostalgic feel to me. Here is a quick Bio from the Artist and his work.
Chair (N.Novgorod, Russia)
Firstly I took an image of a chair from my sketches and formed it into black and white geometric forms. I spend some time putting that crooked, in good sense of this word, chairs on the walls made of old red bricks. Why chairs and why only on red bricks? For me a chair is a key to every contemporary art, for example, ask a designer, a painter, a poet or a novelist about the role of a chair in their life. Oh, it would be interesting to listen to different stories, so that my own opinion won’t be as interesting as their. Red old bricks are all over the place. In Russia there are so many old brick houses, where usual graffiti artists can’t imagine their works, and I can’t explain why a chair is so sweet on such a wall than on another one. Also I painted some armchairs as another state of chairs. To not pay attention to my new name I chose it as primitive as possible – Chair.
Then I started painting a compositions with chairs (inspired by cubism, avantgardism and suprematism) – the typical structure of compositions includes symmetry, two chairs or a chair and an armchair and, as a main object of compositions, some things that associated with my own experience or reactions on happenings (like a horse from chess game or a violin) and a masonic all seeing eye. Such a structure of making a work gave me a lot of freedom in painting.
Now I’m off the composition just because I don’t feel doing them any more. But I’m still making graphic works that were born with the help of compositions.
I’m also trying to work with different people instead of painting alone. I was influenced mostly by abstract painters as Malevich, Picasso and Jan-Michel Basquiat., graffiti artist as Sickboy, Burning Candy Crew, 45rpm, Remed, Grems and Tosco., and musical bands like Animal Collective and Dead Can Dance.
Anyway, when people ask me questions like “Why are you putting that god damn chairs on the wall?” – I tell them “All answers are in the questions, so don’t bother yourself”
Chair Links
http://chair-smart.blogspot.com/ – Chair’s blog
http://streetfiles.org/chair – Streetfiles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chairock/ – Flickr
http://www.crosspoint2010.ru/ – CROSSPOINT exhibition
