Pavel

Otdelnov

english/russian

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• Works' 06-07
• Gospel story
• Euro 2003
• Summer 2002
• Works' 03-04
• Works' 00-02
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• Diploma 1999
• Works' 95-99
• Studies 1995

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Pavel Otdelnov

1979 born in Dzerzhinsk, Russia.
1999 graduated Nizhniy Novgorod Art college.
2005 graduated Surikov Art Institute, the faculty of painting, Pavel Nikonov workshop.
2007 graduated B.F.A., Surikov Art Institute.
Member of the Moscow Artists' Union (Painting chapter) since 2006.
Lives and works in Moscow.


Pavel Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhisk. From his childhood he considered himself as an artist although there were no other artists in his family. From 1994 to 1999 Pavel studied in Art College in Nizhny Novgorod, where an emphasis was traditionally made on working from life. To get to the College Pavel spent two hours in train daily. All this time he was busy with drawing. Daily train trips had a strong influence on the young painter, determining the central role of the road in his art. Pavel's first large personal exposition hold in 2006 in the Central Exhibitions Hall in Nizhny Novgorod was called "A way home". The theme of the road is also well noticeable in his college degree work "Cargo-200" made in 1999. The idea of the work was born during one of the sketches trips where the artist got acquainted with an Afganistan war veteran. Ex-soldier revealed to Pavel his fears of being died for a peaceful life when he came back from the war. Returning to his home railway station he couldn't leave it for a long time and go home. Impressed by this confession Pavel decided to create a generalized character of a veteran. Through the military registration of Dzerzhinsk he found all men who had taken part in the Chechen war and painted their portraits. The professors of the Surikov Art institute presented at the defense of the graduation project suggested Pavel to continue his education in the P. Nikonov's workshop. Composition and organization of the picture plane were in the spotlight of the workshop. But the main source of schooling was communication with Nikonov himself, who worked a lot and was concerned with the plastic problems he discussed with his apprentices.
Issues of backdrop and atmosphere became the principal ones in Pavel's art dated to his study in Surikov institute. This tendency was mainly due to his ardour for painting of artists of the years 1920-1930s, such as A. Drevin, M.Sokolov, A.Labas. This passion as well as some journeys to Russian North and Central Asia resulted in a graduate work in Surikov institute devoted to the Gospel stories and defended in 2005.
In 2007 together with his friend Egor Plotnikov Pavel visited metallurgical complexes of Western Siberia. It was a creative experiment aimed to reexamination of usual for soviet painters landscapes. Domination of the nature elements - air, light, time - over the industrial space is shown in works appeared after the journey.
Today Pavel aspires to plastic interpretation of the urban space. The main theme now is a temporal extent and immersion into the atmosphere experienced by the author. The "Earth. Sky" series is devoted to classical russian landscape of the 19th century. Continuing tradition of Savrasov's landscape Pavel tries to minimalize it painting not a simple landscape but it's essence. The idea of such a series came to painter's mind after he observed russian scenery through a weeping bus window.
"Colour fields" is a series of an abstract landscapes. Earth is shown here from above as a geometric abstraction, an all changing area. It is an Earth deprived of its depth, an Earth seen at the display by the use of Google.
The "Urban scapes" and "The Desert" are an experiment made to see the space of our habitat. To find a prototype it is not necessary to go far away. Sometimes it's enough to walk around your home, along MKAD or to climb on a mountain of a domestic waste ("The Desert") to feel the perishable nature of being.
Huge works from the "In motion" series is an attempt to merge a viewer into the space that artist investigates. Images from other world appear by themselves in a customary suburban scape near Moscow. Imaginary objects seek to become real, but still remain changeable and unsteady, existing in vacuum.
Modern scapes are depicted in "Highway" and "Highway-2". Space is organized here by receding into the distance roads and overpasses that cross the roads. These scapes are out of time. One day each grand building turns into an ancient ruins. Some time our descendants will take the same view of junctions of highway as we do of the Parthenon.