Exhibition of works 1960-х years called "Disegnare", that is, exhibited works made by Mikhail Shemyakin before his exile in 1971

DONGNANYA. Shemyakin. Leningrad. Sixtieth
Center Mikhail Shemyakin. Until may 6 2018
St.-Петербург, Sadovaya, 11

It is now Shemyakin — Victor, one of the most important and expensive artists of the postwar unofficial art. And his period of "dongnanya" in 1960-х — is poverty and disorder, the work of the postman, the loader, breakdowns and psychiatric hospitals. But on the other hand, the same sixtieth — is also a creative lift, work on edge discoveries in the field of metaphysical synthetism, a group of "Petersburg", the first exhibition to their own track, fetid, but these carcasses from the market, hanging from the ceiling.

We know pretty bad early Shemyakin. Everyone is used to his vivid figurative theatre works, Hoffmann, the Nutcracker, Venetian masquerades — to the Luggage and to the artist's works, which were made after the fall of the iron curtain. But in his sixties in the inhospitable Soviet Union appeared powerful, charged things.

exhibition which was held in the Fund Shemyakin, the organizers brought together about 50 works by Mikhail Shemyakin 1960-х years from private collections. Presents paintings and drawings from the famous St. Petersburg meeting Loginova, Besobrasova, Chudnovsky, Berezovsky etc. in addition, visitors will see photographs taken by Mikhail Shemyakin in Leningrad in 1960-х years.

Sources: mihfond.ru, tvkultura.ru