Artist Victor Korneev

Artist Victor Korneev
 

Participant of more than 40 group and more than 15 personal exhibitions. His works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Museum of Modern art and private collections in Russia, Germany, Holland, China, Norway, France, Sweden, etc.

Curriculum

Viktor Ivanovich Korneev (born 1958) belongs to a generation of authors whose appearance on the art scene coincided with radical changes in art in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
High professionalism, a heightened sense of plasticity and intelligible articulation in the arrangement of semantic and spatial accents give every reason to consider Korneev one of the most interesting today's sculptors. Never losing touch with the neoclassical tradition of European plastic art of the twentieth century, but assimilating the aesthetics of postmodernism, he enters into a dialogue with many predecessors, among whom he most values ​​Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Giacomo Manza, Marino Marini, and also René Magritte. However, V. Korneev often appeals to the most different eras and cultures. According to the artist himself, many of his works, both easel and monumental, arose from “nostalgia for the lost harmony of primitiveness, for the beautiful, kindness and beauty of human relations”.

V.Korneev went through a serious professional school, first in the famous for its traditions Penza Art School named after V.I. K.A.Savitsky, then at the Moscow State Art-Industrial School (now MGHPA named after S.G. Stroganov), where he studied in the studio of Academician A.N.Burganov. After graduating from high school in 1991, the artist quickly acquired his own style and today is rightfully included in the circle of creators that define the atmosphere of artistic Moscow.

The master's works were included in such large projects as "Contemporary Russian Sculptors" (2012). Over the past 20 years, Korneev has repeatedly held solo exhibitions in Russia, the Netherlands, France and Sweden, of which two of the largest were held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2010) and the Tretyakov Gallery (2011). The sculptor's works are kept in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Moscow Burganov House State Museum, the M'ars Gallery, as well as in regional museums: in Barnaul, Penza, Tolyatti, Yaroslavl. A lot of Korneev's works are in private collections in Russia and abroad: in Germany, Holland, China, Norway, France, Sweden. A number of compositions in granite are installed in parks, streets and squares of cities in China and Sweden.

The main features of Korneev's poetics were formed quite early and have remained unchanged for many years. Among them, the desire for laconic forms, generalization, a significant degree of conventionality, as well as a penchant for the grotesque, which, nevertheless, does not contradict a certain romanticization. The gift of a monumentalist inherent in the sculptor found expression in works for urban spaces, but it is also noticeable in the easel compositions displayed in the halls of the Academy.

The monumentality inherent even in V. Korneev's small works allows them to withstand the increase to the scale of landscape objects. It is no coincidence that in recent years the artist has been paying particular attention to sculpture in the open air. In an open space, his works "live" naturally and organically, the architectonics of their volumes are impeccable.
The artist is characterized by fidelity to nature and reality: he works a lot and consistently with nude, and all his works are based on a deep knowledge of the "architecture of the object".
However, Korneev's work is rather a symbiosis of reality and metaphysics, figurative authenticity and paradoxes of figurativeness, strict constructiveness and expression.