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Kolobovnikov Vadim Alekseevich.
Born in 1973 in the city of Lipetsk.
In 1997, he graduated from the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Lipetsk State Pedagogical Institute.
Member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 2008.
Participant of 25 national and regional exhibitions (10 of them are solo).
His works are in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Since 2005, he has been actively collaborating with renowned galleries in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
The artist considers landscape to be the main genre of his work.
“Nature is an inexhaustible source of my inspiration. To depict its essence, to strive to convey on canvas all the vividness and pulsation of the world, is my ultimate—task, unattainable and continuous."
"Mayakovsky is walking towards them along the path"
(Article: VK-202551-607)
"I am the happiest person in the world"
(Article: VK-202546-607)
Contemporary viewers accustomed to the most intricate forms of individuality expect something deliberately provocative from their initial impression of the artist. But even the most sophisticated admirer of beauty will dare to take a look (at least a furtive one) at its creator.
Nowadays, the creator looks like this – thin, tall, wearing jeans, and with long carroty (!) dreadlocks. Plus a stormy temperament, an unbelievably positive reaction to the world, and an emotional perpetuum mobile. So, here he is – meet Vadim Kolobovnikov. He is a young artist and a vivid figure in Lipetsk’s art scene.
Vadim was born (we simply cannot omit this information!) on April 24, 1973, and studied at Lipetsk State Pedagogical University at the Faculty of Art. Vadim carried out his first art projects in (sorry) St. Petersburg and Moscow. The poisonous influence of these two megacities affected him, and Vadim did not become a “Lipetsk artist” proper, but nevertheless, he still continues to evolve as an artist...
The initial and most important impression of Vadim and his works is emotional.
Even his name conveys certain emotional characteristics – the “high-speed” energy of images, volcanic power of color, flash, blast, drive. Suddenly, we are in the eye of a tornado (but the one which bears a melodious feminine name).
We need to take a break, and then, some time later, we’ll hear a distinctive melody of the artist – sincere, awakening reminiscences, and unexpectedly penetrating.
Kolobovnikov doesn’t usually engage in rhetorical detailing of visual images – he trusts his viewer too much to do that. The viewer doesn’t need any commentaries at all (even those provided by the artist). By the way, the artist prefers to remain silent.
On the whole, all Vadim’s works are positive: the world is saved and it is gorgeous, nature is alive, people are not lonely, and the sky is amazing. Vadim shows us a world that has been changed by the power of his creativity, and that means the world has been created once again.
Buffon once remarked that “The style is the man himself.” In the epoch of fading postmodernism, the issue of style puzzles everyone except maybe infants. Indeed, an artist has a personality, which means they have a certain style. It is obvious that the development of all forms of art depends on the choices artists make. So, who are Vadim Kolobovnikov’s “guiding stars”?
Among the great artists – Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pavel Filonov. Perhaps due to their influence on Vadim, his landscape paintings are subtly yet tangibly expressive and epic. In his works, Vadim strives to achieve hieratic statics; he wishes to efface tentative boundaries between figurative and non-figurative.
Among the people who surround the artist – Vladimir Basinsky, Vladimir Zlobin (both were Kolobovnikov’s teachers), and Lidiya Skargina. From Basinsky, Vadim learned to analyze the painterly surface; from Zlobin, he learned the importance of freedom which is (alas!) impossible to convey even by means of art and even in close contact; and from Skargina, the artist learned to get rid of everything that is not essential.
Vadim himself is very sincere; he possesses a special impetuosity of artistic vision and a gift for graphical interpretation of pictorial art.
Kolobovnikov’s art is undoubtedly very emotional. However, this emotional sensitivity is not only a part of his character but an inherent quality of his artistic perception.
Even a person who is not interested in modern art cannot fail to notice the special musicality of Vadim’s compositional thinking. The nature of pictorial language is determined by a rhythmical basis. Color as a “sounding” element of artistic perception of the plastic cosmos is the very core of Vadim’s personality as an artist.
Kolobovnikov’s predilections as a colourist are quite obvious to an observant viewer. The “passionarity” of colors in his pictures makes you think of some sort of “color therapy.”
Kolobovnikov’s art is not autistic. The artist’s interest in viewers’ empathy manifests itself in the cropping that Vadim uses so frequently (halloo, Degas!), and in the almost accidental absence of people in his landscape paintings (is human presence worth it – after Munch?). Maybe this is the reason why we can feel something human in Vadim’s non-figurative compositions?..
“There's no progress in art.” No use arguing with Pablo Picasso, because he just states an obvious fact. But why should creative people care about this? In Vadim Kolobovnikov’s art, we can feel the belief in the possibility of dialogue with people who are not indifferent. In this case, the commonness of our world is not an obstacle but, on the contrary, a chance for salvation… Brodsky’s words come to mind, “Despite all its orphancy, poetry is based on the sameness of monotonous days which go by.”
