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"Iskusstvo"
"Zapechatlennoje vremya. Tak nazval svoju vystavky Ivan Loukianov"
("Rendered Time" - This is How Ivan Loukianov Called His Exhibition")
N2(242), January 16-31, 2002
Among the best
recent works I would name pictorial compositions - subtle
ornamental and rhythmic stylizations of European landscape
themes. These paintings are obviously based on personal impressions
that incarnate live landscape themes each shown through the
prism of an artist's memory of his own country art. Such are
the reflections about Vermeer in the "France Hals Street"
landscape.
Ivan
Loukianov has fully mastered many graphics and painting techniques
as well as various compositional expression methods. He is
by all means an artist who has an impeccable taste. He's facing
substantial goals, and he is sure to produce significant works
of art.
V.
Petrov Stromsky
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newspaer"Dekorativnoe iskusstvo"
"Zapechatlennoje vremya Ivana Loukianova"
"Ivan Loukianov's Rendered Time"
N 4, 2001
One
may consider Loukianov's lithographs as free compositions
based on the themes of great works. The artist's position
is reflected in his modesty, independence and honesty (we
should note that at his personal exhibition in Prague, the
capital of graphical art, a professor of The Prague Academy
of Art said he had never seen such books since 1930). The
artist's success lies in the exceptional expressiveness of
his characters that at the same time greatly appeal by their
dynamics. "Tsarskaya Duma" ("The Tzar's Duma") leaves a funny
impression of a collage in the traditions of Russian print
which at the same time can be regarded as a Russian epic,
a folk song or even Russian church frescos of the times when
a colorful palette reflected the vivid picture of the world
that existed in the minds of people. It is perhaps this spirit
that characterizes the style of his illustrations.
Judging
by his exhibition, Loukianov is mastering the language of
the Russian icon that represents an aesthetic system of expressive
composition techniques bound with a distinct meaning. One
can feel the artist is interested in the inner world of the
icon and is eager to understand it from the modern point of
view. This opens great possibilities and perspectives for
any artist. "UNOR" Prague-9, February 9-27, 1998. Ivan Loukianov's
exhibition. Ivan Loukianov is an artist who works with printing
graphics and designs books. His talent is reflected by his
ability to show ancient things in modern style. He is capable
of bringing the shape and the substance of a book in one whole
unit.
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newspaer "Pervoe sentyabrya"
"Natyrmort vremeni"
("Still-Life of Time")
N1(1077) 2002
Rendered Time, that was the name of Ivan Loukianov's
personal exhibition. He is a painter who reaches his audience
following the belief "If you live an honest life and love
your work, people will always need your paintings, the mirror
for pure human feelings."
I felt the need to express my feelings on
a canvas. To organize an exhibition space with Time being
a border beyond which eternal human values require no explanation.
I wanted my "Rendered Time" to be continuous
on the one hand and frozen on the other, to create a kind
of a still-life with Time. The exhibition itself is momentary
after all. It lasted only some three days, and it had taken
12 years to create the exhibited works. And it has some
special meaning, too. It seems to me, that the miracle of
art is the miracle of catching the hold of time. A painting
lets the artist live a moment of his life as many times
as he wants.
Natalia
Afanasyeva
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newspaer
"Voskresnaya Shkola"
"Dar otvetstvennosti"
('The Gift of Responsibility")
N 11(227) 2002
Ivan
Loukianov works in different genres; his interests are vast
- painting, print, monotypy, collage, etc.
He
is a refined graphic artist created a series of masterpieces,
he also works on book design.
I
don't know who can be considered as a venerable artist -
this can be both an artist who is luckily well known to
public and someone who has achieved a lot in his creative
work but is not yet well known. The second is more preferable.
Ivan
Loukianov's paintings reflect different themes. Tiny neat
Dutch houses are painted on a small canvas filled up with
orange light, all this combined with an irreproachable,
even dryish composition... But the light on the roofs of
the houses is such good and warm and tasty like an orange
that your sole (not even your mind) becomes full of it,
warms up and you want to step inside this silent space of
the painting that reminds of childhood and warm summer days…
Flowers, wonderful flowers - and if you can say this about
flowers - such original and distinctive!.. Winter landscapes…
sea, … fishermen
Valentina
Moreva
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journal
"Megapoli"
"My zavisim ot sveta"
("We All Depend on the Light")
N 3, March 2002
He
is 32 years old and has many diplomas, he participated in
many international exhibitions, biennales. His works can
be found in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts n Moscow, in
Pushkin's Memorial Home in St Petersburg, in the Museum
of Tsarskoe Selo, in the State Exlibris Museum as well as
in private collections in Russia, Czeck Republic, Poland,
Yugoslavia, Holland, Canada, USA, Germany, Spain. He has
many interests - graphics art, painting, printing design,
monumental works.
He
is a unique graphic artist who created wonderful masterpieces;
he also works on book design. The book that he designed
for Eldar Ryazanov is a true work of art. He possesses this
unique quality to be able to build a book as one architectural
ensemble.
There
are artists who can spend their whole lives working on a
single painting, and there are great artists. Ivan Loukianov's
paintings are all different; each has its own tension. One
would shine with expressiveness, the other would be a demonstration
of decorative art at its best. He combines incompatible
things - simplicity and refinement. His works are impeccable
compositions and an outstanding color harmony.
Valentina
Moreva
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newspaer
"Chekhia segodnya"
Hudozhniki iz Rossii v Galleree 9 na Vysochanah"
("Russian Painters in Gallery 9 at Vysochanah")
N November 1998
A
young artist, a Moscow State Academy of Printing graduate,
was invited to Prague to show his illustrations to Pushkin's
"Boris Godunov.
The
lithographic illustrations and the text of Pushkin's tragedy
act as a single whole which attributes to Ivan Loukianov's
high professionalism when particular technical problems
are easily solved without restraining the artist's creativity.
A rare artist possesses such a composite thinking, such
a unique skill to build the book as one piece.
Among
many works that one can find in "Russian Galleries" in
Prague, Ivan Lukianov's stand out as criteria in artistry
and professionalism…they are the works that should represent
Russian Art.
Konstantin
Ilyashevsky, Culture Science Department Head,
Prague Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law
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journal"Flayer
Ultra"
"Iskusstvo zhit' iskusstvom" (The Art of Living with Art")
N 10 October 2003
Producer Loukianov was a childhood dream.
Painter Loukianov is today. He manages to have both a
realistic and at the same time cynical view of life remaining
a romantic person who is driven crazy by the atmosphere
of the old Prague.
Inna
Aleynikova
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