Mikhail Shemyakin - 70 years!

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Mikhail Shemyakin, "Bring trash, tied with rope - here's a contemporary art»

May 4 marks 70 years of Mikhail Shemyakin. On the eve of the anniversary of the artist in his castle Shamusso visited the Paris correspondent of "Cultures».

Culture: 70 years for the artist - is not over yet, and not even twilight?

Shemyakin: «Creativity - said Ascension - is adolescence." Here I am in the adolescent age (laughs). I sang my favorite Mark Bernes, "The most sonorous song is not sung, the best girl, where are you? Still to come is still to come. " I live in his song.

Culture: For the songs and the girls need to be in top physical shape.

Shemyakin: Every morning, take cold shower in the evening I drive a bike for 30-40 miles and lead, but not monastic, but obviously meatless lifestyle. It is said to look young, have little sleep and little to eat. By the same person I was a non-smoker and non-drinker. In my house dry.

Culture: What was the most important thing in your life?

Shemyakin: The expulsion of the Soviet Union, life in France and in America finally return. I will continue to work for Russia - for that I am, in fact, and created. Home did not choose, serve her.

Culture: How can you be proud of?

Shemyakin: the constant search for self and the new in art. Therefore, changes in the work of think is one of his major achievements. I am proud of the fact that we need people who love and understand the serious art. And believe that sooner or later it will win.

Culture: Well, your biggest disappointment?

Shemyakin: This creative person - if it is not narcissistic dolt - constantly experiencing frustration. They have an incentive, a leading master forward.

Culture: How about to celebrate an anniversary?

Shemyakin: The show "The sidewalks of Paris" in Russian museum, it opens on May 29. Another will be held in New York gallery «Mimi Ferzt». The fall in the series "Vanguard on the Neva River" will be released my book "Circle of Shemyakin» Friends - philosophers, musicians, poets, artists.

Culture: What place do you rank yourself in the history of Russian art?

Shemyakin: Most real recognition comes when an artist writes of being in another dimension. I remember in my time, it is important to art historian Kate Tar said: "Shemyakin in the future we can not accept." Then I pondered whether I wanted to get back with the artists, which she took with you. Then he remembered that in the Soviet Union in one of the interviews I was shaking by the scruff of the KGB officer, shouting: "There are snakes, like you, in the future we will not allow." And I thought, "God, how it looks!»

[FONT="Georgia"] The full interview Yuri Kovalenko read