Sorrow - 1975

"Joking, of course, should be able to. Konstantin Ivanov succeeded like few people. He overtook his contemporaries on the part of the" jokes "in a dozen years. Despite these cautious themes and transparent motives of social phobia, alienation and the quality of" proto-underground "style , the artist's works do not leave feeling of anguish or total failure. His "Grief" (1975), as if repeating Studi A. Aref'eva, softer and more lyrical past. This in itself is not a virtue (in the sense of the aggressive strategies of contemporary art rather - lack of) but interested in the viewers sympathy and irony shines through in this stage of explicit violence, as "Judith" (1978) - and it will bring together not only the "easy" minded visitor of the museum - with the rigidity of psychosomatic indications, removed K. Yanov in interesting (with " topology "of art standpoint) sites, but also experienced lover - with a look at a pretty rare wit our contemporaries past Soviet society. Company sought (and our) only to the best. "- Philipp Kondratenko