Today in the Literary Museum opens exhibition Hulot Sooster. Presents drawings, paintings and book illustrations. On the same evening will be a presentation of the book of memoirs of the artist's widow Lydia Sooster "I'm from the streets Kr

State Literature Museum continues exhibition program devoted to creative non-conformist artists. 40 years after the death of the classic "other art", a cult figure of Soviet underground Hulot Sooster his solo exhibition opens Today at 18.30 in the House Ostroukhova (Department of Literature of the twentieth century, Trubnikovsky Lane., 17). On the same evening will be a presentation of a book of memoirs written by the artist's widow Lydia Sooster "I'm from the streets of Krasin».

large-scale retrospective of the great master of "metaphysical" directions, first in Moscow after a long break, merge paintings and drawings from the archives of the family legacy, a collection of the society "Memorial", a number of private collections.

Hulot Ilmar Sooster (1924-1970) was born and raised in Estonia, passed through Stalin's camps, and after rehabilitation has become one of the leaders of the informal art culture in Moscow 1960. Strength of character and charm of personality, full of dramatic turns of fate and the excellent education received in the "Western", an independent republic by Soviet standards, combined with the talent and creative obsession quickly brought Sooster credibility among the underground. Caught in a scandal in the Manege (1962), when Nikita Khrushchev berated the avant-garde - of the exhibition "30 years old Moscow Union", he dared to object to the leader of the CPSU Central Committee.

with warm recollections of colorful Estonians, the example artistic stoicism, classical non-conformism, who formed his inner circle: Oscar Rabin , Erik Bulatov , Vladimir Yankilevsky , Viktor Pivovarov , Ernst Unknown , Edward Steinberg , Ivan Chuikov . The largest representative of the School Sretensky Boulevard ", which was the soul of Hulot Sooster, - Ilya Kabakov in 1980 dedicated someone "Notes on the life of the informal and organized in the West, their joint exhibition" Illustration as a means of survival "that displays the life of the Soviet barracks.

The camp theme is clearly heard and at Sooster, especially in the early period . The retrospective at the Literary Museum opens a series of fragments of "The camp portraits, burned during a search. Seven years they lived a 46-ti Sooster held in the Gulag, which fell in 1949 for "belonging to the anti-Soviet group", with the absurd charges of trying to hijack the plane. There he learned Russian, and met his future wife - Lydia Sergi in his youth imprisoned for "anti-Soviet agitation».

Sooster works kept in museums and private collections, including the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Estonia (Tallinn), Tartu Museum of Art, the Museum of Zimmerly (New Jersey, USA). However, for the Moscow audience master long remained a legend. Sooster first solo exhibition was held posthumously in 1970 in Tartu, where he graduated from the Art Institute (in the pre-war Estonia - Higher Art School Pallas), and only in 1979 his work was first presented to the Municipal Committee of volume of graphic artists at the Little Georgian Street in Moscow .

exhibition will bring together famous paintings, full of philosophical paradoxes, reflecting the fascination with metaphysics and surrealism ( "Junipers on an orange background," 1959; "Red Egg", 1964; "atomic explosion", 1968 ), and lesser-known works of graphic art.

important role in the creation Sooster to book and magazine illustration: for them it was taken as the only possibility of earning, but served as thoroughly and seriously as and painting "for himself". Collaborated with the publishing house "Knowledge" and the magazine "The knowledge - force, became one of the best illustrators of science fiction, children's and popular scientific literature, including books by Asimov, and C. Simak, as well as the first Russian-language edition of" Dandelion Wine "P . Bradbury.

Along with paradigmatic works Sooster presented a series of paintings and drawings, not previously known to the public, as well as archival photographs and books in its decoration. It will be shown and an example of handling the master to the animation: together with Yuri Sobolev, he made art director cartoon "Glass Harmonica" (directed by Andrei Khrzhanovsky, music by Alfred Schnittke, 1968). Under pressure from the film was subjected to ruthless censorship alteration, went to the movies only two weeks, causing an explosion of interest among the intelligentsia, but was soon banned and 20 years spent "on the shelf. As part of the exhibition also demonstrates the animated film by Andrei Khrzhanovsky "Hulot Sooster", consisting of 2 parts: "Landscape with juniper" and "School of Fine Arts." Film director considers the creative life of the artist as a model of the birth of a new art in an era of "thaw". Literary museum by the artist Zhutovski and Mikhail Grobman for help in organizing the exhibition Hulot Sooster and presentation of the book Lydia Sooster.

exhibition is open to the public from February 11 to March 3 2010.

Source: museum.ru