Persten

61 Hearts, 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 68,7 x 50,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/40 - 40/40
Price €650
Code 051

61 Hearts, 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 68,7 x 50,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/35 - 35/35
Price €680
Code 050

61 Hearts, silver 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 68,7 x 50,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/50 - 50/50
Price €600
Code 049

61 Hearts, 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 68,7 x 50,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/50 - 50/50
Price €600
Code 048

50 Houses, 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 65,8 x 49,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/95 - 95/95
Price €500
Code 047

50 Houses, gold 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 65,8 x 49,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/65 - 65 / 65
Price €550
Code 046

50 Houses, 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 65,8 x 49,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/65 - 65 / 65
Price €550
Code 045

50 Houses, 2008
82,5 x 60 cm / 65,8 x 49,8 cm
Numbered and Signed 1/65 - 65 / 65
Price €550
Code 044

Universal Ball of Princesses, grey 2008
Silk screen on paper
82,5 x 60 cm / 66 x 50 cm printing area
Numbered and Signed 1/100 - 100 / 100
Price €550
Code 043

Universal Ball of Princesses, silver 2008
Silk screen on paper
82,5 x 60 cm / 66 x 50 cm printing area
Numbered and Signed 1/100 - 100 / 100
Price €550
Code 042

Born in Leningrad in 1961

Lives and works in St.Petersburg

Zen-Dandyism

(Excerpt from the text by Ekaterina Andreeva, 2007, for Khlobystin’s exhibition at the Gallery D137 in St. Petersburg, Russia).

Famous Petersburg artist, the curator and the historian of art Andrey Khlobystin represents in D-137 gallery an exhibition of is picturesque-graphic products and light objects on motives of the creativity of the end 1980 – the beginnings of 1990th years. In Andrey Khlobystin's creativity three form-building impulses operate: interest to magic and grotesque from parents-archeologists, researchers of primitive cultures; concept " art will ", apprehended at Ivan Chechot's lectures ; The idea of Michael Larionov representing art as "vsechestvo" received from Timur Novikov, namely as the universal lifelong adventure which is bringing up keenness to the world, to language In total any and especially invisible, usual, not from sphere of art of things.

In critical first third 1990th years Khlobystin creates the vital project under the name " Art will ", including the edition of the same almanac, installation and performances. A subject of representation of "Art will " in its first numbers and actions becomes revolutionary fermentation of a society and free fermentation of outstanding minds.

To the middle 1990 Khlobystin has thought up concept "dzen-dandyism". Then magic shine of glamour amplified every year, and Khlobystin very much in time has paid attention that дендизм (Dandyism) is a paradoxical discipline, esthetics a body, at times rather grotesquely, as a stronghold of unlimited and whimsical personal will.

It prefers heroes and characters, which bear the behavior (radical residing as spoke then Khlobystin) a message that creativity is freedom from dogmatism.

Khlobystin starts to collect such human examples in a collection of the dandy, frickes, foolishes, sacred, spending selection among historic figures of not very well what time and pulling together Feodor Tolstoy-American, the aristocrat, the adventurer and the duelist, with Valery Tcherkasov, the driven off father Leningrad.

(…) Khlobystin's figures based simultaneously on fantastic illustrations and on caricatures, grow as well from close looking the Renaissance pictures. There, on the intermediate plans incorporated by a sketch of the artist with blue mountains of horizons, knights and dragons, monks and the gangsters wandering scientists wandered and lodged. Now mountains of horizon send away in virtual space, and mysterious heroes open everyone in the window, as icons and windows on the monitor of a computer. Khlobystin uses and will simultaneously amortize shone computer space, returning to a modern technogenic sight from "windows" humanity of small houses of Winnie Puha.

In anthropological collection Khlobystin samples of fermentive substance of culture who allow art to not turn sour, and to operate without a limitation period owing to clearness and independence of an idea or surprising grotesqueness of an image. Both that, and another reliably provides magic marginality, that is independence from fast prejudices of a society.