Anatoly Zverev: "Sit down, detulya, I'm immortalized"
ARTinvestment.RU   04 декабря 2009

around his name not recorded, and passion. For the young art critic he sixties and bohemian character of his era, but for many people who knew him personally - an artist by the grace of God and for all times. Among art critics, and among the artists no one remains indifferent at the mention of the name: he is still passionately love or passionately hate the same way, compete with him, envy him, his overthrow, his paintings were fake, he had some annoying, others - fascinating. The audience also applies to the creation of Anatoly Zverev is very interested and friendly, as evidenced by the queues at the Tretyakov Gallery and reviews of exhibitions of the artist. According to these reviews and the queues out the beast - the people's artist, the one that people are proud and transmits the legend about him by word of mouth.

Exhibition "Sit down, detulya, I'm immortalized" and an attempt to recreate the legend, or rather, the real myth of the artist Anatoly Zverev, managed to maintain a creative and personal freedom, exuberant artistry, bold and cheerful disposition in the world dark and unfree. His organic living life as a bright and dizzying views, continuing the brilliant performance with sharpened remarks and rhymes, which he generously scattered and which seemed to be given to him as easily as a virtuoso drawings and studio painting. Life Zverev and his work - a kind of unified work of art. How's life and poetry is so revered them Velimir Khlebnikov, talk about creativity which is not without stories and legends about his life adventures. Life Zvereva, they lived so bravely and artistically, was also a work of art. And therefore, in addition to carefully selected from the rich heritage of the artist's paintings, the exhibition presents two films. Witty draft Alexander Dolgin and Iraida Yusupova, "animating" Zvereva, and pivotal moments in his fate by means of computer graphics and other kinofokusami. And documentary Valeria Zalotuhi, in which about Zverevo tell his pals and contemporaries - Dmitry Plavinsky , Vladimir Nemukhin and Natalia Sidel'nyk Wita.

- Sit down, detulya, I will perpetuate, - said Zverev beautiful ladies of the last century. Those who come to the exhibition of "Chekhov's Cottage", looking at the women's romantic portraits, will see that the artist knew what he said. And his best psychological self-portraits will make not only admire the skill of the painter, but also understand much about time and about the society, which seemed arrogant united in their desire to break down and destroy the freedom of the artist and art, but has sunk into oblivion, and art is alive and survive , God forbid, more than one bound and non-free era.

The exhibition is open until February 14, 2010.

Source: plgallery.ru