Large canvas without frames, covered with thick brushstrokes, expressionist painting against the flat surface of the walls ... This is not an exhibition of conceptual art, it is an apartment interior in one of the metropolitan areas. It is modern painting, and specifically the work of the famous Moscow artist Vladimir Brainin, became the point of reference in the design of this space. Crooked streets, iron grates, familiar Moscow landscapes through lonely bare trees ... V. Brainin, one of the pillars of Russian non-conformism, is rightfully considered one of the most romantic minstrels in Moscow. The project proposed by the architects was supposed to combine what seemed incompatible: a fairly brutal rebellious painting and modern European design. The space of the apartment is based on a combination of strict graphics of lines and planes with a complex and diverse texture of materials. The interior of the representative part of the house (living room and dining room, inscribed in a semi-circular rotunda with a solid glazing) is dominated by horizontal surfaces: ideally smooth racks and hanging cornices, the table top of a large dining table, straight lines of the built-in cabinets form a complex pattern of parallel planes. Dark wenge draws clear lines against the background of golden parquet and gray-lilac walls, creating a clear spatial perspective - an involuntary allusion, a recollection of the majestic palace enfilade ... The parade theme is developing in the homeowner's office, however, due to the fact that most surfaces are made here from light Slavonian oak, the interior gets a calmer, more restrained sound. The territory of the owners' son (living room, bedroom and bathroom separated into a separate block) has a bright emotional character: in this part of the house a combination of contrasting surfaces with various textures (wenge, warm terracotta plaster, light velor furniture) is actively used. The volume of the room (not too large in area) increases visually due to the sliding doors between the living room and the bedroom and the diagonal construction of the latter. In order to inscribe in the well-built, self-valuable, in fact, the interior is no less independent paintings, all the details and nuances were calculated: the size of the walls and the dimensions of the paintings, the ratio of shades of "ragged" plaster and color of canvases. Emotional, rich canvases became one of the most significant components of the interior, its final chord. The authors of the project deliberately refused to decorate the painting into a baguette: the apparent contrast between the frameless canvases and ideally even planes of the walls makes the interior even brighter and more expressive. From the windows of the living room opens a wide panorama of Moscow, the University building on the Sparrow Hills is visible. The picturesque canvas placed on one of the walls supports the theme: a similar Moscow landscape crowned with a pointed tower of Moscow State University.Eugene Polyantsev: "When creating this interior, the works of Vladimir Brainin, a well-known Moscow nonconformist artist, became the starting point. Many stylistic decisions and the overall coloristics of the space were built specifically for this painting."
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