The Museum and Public Center. A. Sakharov an exhibition where you can learn a great deal about one of the most important publications on the informal Soviet art

6 August at the Moscow Museum and Public Center. A. Sakharov opened an exhibition entitled «The journal on the windowsill. History of "A-I "».

The exhibition was organized by the National Center for Contemporary Art as part of his Festival collections. The exhibition is devoted to non-Russian art magazine «A-I», which was published from 1979 till 1986 in Paris. Total published eight issues of the journal (including one written). The materials gathered in Moscow, Alexander Sidorov, and transported the artist and a Parisian journal editor Igor Sergeyevich Shelkovskiy" Shelkovskoy .

page of the Journal should have been replaced by artists of the missing, to enable artists and critics to freely express, discuss, debate, that is reflected on the paper lively artistic process, to bring it to a wider range of people living in the USSR, and in the West.

Although the log does not contain a political nature in the conventional sense, participation in the forthcoming edition of the West, it was a risky affair. If the initial «A-I» to select at the customs, avoiding its spread in the Soviet Union, then the authors have begun to exert pressure through a call to talk to the KGB, the deprivation of workshops and orders barring the exhibition shelmovaniya in print, urgent recruitment , searches and confiscation of materials and other means, including imprisonment.

permanent participants of the magazine have been Ilya Kabakov , Erik Bulatov , Oleg V. Vasilyev , Ivan Chuikov , Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid , Alexander Kosolapov , Rimma and Valery Gerloviny , Edward Gorokhovskiy , Francisco Infante , Dmitry Prigov , Boris Orlov , Vagrich Bahchanyan , Igor Makarevich , Genrikh Khudyakov, Mikhail Chernyshov, group «Collective action », « fly agaric »,« APTART »,« North », as well as Rostislav Lebedev , Lydia Masterkova , Vsevolod Nekrasov, Victor Pivovarov , group «TOTART», Tselkov Oleg , Michael Schwartzman , Edward Steinberg , Vladimir Yankilevsky and many others, with more than fifty people. Constant journal authors were John Boult, Boris Groys and Igor Golomshtok, Victor and Margarita Tupitsyn, Vitaly Patsyukov.

Fine several magazine recreated at the exhibition at the Museum and Public Center. Andrei Sakharov through large reproductions of published works of artists. There are also materials from the archive log (correspondence with artists and journalists, invitation cards, posters, newspaper articles, selected editions «A-I»), reflecting an artistic life outside the Soviet-era censorship.

As curators events by Alina and Igor Fyodorovich Shelkovskoy. The exhibition will run until September 11.

Sources: sakharov-center . ru , artinvestment.ru