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Vladimir Tryamkin
born in 1952 in the village Peski, Moscow region, Russia
Vladimir Tryamkin was born in 1952 in the village of Peski, Moscow Oblast. He studied in the studio of Tatyana Khvostenko. Since 1977 the non-conformist artist has participated regularly in art exhibitions in Russia and abroad. He has worked and exhibited with artists such as Anatoly Zverev and Leonid Purygin, as well as many others. In the 1991 international exhibition Kunst. Europa, Tryamkin showed his works alongside Russian conceptual artists Ilya Kabakov, Dmitry Pirogov, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, Dmitry Vrubel, and Sergey Volkhov. This exhibition did much to sustain Europe's interest in unofficial Russian art. Tryamkin's works can be found in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), the Sandretto Foundation (Italy), and many institutional and private collections in Russia, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, and Japan.
Tryamkin's art is its own breed of laboratory in which he was always experimenting. Raised in the Soviet era of tolerated innovation, Tryamkin employed the potentially available styles and techniques, experimenting and developing each one as he moved forward. The artist intently studied all the approaches of 20th century art, from abstraction to conceptualism. The genesis of his art goes back to the famous Fayum mummy portraits, and from his mentor Khvostenko he adopted the forgotten recipe for encaustic painting, using melted wax. Tryamkin mixed paint with gasoline, turpentine, and sand. He created articles from burdock, thinly cut strips of newspaper ads, fire hoses, and plumbing pipes. His pieces are wooden and steel objects; sheets of metal cut in the style of Lucio Fontana, perforated by nails, and roughly sewn back together; black-and-white expressions à la Franz Klein; and colored ones à la Jackson Pollack. This gives you a taste of the endless cascade of ideas and techniques.
For Tryamkin, the world is color and structure, expressed in symbols capable of transmitting feelings and philosophical concepts that are inexpressible in words. The artist was not afraid to balance on the threshold of decorativeness as well. He created objects and structures that are distinct in their harsh expressiveness, outside of emotion, which originates largely from the choice of material. The artist used "concrete structures" and units, thus fully exiting the illusory space of painting, abstract painting included. The figurative and non-figurative aspects of his work comprise a unified, living space that freely changes form, shifting to levels of real and non-real scenarios of being.
Solo Exhibitions:
2021 — Materials — PA Gallery, Moscow
2018 — VLADIMIR TRYAMKIN. 1952 - 2017 — Siberia Gallery, Moscow
2011 — Vostochnaya Gallery, Moscow
2009 — IMAGE CATCHER — Na Chistih Prudah Gallery, Moscow
2009 — IMAGINARIUMS. VLADIMIR TRYAMKIN. PAINTINGS, GRAPHICS, OBJECT — Sovcom Gallery, Moscow
2006 — Vostochnaya Gallery, Moscow
1997 — Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
1989 — Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
1989 — DITTMAR Gallery, Hamburg, West Germany
1988 — CDL (Central House of Writers), Moscow
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 — 3 х 5 —PA Gallery, Moscow
2022 — Silence Mode — PA Gallery, Moscow
2014 — ARE YOU READY TO FLY? — MMOMA, Moscow
2013 — HOW ARE YOU? — Vostochnaya Gallery, Moscow
2011 — ONE WEEK PRIOR TO FLIGHT — Leonid Shishkin Gallery, Moscow
2009 — HEAVENLY AFFAIRS — А3 Gallery, Moscow
2009 — SUBURBS — Special project of MMOMA for the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2008 — UNOFFICIAL ART — Daev 33 Gallery, Moscow
2004 — ART-MOSCOW — Vostochnaya Gallery, CDH (Central House of Artists), Moscow
2000 — Yuzhniy Krest Gallery. Na Kashirke Hall. Moscow
1995 — 12 ARTISTS FROM MOSCOW — Russian House of Science and Culture, Berlin, Germany
1995 — MOSCOW ARTISTS. 1974 - 1994 — Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1994 — SIGN AND SYMBOL — Central House of Architect, Moscow
1993 — Galerie Clara Maria Sels. Dusseldorf, Germany
1991 — Cooling Gallery. London, UK
