Early Years
1969-1989
Abstract Paintings
1990-1996
Drawings
1997-2012
Early Years
1969-1989
Untitled
1962
Oil on canvas
113 x 113 cm
Untitled
1965
Oil on canvas
128 x 107,5 cm
Hiroshima
1968
Oil on canvas
126 x 149 cm
Untitled
1969
Oil on canvas
205 x 300 cm
'Repka' (Fairy tale)
1967
Oil on canvas
102 x 66 cm
Untitled
1969
Oil on canvas
153 x 77 cm
Untitled
1969
Oil on canvas
200 x 297 cm
Untitled
1970
Oil on canvas
204,5 x 292,5 cm
Untitled
1970
Oil on canvas
129.5 x 149.5 cm
Untitled
1974
Oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Untitled
1980
Oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Fight
1982
Oil on canvas
123 X 190 cm

Abstract Paintings
1989-1996
Large format
300 x 200 cm
Medium format
200 x 150 cm
Offsize format
body of work created in berlin
Large format
(1990-1995)
Chubarov subjected the works of the Berlin period to a game of improvisation. He deliberately chose this style, as he had mastered it. He had no intention of transferring his older works to larger canvases. That seemed too banal to him and offensive to his level of expertise. Chubarov understood improvisation in a musical sense. He was fascinated by unpredictability.
body of work created in berlin
Medium format
(1990-1995)
Chubarov subjected the works of the Berlin period to a game of improvisation. He deliberately chose this style, as he had mastered it. He had no intention of transferring his older works to larger canvases. That seemed too banal to him and offensive to his level of expertise. Chubarov understood improvisation in a musical sense. He was fascinated by unpredictability.
BODY OF WORK CREATED IN BERLIN
Monochrome Series
(1995-1996)
Chubarov subjected the works of the Berlin period to a game of improvisation. He deliberately chose this style, as he had mastered it. He had no intention of transferring his older works to larger canvases. That seemed too banal to him and offensive to his level of expertise. Chubarov understood improvisation in a musical sense. He was fascinated by unpredictability. Maybe the monochrome series was the last stroke of genius, who knows?
Offsize format
Drawings
1997-2012
In Chubarov's final years, his works done in ink do not ask such questions.
He did not address specific characters, only anonymous figures involved in wild merrymaking. Such merrymaking is characterized not only by erotica, but also by blatant sexual acts. Chubarov accentuates individual body parts, both male and female, that are involved in sexual games. In these provocative paintings, we find primal forms of human life. Civilization is turned off. We are taken back to prehistoric times in a time machine, where we become observers in a world that never ceases to amaze. Do these pictures reflect the aspirations of the artist? In his final years, did he dream, like Picasso, of a turbulent world surrounded by a multitude of men and women? Are these love games, which always have an inherently violent nature, a reflection of our civilization? Do we not want to talk about this? Does it destroy our intimate world? In the final years of Picasso's work, there were more and more wild scenes. His series dedicated to artists and art models are the best evidence of his resistance to advancing infirmity. Chubarov's works in ink really get to the point. They demonstrate a rampage, a drama that overcomes the dominance of the world, in a way that may seem surrealistic. Nevertheless, we find a lot of truth in these works, when we try to pass them off as our own fantasies.
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