In Panopticon INUTERO (exhibition space in the Design Center ARTPLAY on Yauza (former watch factory "gauge") "adjacent to the winery") opened an exhibition of paintings and ceramics of the St. Petersburg artist Alexander Zadorin "Summer short story ».

• Alexander Zadorin
  Still Life with Watermelon. 1998
  Oil on canvas. 52 x 60
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• Alexander Zadorin porch. 2004
  on canvas, mixed media. 100 x 120
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Alexander Zadorin received a classical Arts Education: Graduated from the Leningrad ÑÕØ them. B. Johannson, successfully graduated from the Department of Ceramics and Glass in LVHPU them. Vera Mukhina (now SPGHPA them. Stieglitz). As a student, he participated in exhibitions, together with their teachers G. Egoshin , Z. Arshakuni, V. Vateninym .

range of the artist's wide attention paid Zadorin decorative sculptural forms of the ceramic layer. One such work, "Puppet Theatre", received an honorary diploma by participating in the contest in the city of Faenza, Italy, in 1974. Since then, his work always represent the country at fairs and competitions, there are publications in journals "Decorative Art", "Creativity", "Neva" and other publications.

• Alexander Zadorin Nu. 2003
  Oil on canvas. 85 x 126
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• Alexander Zadorin New Orleans . 2002
  hardboard and enamel on canvas. 120 x 152
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In 1976 A . Zadorin and his colleagues organized a group of artists and ceramists "One track." Within ten years the group has an annual display of one suit, the principal of the year. Artists sought to prove the right to a new plastic language, peculiar only to ceramics. In those years, in A. Zadorin, a number of monumental works such as "Letar", "Horseman," "Self Portrait", "Man and the Horse", "Sitting," "Vacation," "Family", etc. These activities tend to sculpture, but based on the technological methods of ceramic language (pottery forms, forms the reservoir), and include elements of timber structures - chairs, doors, etc. They brought Zadorin fame not only in Russia but also in other countries.

Since 1990, Alexander Zadorin participates in international symposiums and exhibitions, and conducts master classes at universities in the USA, Finland, Israel, France, Lithuania and Hungary. With the assistance of the porcelain factory. University in St. Petersburg Zadorin created a large series of plastic composition of the figures presented in the biscuit.

• Alexander Zadorin Jazz. 2002
  MDF, enamel, oil. 120 x 140
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• Alexander Zadorin Garmonistka. 2005
  textiles, mixed media. 120 x 100
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last 15 years of creativity of Zadorin dedicates mostly painting.

Most included in the exhibit of works - paintings, created in preparation for its solo exhibition and based on impressions received during military service Cuba in 1970.

In 1997, Alexander Zadorin received a diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts, and in 1998 became the Honored Artist of Russia. "Art is an emanation of the pain and sorrow" - once said of Picasso. "And - joy" - added to Alexander Zadorin.

• Alexander Zadorin black underwear. 2004
  Fibreboard, see the technique. 122 x 80
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works are in State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), State Museum of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg), the All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art (Moscow) State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno (Moscow), State Museum of Ceramics and Barton Kuskovo XVIII Century (Moscow), Omsk Regional Museum of Art (Omsk), the International Museum of Ceramics (Kecskemét, Hungary) in the collection of art galleries of Southampton (England), etc.

exhibition will run until September 28 2010.

Source: press release Panopticon INUTERO