Alexander Kuzkin. This is White. It's Black
Today in the MMSI starts first with the 1985 retrospective of Alexander Kuz'kina
MMSI, May 13 - June 12, 2011
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Petrovka 25) and the gallery G.O.S.T "represent project" Alexander Kuzkin. This is White. This is Black "- the first retrospective exhibition of the artist since 1985. The aim of the project - to demonstrate creativity universalism master, who worked as a designer of books, illustrator, promgrafik, poster artist, studied painting, easel painting and printmaking, photography.
first part of the exhibition presents drawings, including both the easel, and print graphics. Kuzkin Alexander (1950-1983) studied at the graphic department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, which is famous for remarkably free creative spirit. Despite the fact that the artist is engaged in industrial graphics, it is a lot of time to figure technique and culture lines.
next part of the exhibition demonstrates the development of books and two books that the author thought of as separate objects. Such seemingly technical matter, as the design of the book, Alexander Kuz'kin came with an amazing imagination. He invented the subject, not just decorate it. That is not engaged in design books, and its design. In a sense, he was one of the founders of the mail-art in Russia. Combining this type of modern art and book design, Alexander has created a draft edition of Goethe's "Sorrows of Young Werther." Certain parts of the book shown at the exhibition represent the letters that the reader was supposed to receive in the mail within a certain time.
second well-known book-object Kuz'kina - "Requiem" by Anna Akhmatova. It consists of a series of lithographs of poetry in the style of Chinese codes. Alexander Kuz'kin created this project for the International Exhibition of art books in Germany in 1982, when the "Requiem" was still a little gap in literature and not published in full. The exhibition shows a layout of the book, restored the master's son, Andrew Kuzkin, a famous contemporary artist, winner of the award "Innovation" in 2009.
The exhibition will also present posters Kuz'kina. With a dramaturgical instinct, he managed to become a talented poster. His graphic language in this genre was new and completely individual.
Featured in the exhibition later work Kuz'kina different embodiment of abstract and bold creative idea. Such art in the early eighties was still a provocative and isolated artists who experimented freely, without self-censorship is a creative range. 
