The exposition is devoted to the work of the famous Soviet architect, painter, designer and illustrator Boris Smirnov

Today, October 6, in "Galeev Gallery launches its exhibition" Boris Smirnov (1903-1986): architect, designer, graphic artist ».

The exhibition opens up new facets of the talent of the famous artist of the Soviet glass and ceramics Boris Alexandrovich Smirnov . Several years ago, one of the projects "Galeev Galleries" was dedicated to his photo art 1930-40's - that part of his work, which prompted the famous art critic, AD Borowski called the Smirnov premature conceptualist. In the history of art is so often the case: the artist "prescribed" one shop, forgetting or not noticing that he is talented in others, just as the actor uses in a day success Role: Actor-actor-villain or a hero ...

• Boris Smirnov The ruins of the temple in the same town. 1929
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graduate architectural faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts, a graduate of Fomin, G. Kosyakova and D. Munz, Smirnov has achieved fame as a practitioner, having built behind the objects come under fierce criticism in 1936, during a discussion of the article "The cacophony of architecture "in the newspaper Pravda. Cinema, built on his project in the city of Bryansk (1932), and to this day is included in the register of monuments of national constructivism.

excommunicated architecture for their "shtukarstva" and "tryukachestva" (from lexicon print at the time), Smirnov, like many of his colleagues - "forced exile, where he worked have: designed obstetric beds, spectator seating for cinemas, has developed" a new method for calculating the curves appear to stadiums. " Parallel Smirnov worked as a book and magazine graphics. They had created a lot of covers and illustrations for private (at the time of the NEP) and the state publishing houses. Customer list is diverse: Academia, Goslitizdat, Glavsevmorput, Gosstroiizdat and even exotic "Trust plants a weak current. In the famous Leningrad Detgiz, along with the work of an illustrator in the magazines "Siskin" and "Hedgehog", he happened to design letterheads and logos of these publications (1930).

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Earlier, at the finish of the NEP, Smirnov has successfully developed a corporate identity for a number of organizations (JSC "Metallography", "Experiment-film"). The art of creating a logo, brand name, Smirnov mastered by necessity, but this experience has played a role in its further evolution.

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academic figure - an area of knowledge and skills that are necessary and sufficient condition for the practicing artist. Since mid-1920 Smirnov, drawing, constantly altering his style, revealing a new level of understanding of the painter. This fundamental training him in good stead after the war, during the formation of the Soviet school of art glass, the "father" which, according to current opinion, Smirnov is.

Smirnov - architect, painter, designer, illustrator and now, to sum up: the designer (if such a term was not yet) - that is the subject of the exhibition in "Galeev Gallery, which opens to the public yet another name from the art history of pre-war period. The exhibition is an album of works by BA Smirnova from the archives of the artist's family.

exhibition will run until December 1, 2010.

Source: Press Release "Galeev Galleries»