Necrorealism is an art movement that emerged in the early 1980s in Leningrad.
The Necrorealism's object of the aesthetic description is the existence of a person who initially stands on the verge of death and demonstrates the pathology of displaced actions.
Necrorealism demonstrates the dual nature of the artificial as opposed to the natural.
Necrorealism is both dead (necro) and alive (realism).
Necrorealism emerged in the early 1980s among the New Artists.
Evgeny Yufit is considered the father of necrorealism.
Among the early associates were Oleg Kotelnikov, Andrey Mertvy (Kurmayartsev), Evgeny Debil, Yuri Tsirkul, Alexey Trupyr.
Necrorealism arose as a result of a group of young people imitating fights in the surrounding forests of Leningrad, on suburban trains, in courtyards, at construction sites, in apartments.
Yufit filmed these actions on 8 mm film.
At first it was an "unconscious" art.
In the early 1990s, spontaneous Necrorealism begins to undergo conceptual elaboration: Vladimir Kustov develops the principles of “necrostatics” and “necrodynamics”.
History
In 1985 Yufit founds the Mzhalalafilm film studio.
The first films "Lumberjack", "Werewolf orderlies", "Spring", "Courage", "Boar of suicide" are shot at this studio.
Private screenings of Necrokino are held in clubs, palaces of culture, in apartments.
At the end of the 1980s, Konstantin Mitenev, Igor Bezrukov, Sergey Chernov, Vladimir Kustov, Vasily Maslov, Sergey Serp, Valery Morozov, Alexander Anikeenko joined.
In 1988, Yufit's short films participated in the Arsenal International Film Festival in Riga.
Since then, he will show his works in prestigious museums around the world (MoMA, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) and at major festivals (Rotterdam, Berlin, Rimini).
In 1989, several necro paintings appeared in the Russian Museum at the New Arrivals exhibition.
In 1989, the first 35 mm necro film was shot at the Lenfilm studio at Alexander Sokurov's studio.
In 1990, Necrorealism presents its work in the Russian Museum at the international exhibition "Territory of Art".
Since the 1990s, the necrorealists Yufit, Kustov, Serp have been participating in many major exhibitions of Soviet and then Russian art (Stedelijk Museum; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Kunstverein Hannover).
In the late 1990s, Yufit and Kustov held personal exhibitions at the Russian Museum.