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1938, Moscow, USSR — 2018, Paris, France

Triptych No 14. Self-Portrait. (Dedicated to My Father)

Object. 1987


Despite the significance of Vladimir Yankilevsky in the hierarchy of modern art, it is not easy to submit his figure to any definite classification. In Triptych No. 14. Self-Portrait (Memory of the Artist’s Father), the artist introduces an assemblage similar to a round sculpture into the form of the triptych. As is always the case with the artist, this form-creative moment carries its own figurative onus. The «literary» interpretation — a breakthrough to new spiritual horizons — can be added in brackets. Yankilevsky’s three-dimensionality implies the complex dialectics of energy — time and unbroken concepts ensuring the process of form-creation (not necessarily ending with the «materialisation» of a concrete work and, in the artist’s unpredictable and inevitable case, recalling geological processes). Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 364.


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