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September 17, 2012

Sliding graphics


Author of the official logo of Kaznet - Kostanay artist Yuri Novoselov - introduced different facets of his talent in the solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition includes 94 works in various genres, techniques and directions: posters, book plates, and even a kind of installation. For example, the pink "poster" with an intriguing window, as if washed in the paint, and the caption: "Look in the good eye." Coming closer, you find out that the mirror-box.

The exhibition is timed to the 60th anniversary of the artist. Yuri Novoselov preparing for it for years and presented to the public the best in 35 years. This creates an interesting effect. It seems that he could not one and the same person to create all this social advertising, sometimes showing very aggressive (especially placards against corruption and for contraception), and quiet, cozy, mysterious prints, bookplates in the techniques of etching and aquatint.


Apparently, it's because bookplates (book marks, that owners mark their books to not pilfered friends) is a kind of hobby Yuri Novoselov. A graphical ads and posters - work and citizenship.

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