Svetlana Nikova
Andrey Lomonosov
LIST OF EXHIBITIONS:
1. Regional Youth Exhibition 2001
2. The 2001 Regional Exhibition
3. Moscow exhibition “Lipchane - Muscovites" (MoscowKashirskoe) 2001
4. All-Russian Youth Exhibition in Moscow, Central House of Artists (from 26.11.01 to 14.01.02)
5. Regional exhibition “60 years of the Great Victory" 2005
6. Regional exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Artist 2005
7. Exhibition in Voronezh of the Lipetsk Agricultural Academy in 2005
8. Exhibition (personal) in Moscow 2006. EXPO - 88 Gallery
9. Regional exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Artist 2006
10. Personal exhibition (Lipetsk region exhibition hall) 2007
11. VIII International Exhibition “Dialogues" (Biennale) (St. Petersburg) 2007
12. Personal exhibition (gallery “M'ART”, Lipetsk) 2007
13. Regional exhibition dedicated to the Day of the Artist 2008
14. Regional Exhibition (Yaroslavl) 2008
15. All-Russian Youth Exhibition (Saratov) 2008
16. Regional Portrait Exhibition (Regional Exhibition Hall) 2008
17. Regional exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Union of Artists of Russia - Lipetsk, 2008
18. Regional High School dedicated to Artist's Day 2009
19. Persons. Exhibition in the Lipetsk Regional art gallery "The Edge of the world" 2010
20. Regional High School dedicated to Artist's Day 2011
21. Persons. exhibition (Bolkonsky Gallery, Lipetsk) 2013
22. Collection exhibition at the Nefta Gallery, Voronezh, 2013
23. Lipetsk Regional Exhibition 2013
24. Regional High School dedicated to Artist's Day 2014
25. Exhibition of Lipetsk artists in Moscow, 2015
26. Personal Exhibition (Lipetsk, region exhibition hall) "Open spaces" 2015
27. Regional exhibition "The exhibition is open." Artist's Day 2016
28. Joint exhibition (Skargina L.V. and Kolobovnikov V. A.) "Under one Sun" TNK Art Gallery, Moscow, 2016
29. Collective exhibition of lime tree artists (Moscow, Dacha Gallery) 2016
30. Regional exhibition "Prokhorov field". Belgorod 2016
31. International exhibition-competition "Week of Arts" Lipetsk 2016
32. Personal exhibition in the shopping and entertainment center "Europe" Lipetsk, 2016
33. All-Russian exhibition "Faces of Russia", Arkhangelsk, 2016
34. Personal exhibition. G. Chaplygin. 2016
35. Regional High School dedicated to Artist's Day 2017
36. Exhibition of Lipetsk artists. Ryazan 2017
37. Regional exhibition. Belgorod 2017
38. Exhibition of Lipetsk artists. Voronezh 2017
39. Personal exhibition at the Art School 2 Lipetsk 2017
40. Regional exhibition dedicated to Artist's Day 2018
41. 4th interregional exhibition in Belgorod. "Prokhorov field". 2018
42. Regional Youth Exhibition in Lipetsk 2018
43. Republican exhibition in Orel. 2018
44. Exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Lipetsk KHGF. 2018
45. All-Russian exhibition "Image of the Motherland" - 4 dedications. The 200th anniversary of the birth of I. S. Turgenev. The city of Orel. 2018
46. 12th interregional exhibition of the central regions of Russia. Lipetsk. 2018
47. Regional exhibition dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Lipetsk region. 2019
48. XIII All-Russian hood. Exhibition "Russia XIII". Moscow, Central House of Artists. 2019
49. Exhibition of Lipetsk artists "Lipetsk. Seven" in Vladimir. IZO Propaganda Center. 2019
50. Interregional exhibition "Dedication to Deineka". Exhibition hall of the KTC "Zvezdny". Kursk. 2019
51. Personal exhibition in the Concert Hall "Union". Lipetsk. 2019
52. Hare Island. The Smelt restaurant, St. Petersburg, September 2021 - April 2022
53. Library of the Kirov Islands, St. Petersburg, "New Islands" - October 2022
54. Isaac Schwartz Memorial House Museum, St. Petersburg, "Forty degrees of Heat", March - May 2022
55. Isaac Schwartz Memorial House Museum, St. Petersburg, "Dream City", May - June 2022
56. Art Russian Design Fest, part 2. "Autumn". Moscow, 2022
57. List Library. The Shushary. 2022
58. Library of the Kirov Islands. St. Petersburg. "We can hear each other." 2023
59. Moscow. Central Exhibition Hall Manege. III Week of Interior and Design. Oct. 2023
60. CX SPb. "Autumn 2024"
61. CX SPb. "Spring 2025"
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