Vladimir Mizinov
EVENINGS ON THE VOLGA
EVENINGS ON THE VOLGA
The Museum of Naive Art (Yekaterinburg) hosted a solo exhibition of the naive artist Vladimir Mizinov, whose works were provided by collectors Elena Talyanskaya and Georgy Smirnov. They are also the founders and owners of Gallery 9B.
Vladimir Fedorovich Mizinov (1946–2018) was born in Nizhny Novgorod. He received an incomplete secondary education. He served in the navy. For a long time, he worked as an assembler at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant. But after receiving an industrial injury, he quit and began working as a guard at the river port. At the same time, he began painting. He painted mainly still lifes, portraits and rural landscapes. Soon his work was noticed by professional artists, collectors and art historians.
The exhibition featured expressive Mizinov cats, still lifes with pineapples and watermelons, Volga fish and crayfish, reminiscent of primitive advertising signs of the early 20th century, as well as landscapes and genre paintings, the subjects of which are associated with the village lyricism in the artist's work.
Vladimir Mizinov's personal exhibitions were held in Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow. With the traveling exhibition "Pushkin Images in the Works of Naive Artists of Russia" (1999), his paintings visited nine cities in Russia and the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. He took part in a series of international exhibitions of naive art INSITA in Bratislava (1994, 1997 and 2000). Participant of the Moscow International Festival of Naive Art and Outsider Art "Festnaiv" (2004, 2007, 2010). Mizinov's works are in the collections of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, the Museum of Naive Art in Moscow, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve and in private collections in Russia and abroad.
Vladimir Fedorovich Mizinov (1946–2018) was born in Nizhny Novgorod. He received an incomplete secondary education. He served in the navy. For a long time, he worked as an assembler at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant. But after receiving an industrial injury, he quit and began working as a guard at the river port. At the same time, he began painting. He painted mainly still lifes, portraits and rural landscapes. Soon his work was noticed by professional artists, collectors and art historians.
The exhibition featured expressive Mizinov cats, still lifes with pineapples and watermelons, Volga fish and crayfish, reminiscent of primitive advertising signs of the early 20th century, as well as landscapes and genre paintings, the subjects of which are associated with the village lyricism in the artist's work.
Vladimir Mizinov's personal exhibitions were held in Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow. With the traveling exhibition "Pushkin Images in the Works of Naive Artists of Russia" (1999), his paintings visited nine cities in Russia and the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. He took part in a series of international exhibitions of naive art INSITA in Bratislava (1994, 1997 and 2000). Participant of the Moscow International Festival of Naive Art and Outsider Art "Festnaiv" (2004, 2007, 2010). Mizinov's works are in the collections of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, the Museum of Naive Art in Moscow, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve and in private collections in Russia and abroad.
