July 11, 2024 – August 11, 2024
The artistic influences of Vladislav Razgulin should be sought among the modernist movements of early 20th-century painting. His work is genetically close, firstly, to French Fauvism and, secondly, to German Expressionism; however, it is more whimsical than the former and much more joyful than the latter. Dazzling color, simplicity of form, and contrast – Razgulin constructs his paintings from colored planes that are wisely and economically laid out on the canvas. Despite the apparent naivety, the artist consciously amplifies the viewer’s emotions.
Razgulin’s favorite subject is the southern landscape: winding streets, sea horizons, steep staircases, white walls, and blooming trees. The southern landscape gradually becomes the main motif of his work, and it lacks monotony. Razgulin’s canvases, painted with the colors of the sun, sea, and wind, are a collection of diverse delights, transformed into painting.
The In artibus Foundation closely follows Vladislav Razgulin’s work. In 2015, with the support of the foundation, his paintings were shown at the Hermitage-Vyborg Exhibition Center. In 2018, In artibus co-organized an exhibition for the artist’s 50th anniversary at the Moscow club “Pereletny Kabak.” In 2021, a large retrospective of Razgulin’s work was displayed at the foundation’s space in Kursovoy Lane, and in 2023, with the support of In artibus, a solo exhibition of the artist was held at the Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum.