1991 — CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TO MALEVICH — The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1991 — KUNST EUROPA — Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
1991 — TOKYO ART-EXPO — International art fair, Tokyo, Japan
1990 — ART HAMBURG — International art fair. Hamburg, West Germany
1990 — ABS — Expocentre, Moscow
1988-1989 — LABYRINTH — Moscow Palace of Youth. Moscow – Hamburg, West Germany
1987 — NEW CHAMBER ART — Soviet Culture Fund, Moscow
1977-1982 — City Committee of Graphic Artist, Moscow
Tryamkin's art is its own breed of laboratory in which he was always experimenting. Raised in the Soviet era of tolerated innovation, Tryamkin employed the potentially available styles and techniques, experimenting and developing each one as he moved forward. The artist intently studied all the approaches of 20th century art, from abstraction to conceptualism. The genesis of his art goes back to the famous Fayum mummy portraits, and from his mentor Khvostenko he adopted the forgotten recipe for encaustic painting, using melted wax. Tryamkin mixed paint with gasoline, turpentine, and sand. He created articles from burdock, thinly cut strips of newspaper ads, fire hoses, and plumbing pipes. His pieces are wooden and steel objects; sheets of metal cut in the style of Lucio Fontana, perforated by nails, and roughly sewn back together; black-and-white expressions à la Franz Klein; and colored ones à la Jackson Pollack. This gives you a taste of the endless cascade of ideas and techniques.
For Tryamkin, the world is color and structure, expressed in symbols capable of transmitting feelings and philosophical concepts that are inexpressible in words. The artist was not afraid to balance on the threshold of decorativeness as well. He created objects and structures that are distinct in their harsh expressiveness, outside of emotion, which originates largely from the choice of material. The artist used "concrete structures" and units, thus fully exiting the illusory space of painting, abstract painting included. The figurative and non-figurative aspects of his work comprise a unified, living space that freely changes form, shifting to levels of real and non-real scenarios of being.
Solo Exhibitions:
2021 — Materials — PA Gallery, Moscow
2018 — VLADIMIR TRYAMKIN. 1952 - 2017 — Siberia Gallery, Moscow
2011 — Vostochnaya Gallery, Moscow
2009 — IMAGE CATCHER — Na Chistih Prudah Gallery, Moscow
2009 — IMAGINARIUMS. VLADIMIR TRYAMKIN. PAINTINGS, GRAPHICS, OBJECT — Sovcom Gallery, Moscow
2006 — Vostochnaya Gallery, Moscow
1997 — Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
1989 — Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
1989 — DITTMAR Gallery, Hamburg, West Germany
1988 — CDL (Central House of Writers), Moscow
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 — 3 х 5 —PA Gallery, Moscow
2022 — Silence Mode — PA Gallery, Moscow
2014 — ARE YOU READY TO FLY? — MMOMA, Moscow
2013 — HOW ARE YOU? — Vostochnaya Gallery, Moscow
2011 — ONE WEEK PRIOR TO FLIGHT — Leonid Shishkin Gallery, Moscow
2009 — HEAVENLY AFFAIRS — А3 Gallery, Moscow
2009 — SUBURBS — Special project of MMOMA for the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2008 — UNOFFICIAL ART — Daev 33 Gallery, Moscow
2004 — ART-MOSCOW — Vostochnaya Gallery, CDH (Central House of Artists), Moscow
2000 — Yuzhniy Krest Gallery. Na Kashirke Hall. Moscow
1995 — 12 ARTISTS FROM MOSCOW — Russian House of Science and Culture, Berlin, Germany
1995 — MOSCOW ARTISTS. 1974 - 1994 — Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1994 — SIGN AND SYMBOL — Central House of Architect, Moscow
1993 — Galerie Clara Maria Sels. Dusseldorf, Germany
1991 — Cooling Gallery. London, UK
1991 — CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS TO MALEVICH — The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1991 — KUNST EUROPA — Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
1991 — TOKYO ART-EXPO — International art fair, Tokyo, Japan
1990 — ART HAMBURG — International art fair. Hamburg, West Germany
1990 — ABS — Expocentre, Moscow
1988-1989 — LABYRINTH — Moscow Palace of Youth. Moscow – Hamburg, West Germany
1987 — NEW CHAMBER ART — Soviet Culture Fund, Moscow
1977-1982 — City Committee of Graphic Artist, Moscow
