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Belenok Petr |
| “Detailed observations of the everyday person do not interest me; I observe the world and its problems from a neutral position in outer space.” |
1938 - 1991 |
Petr Ivanovich Belenok has a special place in the alternative avant-garde culture of the 1960's as the acclaimed pioneer of photorealistic strategies. His discoveries first appeared almost at the same time as European photorealism and hyperrealism of the post-war American school came into existence. In jest, he called his own artistic system 'panic realism' as his compositions were brimming with countless human figures escaping and flying. They inhabit cosmic spaces, pursued by phantoms, Medusa-like plasmas, multiplying like clowns in a fantasy film.
'During the last few years spent in Moscow, the paintings of Petr Belenok gradually pushed aside those of other artists. The paintings mainly depicted a modern view of a man, overtaken by unknown cataclysms. Men are running, escaping, above them plates or rings are being torn apart, sometimes it is molten rock, magma, an extraterrial substance, part of a firmament cleaved apart', from the memoirs of E. Limonov 'Moscow Bohemia' | |
The artist's work can be found in the following museums and collections: | | | Contemporary Art Museum | Phenomenon Kolodzei Art Foundation |
Museums in Russia
- The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
- The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
- The Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
Museums overseas:
- Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, USA
- Kolodzei Art Foundation, Highland Park, New Jersey, USA
Private collections:
- Evgeny Nutovich Collection, Moscow
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