The St. Petersburg exhibition organizer, musician, graphic artist, painter Timur Novikov is remembered for his contribution to art. The artist founded the New Academy of Fine Arts. After his bright life, a huge legacy remained.
Few know how much the painter has done for Russian culture. Timur Petrovich was born in Leningrad on September 24, 1958.
Becoming a painter
From school, the boy began attending a drawing circle. The works of the nine-year-old painter were exhibited at his debut exhibition of children's drawings in New Delhi, at ten Timur moved to the Far North for four years.
The nature of this corner made a tremendous impression on the boy. All emotions were reflected in his perception of the surrounding reality. In 1973 Novikov entered the Club of Young Art Critics, created at the Russian Museum. He chose art education, studied paint and varnish technology at the college.
In 1876 Timur joined the Hermitage Club of Young Art Lovers. Work began on the first paintings. Together with Oleg Kotelnikov, he created the Monsters tandem. In 1977 the painter joined the avant-garde association "Chronicle" by Boris Koshelokhov.
The first home exhibition took place. Since 1978, the implementation of the curatorial project began. Timur rented a room and set up workshops there. From the beginning of June, he began to supervise his own apartment exhibition of the work of young artists.
A couple of years later, Novikov teamed up with Kotelnikov for a joint gallery "Assa". It existed until 1987. Since 1981 Timur entered the society of informal artists. In 2014, the film "Zero-Object" was shot about the painter with the inclusion of iconic fragments of his biography.
In 1982, Timur organized the New Artists group, which worked in a style close to the new directions of romanticism and figurativeness. The main goal was to expand the existing standards. Viktor Tsoi was also among the participants.
The popularity of the group grew rapidly, several actions were held together with the famous Andy Warhol.
The flowering of creativity
In 1983 Novikov collaborated with Kuryokhin's Popular Mechanics. Since 1985, he began to work as an organizer of concerts of the then young group "Kino". Timur took on the serious role of a graphic designer to create a unique atmosphere for his performances. In 1987 he invited the fashion designer Goncharov to work on the stage images of the musicians.
At the same time, the "New Artists" staged the performances "Anna Karenina", "The Idiot", and "Ballet of the Three Lovebirds" based on Kharms. The organization has also realized itself in the cinema. They developed the styles of parallel cinema and necrorealiam. Many experiments have been successful.
The participants founded new criticism, literature, invented original musical instruments. Their authorship belongs to the iron. In 1987 Novikov took part in the painting "Assa". He starred in the tape and worked as a production designer. Novikov was awarded a prize for his design contribution to cinema.
Timur Petrovich became one of the first domestic media artists. As a director, he directed the films "The Golden Section" and "The Nightmare of Modernism", took part in the work on "Two Captains-2". Novikov founded the Gagarin Party at VDNKh. Since the winter of 1988, Timur Petrovich started teaching at the Free University.
In 1990 there was an exhibition "Territory of Art" with a demonstration of the panel "New York at night". Dunya Smirnova organized the exhibition "Youth and Beauty in Art". In the summer of 1990, together with his colleagues, Novikov participated in the First Exhibition at the Palace Bridge. All works are kept in the museum of the same name.
The next year, at the Second Headquarters, the panel “Fighters” was demonstrated. Often, pictorial effects were enhanced with the help of neoclassicism. Classical performances got along well with the brilliance of the nineties.
New Horizons
From the end of the eighties Novikov left painting. He switched to textile collage. With the help of minimal stencils, the maximum simplicity of work was achieved. After the plane splitting, only a small symbol was installed. The work turned out to be abstract in its depth.
Novikov's series "Horizons" gained wide popularity. Her motives are used to decorate clothes, for example, sweatshirts. Later in the Russian Museum were inserted "Narcissus", "Apollo trampling on the red square". Since that time, Timur Petrovich began to actively use postcards and photographs in his works.
Increasingly, Greek gods appeared in works as symbols of the liveliness of art. The neoacademists united under the auspices of the New Academy of Fine Arts in 1993. In NAII there were insertions of teachers and students of the new organization.
Since 1995 Novikov has lived in Berlin. He organized the exhibition "The Decline of German Romanticism". In 1997, after returning to Russia, a neoacadamism festival was held in the Pavlovsk Palace. The formation of classrooms was planned in the Mikhailovsky Castle.
Timur Petrovich was involved in the creation of the European Society of Classical Aesthetics with the assistance of Professor Zaitsev. In 1998, the painter founded the Institute for the History of Contemporary Art and the Artistic Will organization. A newspaper of the same name was established with the Susanin magazine.
The artist promoted the need to restore the reputation of the cultural capital for St. Petersburg. The publishing activity of the master started in the nineties. As a result of illness after 1997, the artist lost his sight. He did not leave the leadership of the New Academy, giving lectures.
Novikov hosted the radio program "New Academy", contributing to the popularization of classical music. The painter donated part of the art collection to the Russian Museum and the Hermitage. The master took part in the Belgian exhibition Between Heaven and Earth, dedicated to neoclassical tendencies. The famous painter passed away on May 23, 2003.
