Nov. 30 at the gallery "Cinema" will be a presentation of a book on the life and work of artist Sergei Alferov (1951-2004). Dec. 1 to open an exhibition of his graphic works and paintings

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• Sergei Alferov
  From a series of "Message". 1986
  Mixed media on paper. 100 x 75,
  Oil on canvas. 49.5 x 61,3
  Source: private collection

30 November at 18.00 in the gallery of "Cinema" (Big Rzhevskii lane., 8) will be a presentation of the book "Introduction to the inevitable" devoted to the life and work of the artist Sergei Alferov (1951-2004). Dec. 1 to open an exhibition of graphic works and paintings, which are introduced with almost all phases of the artist's career, search, and open, plunge in the range of his artistic passions.

• Sergei Alferov
  Portrait. 2002
  Mixed media on paper. 100 x 75
  Source: private collection
• Sergei Alferov
  From "The towers". 2003
  Mixed media. 100 x 70
  Oil on canvas. 49.5 x 61,3
  Source: private collection

In the book "Introduction to the inevitable" became artistic studies Valery Turchin, memoirs of contemporaries, and like-minded artists circle Sergei Alferov - Igor Dudinsk, Artem Kirakosova, Sergei Bordachev , Igor Kislitsyna , Vladimir Tryamkina , Andrew Basantsa, Alexandra Lisowski , Yuri Pliss , Katya Medvedeva , Ivan Akhmet'ev, Larissa Pyatnitskaya, Boris Beach , Nina Shcherbakova, Dmitri Ionov, Volodymyr Jha Guzman, Alexandra Kedrin, daughter of the artist Anastasia Alferov and his widow, Olga Burakova.

book contains 140 color reproductions and photographs from the archives of the wizard.

first solo exhibitions S. Alferov refer to 1980-90-m, but in Moscow's artistic community and his name became well known since the mid-1970 .

• SERGEI ALFEROV
  Babai. 1978
  Mixed media on paper. 86 x 61
  Oil on canvas. 49.5 x 61,3
  Source: private collection
• Sergei Alferov
  gull. 1980
  Mixed media on paper. 102 x 77
  Oil on canvas. 49.5 x 61,3
  Source: private collection

He was born in 1951 in Tashkent, in Russian family. Entered the local art college, but the aesthetic differences with the teachers forced him to leave teaching. In 1973, Alferov moved to Moscow and immediately fell on Wednesday nonconformist artists, his work began to actively acquire Soviet and foreign collectors of contemporary art.

• Sergei Alferov
  Series "Clowns»
  Mixed media on paper. 86 x 61
  Source: private collection
• Sergei Alferov
  Series "Giraffe". 2002
  Mixed media on paper. 100 x 73
  Oil on canvas. 49.5 x 61,3
  Source: private collection

Alferov took part in the Izmailovo Vernissage in the open air, and in exhibitions at the Small Georgian, 28, and many other alternative art shows. Not accidentally V. Turchin, drawing a parallel between the creative artist and search for other members of the so-called other art , titled his article "Another experience Sergei Alferov. Virtually all non-conformists unite the spirit of experimentation, the free circulation with a wide range of styles and traditions, the presence, along with individual mythology, a distinct stylistic and imaginative community. Significant role in shaping Sergei Alferov - and as a person and as an artist - played his friendship with the brightest representative of unofficial art in those years - Anatoly Zverev . Both artists will of fate often lived under one roof and worked side by side, exchanging creative ideas.

• Sergei Alferov
  From the series "Fish". 2004
  Mixed media on paper. 100 x 70
  Source: private collection
• Sergei Alferov
  From "The Birds". 2002
  Mixed media on paper. 100 x 75
  Source: private collection

Sergei Alferov seriously studies the world, especially the eastern, philosophy and metaphysics, which could not affect his work. The main interest of the artist showed the traditions of Oriental art, acute expression and expression of African masks, the classics of European art at the beginning of the twentieth century, especially Dada, with its immediacy and a focus on "childishness».

• Sergei Alferov
  War. 2000-e
  Mixed media on paper. 100 x 65
  Source: private collection
• Sergei Alferov
  Meditation. 1980
  Mixed media on paper. 108 x 72,5
  Source: private collection

Life artist tragically cut short in 2004 when interest in his work reached its apogee. At age 53 he was tragically killed on the street "in unexplained circumstances».

Project "Preface to the inevitable" prepared by the curators Lyusine Petrosyan and Anna Morev, strive to preserve and promote the artistic heritage Sergei Alferov. The exhibition features works from private collections. Some of them are for sale.

Works Sergei Alferov are MMSI (Moscow Museum of Modern Art), Museum of the Underground USA, as well as other domestic and foreign museums, galleries, private and corporate meetings.

exhibition will run until December 10, 2010.

AI thanks Lyusine Petrosyan for his help in preparing the material.

Source: gallerykino.ru