Today in Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery will open an exhibit of Slava Zaitsev "Metamorphoses"

Today, 14 April, at 18.00 in the Gallery of Arts Zurab Tsereteli (st. Prechistenka, 19) will open an exhibit of People's Artist of Russia full member of the Russian Academy of Arts Slava Zaitsev «Metamorphoses. The exhibition includes drawings, pastels, photographs, models clothes.

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Slava Zaitsev - famous fashion designer, painter, graphic artist, painter of theatrical costume. Even in years of study at the Moscow Textile Institute, he drew the attention of a rare talent. In 1967 the artist received the Grand Prix for the dress under the slogan "Russia" at the World Festival of Fashion in Moscow. During this period, its high authority vested in it to put it in the Western press named "Red Dior, which stressed the organic link between the unique art of fashion with the best traditions of the fashion world.

Since 1982, V. M . Zaitsev - artistic director of the fashion house on Prospekt Mira, 21. It was here that he created known far beyond our country's collections of models. Art Zaitseva acquired genuine freedom and virtuosity in the possession of professional tools.

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in any of its collection of Pret-a-Porter and Haute Couture Zaitsev seeks to give people the beauty and joy through the art of creating clothing that, in his opinion, should give people confidence and instill a good mood.

easel art Zaitseva has their own value. His paintings and graphic works - such as an organic part of his work, as well as working as a designer. They express a generalized philosophical concepts, associations, and more - feelings, moods, feelings of the author. For all the originality of art language viewer can feel the emotional significance of each of his works - the confusion and anxiety, pain and joy, excitement and hope.

Paintings and graphic works by Slava Zaitsev decorative, resonant color , are filled with associations and symbols, a complex interweaving of real and unreal, fantasies and life experiences of the artist.

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Works Zaitseva are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of History of Moscow, in museums, galleries and private collections in Russia, the USA, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium and other countries.

exhibition runs until April 25, 2010.

Source: press release of the Russian Academy Arts