In the Tretyakov gallery, the premiere of the film "the Alphabet of dissent 1". Heroes Director Alexander Shatalov became the artists of the post-war unofficial art, information about which was published in the magazine "And-Я", published in France

As in the Soviet Union could officially publish a magazine on contemporary art, blatantly Dodge the Canon of socialist realism? Brave people Alexander Sidorov (he was hiding in the Soviet Union under the pseudonym of Alexey Alexeev) and emigrated Russian artist Igor Shelkovsky came up as: to collect a material in the Union, and then to smuggle and to print in France. And it so happened that in fact they have become the most important chroniclers of his era. Only eight numbers published in the period from 1979 to 1986, has kept the most important evidence of the development of the artistic process that goes aside from the official one. In the "And-Я" in Russian and English the article was published, dedicated to Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Komar and Melamid, Dmitri Prigov, Vahrich Bahchanyana etc. In a special literary issue of the journal was published the texts of Vladimir Sorokin, Eduard Limonov, and Andrei Monastyrsky and other authors.

the release of the film coincided (or so it was planned) with the jubilee exhibition at the Tretyakov gallery of the artist, articles which have not appeared in the "And-Я", — Igor Shelkovsky.

"the Alphabet of dissent 1" is not the first film about the artists of the unofficial art made by writer and Director Alexander Shatalov. Prior to that he came "Oscar Rabin. Happy path" (2010), "Erik Bulatov Sky" (2010), "Spring in Florence. Scenes from the life of the artist Erik Bulatov" (2012) (jointly with T. Pinsky), "Nemuhinskie monologues" (2014), "Oleg Tselkov. I'm not from here, I'm a stranger" (2015).

Sources: tretyakovgallery.ru, interior.ru

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