Tomorrow, November 30 at 18.00 in the Gallery "Cinema" will be a presentation of the book "Introduction to the inevitable" devoted to the life and work of artist Sergei Alferov (1951-2004). 1 December of the same name opens an exhibit

• Sergei Alferov
  England. Date. 1990
  Mixed media on paper. 61 x 86
  Source: private collection
• Sergei Alferov
  From "The Essence". 1974
  Mixed media on paper. 66 x 69
  Source: private collection

Tomorrow, 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). 1 December of the same name opens an exhibition of his graphics and paintings. The exhibition will feature approximately 40 works by a remarkable, lyrical and ironic nonconformist artists from private collections. They give an idea about almost all stages of the artist's career. Audience will see (for the most part, the first time) works from private collections and get acquainted with the series, for which the author himself "broke" their creativity: "Message", "Essence", "Eternity," "Flowers," "Signs", "Tower "," Fish, "" The Birds "," Great, "" Windmill "," Butterfly "," Houses, "" Signs of Destiny "," Turtles, "" Giraffes »...

This is a complex, controversial and adored by all around him the artist is devoted only to that which was published a unique book "Introduction to the inevitable." It was prepared by the curators of the project - Lyusine Petrosyan and Anna Morev.

For fifty-three years of life (1951-2004), of which more than thirty were given creativity (he first exhibited in 1974 at the famous "exhibition in the open air" in the Izmailovo Forest Park), Sergei Alferov spent only 3 "personalki. Present in the gallery "Cinema" - the fourth and the first post-mortem.

• Sergei Alferov
  From the series "Great»
  Mixed media on paper. 101 x 73
  Source: private collection
• Sergey Alferov
  Man. 1987
  Mixed media on paper. 86 x 61
  Source: private collection

book "Introduction for the inevitable "can be called a directory, and you can book of memoirs, memoirs. There are a lot of work Alferov - all his major series, as well as poignant words of those who knew him and in his home and not too much for him welcoming Tashkent, and more encouraging, but still not very friendly Moscow. More than 20 essays, about the time of Alferov and myself. " Among the authors of the names of friends, colleagues and associates: Beach , Katya Medvedeva , Sergei Bordachev , Vladimir Tryamkina , Larissa Pyatnitskaya Igor Dudinsk, daughter Anastasia Alferov, widow Olga Burakova, art critic Valery Turchin.

Doctor of Fine Arts, Valery Turchin so began his article: "There is a lovely art in the world, causing - do not know why - trust. It seems that chamber, but not quite. Ironic and lyric. And the irony and poetry, as we know, are interrelated. Irony clears a place for poetry - as in this case, the inescapable yearning for something unknown. Desired, but it is unclear ... The art of Sergei Alferov all - a cipher symbol. What this does is claimed. We are tired of ease - and human relations, and artistic tastes. For quality of food needed a pinch of salt - and the irony of the lyrics. This here in abundance. East capriciously intermingled with the West. Children directly with professional delights ».

way, fine art articles in this book is no more. This art is still too close to us, literally at arm's length. Witnesses may be touched by hand. Talk to them. So while we're at the stage of accumulation of information about this period, its operating entities. Until needed only memories. Analysis time will come later.

• Sergei Alferov
  blizzard outside. 1988
  Mixed media on paper. 86 x 61
  Source: private collection
• Sergei Alferov
  ball flew away. 1990
  Mixed media on paper. 100 x 75
  Source: private collection

... In the first shmutstitule album drafters have placed this work Alferov, a series of "Message". In a white paper box in a black cylinder with rounded corners - the text, as if written in crayon: "Bad weather. Very bad weather ... just nasty weather! .. Trash, NOT WEATHER! Disgusting!? ! ______ And perhaps it is at least a bit variable, and? »

exhibition will run until December 10, 2010.

Dmitry Butkevich , art,
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More about the book and exhibition "Preface to the inevitable" can be read here . - AI .