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Only Persist ONLY PERSIST Works by Ernst Neizvestny from the Collection of Wayne F. Yakes, M.D. September 13 - November 8, 2012 The Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Curated by Simon Zalkind TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . 4. INTRODUCTION . 8. ERNST NEIZVESTNY: MY ODYSSEY WITH ERNST . 12. ONLY PERSIST - THE ART OF ERNST NEIZVESTNY . 20. AN INTERVIEW WITH ERNST NEIZVESTNY . 36. BIOGRAPHY . 44. ADDITIONAL WORKS . 46. Battle of Children, 1986 CHECKLIST OF PLATES . 60. acrylic on canvas, 44 3/4” x 69” 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by Therese Jones, PhD When we think about the scientific process, we think place to exchange ideas, inspire collaboration, foster Chancellor Emeritus, and Marguerite Childs, retired about laboratories, experiments and facts . And just as compassion, fuel imagination, transcend boundaries Vice-Chancellor of the University of Colorado Health the sciences require special facilities to support human and realize the universal appeal of the arts . Sciences Center . We would also like to express discovery, so also must the arts have distinctive spaces appreciation to the faculty, affiliated faculty, and staff to celebrate human imagination .“Only Persist: Works There are many people to thank for this major of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities . by Ernst Neizvestny” is the inaugural exhibit in The accomplishment . First and foremost, we would like Art Gallery at the Fulginiti Pavilion, which is dedicated to express our heartfelt appreciation to Dr . Vincent There are two additional groups of individuals who to bridging the cultural divide between science and art A . Fulginiti, Chancellor Emeritus of the University have played a crucial role in this endeavor .The first are in order to explore the most fundamental questions of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and his wife, those who generously donated time and money to the about human experience: who we are and how we care Shirley . Their passion for the arts and their commitment project with special acknowledgment to the Louis and for one another . to education have inspired this gallery, a space that Harold Price Foundation, to past and present members Shirley believes will quickly transition from being of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities Advisory It has taken years of persistence, patience, generosity unusual and “ahead of its time” into something that Board, and to members of the advisory board for the and creativity to complete this facility at the University students, faculty, and patients will recognize, and even Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program .Their gifts of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (AMC) . In all expect, as a critical element in health care education, are due, in large part, to the support of the CU Foundation academic health centers, the whole of a person — his practice and research at AMC . We would also like to with special appreciation to retired President and CEO or her cultural identity, experiences, beliefs — is often thank Professor Mark Yarborough, former Director of Wayne Hutchens, Cheryl Kisling, Ashton Chase and reduced to the discrete components of a patient — the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, for his Elizabeth Mueller . The second group are those who symptoms, test results, diagnoses . The visual arts can leadership and vision, and Dr . Dori Biester, current actualized the project, including master architect, Noel be a powerful corrective to the dehumanizing excesses Acting Director, for carrying that vision and us forward . Copeland, from the Office of Institutional Planning; of contemporary health care, as well as an immediate Special acknowledgment also goes to Dr . Richard project manager, Kathy McNally, from Facilities reminder of the wondrous complexities of life and Krugman, Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs and Projects; and Mollie Young, Manager of Facilities and death . However, no other academic health center has a Dean of the School of Medicine, who has served as Planning for the School of Medicine . Three Masks, 1988 building like the Fulginiti Pavilion . It is unique, offering both guide and champion throughout the long journey acrylic on canvas, 28” x 22” the campus community and the greater community a from bright idea to first exhibit and to Dr . James Shore, 4 5 Finally, we owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the dedication, knowledge and expertise of Simon Zalkind, curator for this exhibit and the four to follow in the inaugural year of the gallery . Zalkind also introduced us to Dr . Wayne Yakes, who has generously loaned us the works in this exhibit from his personal collection . It seems especially fitting and fortuitous that a working physician from our own community — one who is recognized for both his tireless commitment to patients and his deep appreciation of the arts — has helped launch this gallery on the Anschutz Medical Campus . Dr . Yakes has been a long-standing supporter and Clinical Professor of Interventional Radiology and Interventional Neuroradiology at the University of Colorado, donating his services and collaborating on patient procedures with many of our distinguished faculty . We thank him very much . Therese Jones, PhD Director, Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program Center for Bioethics and Humanities Falling Totems, 1985 acrylic on canvas, 22” x 30” 6 7 INTRODUCTION by Simon Zalkind On April 22, 1945, near Heisendorf, Austria, an garde ”. 