From 19 December to 8 January in the exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of ARTS on Prechistenka the exhibition will be paintings and graphic works of Boris Messerer Asafovich — portraits, landscapes, still lifes, abstract compositions etc. — a total of about 100 works

Exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of arts
19 Dec 2017 — 8 Jan 2018
Moscow, Prechistenka str., 21

the name of the famous set designer Boris Messerer is well known far beyond the borders of our country. He is the author of the artistic solution to more than 150 Opera, ballet and drama performances, most of which have become classics of Russian art. Boris Messerer with the same success draws Opera and ballet, drama and Comedy. An artist with a creative and innovative scenographic bold in their decisions, which is especially evident in his work on the ballet performances that brought master a wide recognition. Many of them have been shown in Europe, America, Japan. He worked in the largest theatres of our country, collaborated with well-known Directors of our time.

Genuine theatricality, sense of style, the wealth of expressive means, high culture and erudition are the characteristic features of the personality of the artist. Talent Messerer has always been aimed at strengthening the expressiveness of the images, the denial of daily life and illustrative. Master every time created its own special plastic image of the play, acting simultaneously as an architect, as an installer and as a graph.

a Unique talent Messerer, a man of powerful creative temperament, and his desire for universality is manifested in different fields of fine arts: in the theatre-декорационном art and painting, graphics, design, monumental art, sculpture and architecture.

Boris Messerer is endowed with the rare gift of transformation things to a theatrical performance. He uses a variety of means figurative expression — from the genuine thing up to various forms of easel art. According to the author, the use of scenography of expressive possibilities of easel painting gives a new sound, a new sense of theatrical spectacle. Often the most ordinary mundane things take in the scenery of the author's symbolic expression.

Paintings and drawings Messerer akin to the theater. The artist brings the features of the theatre thinking — constructivism, special spatial solutions — in easel art. The exhibition is incredibly diverse in its composition. Of undoubted interest as a distinguishing, a variety of plastic and color scheme paintings from the series "Ballerina" and colored etchings from the series "dancing in the retro style" and urban landscapes from the series "the Baltic States", "Svaneti", "Bukhara". Beautiful compositions with decorative and theatrical objects and the world — gramophones, samovars, bottles, irons, old oil lamps, chairs and other objects — inherent acute rhythmic system, the artist gives them a "big plan", emphasizing the solidity, strength, constructiveness and beauty of the subject.

Boris Messerer enthusiastically engaged in easelgraphics, in particular by etching. He designed a unique machine that enables the creation of large-format sheets, which enhances the decorative element graphic works. The artist has also developed a unique technique of printing multilayer color etchings with subtle color palette and unique architecture. In these works, the wizard seeks to reveal the deep essence and nature of things, their harmony, giving familiar and mundane of subjects with a certain spirituality and refined expressiveness. The author is fluent in various graphic techniques: the exhibition features colored etchings of the series "Composition with saws", abstract compositions etc. charcoal Drawings "White nights" dedicated to Saint-Петербургу. Watercolor made cityscapes of Rome, Yalta, Tarusa, Vologda, and still life paintings with flower arrangements.

Installation Messerer is one more step in the development of the spatial arts. The creation of these complex, multi-scale structures contributed to the desire of the artist to realize their creative plans in the field of architecture, design and monumental art. For many years he enthusiastically worked on a real embodiment of the idea of synthesis of arts.

the least important area of creative activities of B. A. Messerer is the exhibition design. He is the author of concepts and art-пространственных solutions to more than 30 prestigious exhibitions in the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin, Central exhibition hall "Manege", State historical Museum and others.

the Exhibition allows us to appreciate the scale of the talent of Boris Messerer, his artistic nature, to feel the spirit of innovation, daring experiment, which has always distinguished the work of this brilliant and original artist.

Source: rah.ru