Yankilevsky Vladimir

1938

By a stroke of fate, Vladimir Yankilevsky entered the community of nonconformist artists as soon as he graduated from the Polygraph Institute in 1962. This very same year he was to take part in the famous exhibitions, which were to define his future artistic career: at Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya Street and the Moscow Union of Artists 30th Anniversary exhibition at Manege; he exhibited his works together with the members of Elia Belutin’s studio. Yankilevsky’s style was formed under the influence of such events of Moscow cultural life of the 1960s, as the show of Pablo Picasso’s art, semiofficial jazz concerts and experimental works by Dmitry Shostakovich. His long artistic quest resulted in the ideas of the breach of illusionary space and the simultaneity of different conditions. He developed his inimitable artistic method, marrying surrealism with new realist imagery. The artist also elaborated his invariable triptych composition, where the universe is perceived through the union of male and female principles.

Nina Lavrishcheva