Today the State Literary Museum opens exhibition in the center of which - Igor Holin poem "The Steppe" and the one to whom it is dedicated, - artist VY Sitnikov. The exhibition - works of artists of the sixties from the collection of Michael Al

State Literary Museum,
September 26 - November 1, 2012
Moscow Trubnikovsky per., 17

Today the State Literary Museum presents "" Steppe ". Book-installation, or book-environment », representing the works of artists of the sixties from the collection of Michael Alshibaya.

... won
gone the basement
covered his box
overgrown with moss
grinned laughing
, and died a monk
say things were:
in a backpack - relics
Henry Sapgir . "The Firebird." 1995

Valentin Vorobiev Portrait of Igor Holin. 1972 Source: goslitmuz.ru

In 2005, the State Literary Museum an exhibition of "The Firebird" is a "visualization" of the poem by Henry Sapgir using products from my collection and the collections of my friends. New art-form exposition I have mentioned the book-installation. As far as I know, neither before nor after the exhibition "The Firebird" no recourse to such "supply" of a literary work. One event, one book - it may have an accident. Two books - is a series, a small library, and I decided to repeat the experience of creating an installed book. Poem of Henry Sapgir "Firebird" is dedicated to the memory of deceased artists of the sixties. This time I "visualize" in the same way a poem Igor Holin "Steppe", dedicated to the artist Vasily Sitnikov Yakovlevich - only one of the characters of the poem Sapgir. In addition, two "books" linked pictures that are included in both projects: a portrait of Igor Holin, made B. Vorobiev in 1972, and the work of VY Sitnikov "Steppe" 1948. Poem of choline - a remarkable work of Russian poetry 60 years of the twentieth century, but it is completely unknown to a wide reading public, and the majority of scholars, it is not the text on the Internet, it has never been truly published. Only publication - the author's book Victor Hoppe, published in 1997 in the amount of 15 copies.

Lesson . Nude. 1950 Source: goslitmuz.ru

lesson. Portrait of J. Sitnikov. 1950 Source: goslitmuz.ru

image of the endless steppe - an important theme in the works of J. Sitnikov. He created a series of works with the same name in different techniques. On the back of one of the "cardboard boxes" with the image steppe is inscribed by the artist, which indicates that the image of the artist saw steppe metaphor of his own life, unknown and uncertain future, spread before him. This image of the more impressive that it was created by the artist, who was looking at the world through prison bars is then out of the window a psychiatric hospital, from his cluttered with art and living room in Malaya Lubyanka. Later, in a small New York apartment, which Henry Sapgir figuratively calls the "vault", cluttered like Moscow housing, showing that in psychiatry called "hording" senseless hoarding, it is obviously also saw this boundless steppe. The contrast of "local" and "infinite", as in the paintings of Breughel and Velazquez - one of the main motives of creativity VY Sitnikov, and every great artist. It is shown in this wonderful poem choline. This installation, which I call in the end the "book-environment», book-environment, as it recreates the atmosphere of the space in which there VY Sitnikov. Of "local" closed world he saw the boundless space of life, sometimes hovering over them hazy sun, sometimes - in the dark.

Michael Alshibaya, 2012

Source : goslitmuz.ru