Sculptor Igor Shelkovskiy exhibition "The Persistence of Change" on Ostozhenke

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In the Multimedia Art Museum until February 9 last retrospective exhibition "The Persistence of change » (http://mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/igor-chelkovski/) semidesyatnik Igor Shelkovsky . Many people know and remember him as the publisher of the famous magazine " A to Z " - unreleased in France since 1979, the magazine about contemporary art , including about unofficial art in the Soviet Union . The project was timely, important and resonant. The collection Kizevaltera " These strange seventies " Shelkovskiy recalled that with the second issue had to be printed in the magazine mock disclaimer : " The materials of the authors who are in the USSR , are printed without their knowledge ." It was awkward , but at least some way to formally protect artists from the claims of the authorities. But such claims were . For example, the artist Sergei Shablavin , recalls that after the first two rooms with their materials, it was a few years removed from the Municipal Committee of graphs. But that was then .

And in the early sixties Shelkovskiy - young graduate school named in 1905 , dabbled in expressionism (later , after the discovery of a sculpture, it is these paintings gave away ) . Circle of friends and associates - DAPrigov , Boris Orlov , Rostislav Lebedev, Alexander Kosolapov , Sergei Yesayan . In the seventies - workshop on Sretenke . Passion for wood - the good people of the starting material was discarded in abundance. Apartment exhibitions , informal competitive process , the competition of ideas. Hardly the first buyer in the Shelkovskiy sculpture - Costacis who " knew that among the unofficial artists must be even and the sculptor ." In 1976 - emigration to ABCP and move to France . There - opportunity to fully engage in creative , rural workshop in a former monastery of the Templars, and a year - beginning work on " A to Z ".