ANATOLIY Slepyshev Dogs and church. 2003
Oil on canvas. 90 × 50
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ANATOLIY Slepyshev Judith. 1989
Oil on canvas. 80 × 100
Source : Press Release " Open Club »

Gallery "Open Club" from March 13, 2014
ul. Spiridonovka 9/2

Today Gallery " Open Club" opens exhibition of works Anatolia Slepysheva « space and color ».

Slepysheva Anastasia , daughter of the artist : Born Slepyshev village Lopatino Penza Region 3 July 1932 . I do not know why he decided to become an artist, no one in his family was engaged art . It seems that he went to law school , but said that was very interesting , and he threw it away. Then studied at Nizhnetagilskom School of Industrial Art . Served in the Army .

In 1958 arrives in Moscow, where he arrives in Moscow State Art Institute named after VI Surikov . Learns from Deineki . One day while watching the students work Dejneka said that , here , all of you be forgotten , my mosaic forget , I forget, and will Slepyshev ... And episode about Surikov Institute : was their student, gloomy and uncommunicative , so gloomy, that in the hostel , the side of a light bulb that has been turned over to his bed , painted in black. Actually, it was not very fun time , the Soviet government was pressing and Slepysheva not allowed to write diploma - kicked as he laughs, " for lack of talent ," and I suspect that for directory browsing any good Western artists and freethinking. "I am happy that at the Surikov Institute wrote a diploma year would suffer, write this stuff and hack , and so I was educated , and suffered minimal !»

I'm not sure , while studying at the institute whether or immediately after , he married my mom , art historian Helen Shunkov , daughter of the famous historian Victor Ivanovich Shunkov . I think that familiarity with my mom and her family played a very important role in the fate Slepysheva as an artist. Grandfather was well acquainted with many interesting people in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Communicating with Arthur Fonvizin , talented watercolorist , familiarity with his work made ​​a strong impression on his father. "I consider him my teacher." I also want to mention the St. Petersburg artist Basmanova , student Malevich . "They all wrote a medium-sized picture size to be able to hide in the table , the Soviet authorities did not give talented artists to turn , and I began to write as they like , any such genre scenes , but only a giant-sized , two to three meters ...»

Daddy's workshop near the GUM . Piece of the former church . Published " Workshop" - and immediately felt the smell of oil paint and oil diluent. Before the eyes of the palette with large nipples. Large windows. Became chilly in winter are horrible muzzle . Remove outer clothing was not necessary. When I was in art school in the seventh grade , Dad organized us children , visits to artists' studios . We were at Kabakov Ilya I. , at Ratner , at ... Well and Slepysheva . With children he was able to communicate very interesting talking about paintings, which is affectionately called " pictures ". The story about his " image " , " Anna Akhmatova " still makes me spasm in her throat. By the way , it is necessary to mention that the poems Akhmatova , he ( the Pope ) knew and learned to love thanks to my grandmother , Tatyana Mikhailovna Shunkov that they typed on a typewriter and kept . In this collection it was "Requiem" product , which is devoted to my father's painting " Anna Akhmatova ." In the foreground, the broad strokes of a female figure , curled up in a big black lump. Next - the crucifixion , and the distance a group of people carrying away the ladder . "Mother's bottomless grief , no one can quench . Son was killed . He died , and nothing can be changed . And leave indifferent artists ».

departure to Paris . Prior to that father had been abroad . In Paris and in Germany. But then we went to stay. " I'm never going to leave forever. Just an opportunity to see how people live there than there breathe artists . Always wanted to see maybe a little bit and come back to live . The artist can not be reduced to little world , he must have a wide horizon ».

And somehow in Paris with his father all came together . We lived not so much on a grand scale , but as he said, on a bottle of wine and a piece of Camembert is always missing . But here , I remember that he was impressed that the USSR was not exposed because they considered a dissident and galleries in Paris , working with Russian artists did not want to expose him because he is not a dissident ... But he was the first Russian artist, whose put in the French National Assembly. But because his father came to Paris already established man , he could not settle down there . Then , well, let's say, metaphysically Paris was more distant from Russia than it is now . Russian there were not so many , the Internet was not available to us . Slepyshev - very Russian artist, he lacked the birches , native wildlife , and he longed . And then I began to travel frequently to Moscow , come and praise , as there is wonderful , and then left at all. And dad back. His return to Moscow was a triumph . We can say that it just wore on his hands and galleries were honored his stand . But here his workshop he had . Some murky story , someone at the studio Slepysheva while he was in Paris, led . At one time he worked for the New Arbat Street , in a room with huge windows , storefronts , on the ground floor . Another person it would be embarrassing - to work like this , ostentation : the street people were walking in front of the windows stayed and watched . The other, but not Slepysheva . " I do not care at all I wanted! " I asked him , if he does not regret that he returned to Russia . He said something that I have quoted above , about the fact that it is not going to leave forever and that his curiosity satisfied . " The artist is good to live in the homeland , but have the freedom and the opportunity to travel around the world , watch museums, expand their horizons . All this is available for me . And what else do I need ? Smear, smudge and smear ».

Source : openklub.ru