Andrey Krasulin
Berlin,
Germany
February '22
sculptor, artist.
He graduated from the sculpture department of the Stroganov School in 1960. He was engaged in monumental and easel sculpture.
and graphics, and from the mid-1980s – painting. He worked in the Administration
on the design of the Palace of Soviets, carried out several projects
in architectural spaces – the lobby of the theatre in Tula, the interior of the Philharmonic in Ryazan, the orphanage in Gelendzhik, the International House of Music and the P. Fomenko Workshop Theatre (facade) in Moscow.
Unicorn. Works from 1960 until 2023
The exhibition of Andrei Krasulin (1934) at Galerie Volker Diehl presented works created in Berlin in 2022-2023. Krasulin, an outstanding minimalist artist, became known for his innovative monumental projects in public space. His method is associated with the discovery of a new perspective on objects and forms of the visual world, a kind of "cutting" of everyday life, eliminating unnecessary details and decorativeness. Krasulin's "last period" is filled with immersion in the urban space of Berlin on the banks of the Spree River and, at the same time, a new interpretation of memory, trauma, time. Many finds and discoveries took place here. For example, the work "Unicorn" that appeared in this way is both a metaphor for absence and loss, but at the same time a key image that gave the name to the entire project. A small retrospective at Galerie Volker Diehl presents completely new works by the artist, created in 2022-2023. in Berlin, in connection with famous works from the 1960s and later. The exhibition included objects from the series "Envelopes", "Bronze about Mandelstam", "A Person with Disabilities", "Boards" and others. A catalogue with texts by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Andrey Krasulin and the curator of the exhibition Evgenia Kiseleva-Afflerbach was published especially for the exhibition.