1 Neizvestny’s description of the Russo-centric gesture and human affect are invariably linked to the exploding bullet found its target and lodged itself sources of his art appear to ignore or exclude Western human body . In particular, the long-worked motif of in the chest of eighteen year-old Lieutenant Ernst influences . However, the art of the mid-20th century, the Crucifixion, the afflicted and pathos-ridden body Neizvestny . His spine was shattered and his internal particularly in America, is rich in moments of “epiphany,” of Christ, began increasingly to proliferate in Neizvestny’s organs mangled . That mutilating event and his long moments of enormous breakthroughs of energy and work . It is that particular body that occupies center and painful recovery from the deformities it inflicted insight which are then articulated in pictorial terms . stage in almost two millennia of Western art . However, have provided the central themes and motifs of It is difficult to imagine that Neizvestny did not have in the modern period, the image of Christ crucified Neizvestny’s art for the last sixty-five years . His at least some exposure to developments in American has been exploited on many levels, often in conformity intimate engagement with the human form as the site art during the 1940’s and 50’s, and to American with specific cultural or national agendas that are not of transformative suffering, personal epiphany, and artists’ engagements with mythic, archetypal and necessarily related to the values or creedal formulas of the holistic synthesis of body, intellect and spirit transcendent themes . At the same time, the eloquence Christianity . For a modern artist to adopt the Crucifixion provides the context from which one can engage of his mature vision is impossible to separate from as a central and recurring motif positions his or her Neizvestny’s art . In turn, Neizvestny’s commitment his experience as an artist during the most repressive work in deep historical and psychic contexts while it to the physicality of his art is infused by the heroic periods of the Soviet regime . Those grim, barbarous simultaneously speaks to the crisis of belief that ideals of the Russian avant-garde — Kandinsky, decades when totalitarian idealogues sought to erase characterizes modernity . It is especially powerful Malevich, Tatlin — as well as by the tragic moral authentic human presence from human culture within totalitarian cultures, asserting — against a vision of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, and the Christian oriented Neizvestny to place, with great urgency, the frightening proliferation of disincarnate and anarchic utopianism of Nikolai Federov . Also relevant to body at the center of his concern . Neizvestny’s art possibilities — a morally and spiritually meaningful Neizvestny’s vision for the future of “embodiment” is seeks to restore to the embodied self the potential to universe . How we see the body mediates and his optimistic regard for technology’s positive impact manifest freedom . conditions every aspect of how we live an embodied on an evolving human culture . life . Neizvestny’s crucifixions compel us to look and Death, love, torment, and redemption — the tensions look again . Neizvestny describes his aesthetic and philosophical between flesh and spirit — are all lived through and Anatomy of Masks, 1985 allegiances as a fusion of “post-religious Russian within the body . Neizvestny’s sculptures and paintings, Neizvestny’s career spans six decades, during which acrylic on canvas, 30” x 24 3/4” philosophy with the ideals of the Russian avant- through their integration of human subject, human time he has seen seen the ascendance of abstract 8 9 art followed by Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism My first sustained encounter with the extraordinary Dr . Wayne Yakes’ commitment to art and artists and a slew of newer, technology-based avant-garde work of Soviet dissident artists was in 2002 when I continues to expand in myriad and unexpected ways . movements . Neizvestny remains a singularly resolute organized an exhibition entitled “Russian Revolutions: In recent years his patronage and
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