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Sergei Alferov reinterpreted Napoleon
The exhibition "Izomifologiya" at the Museum of Modern Art is full of unexpected angles
In the year of the bicentenary of the Battle of Borodino Russian-French theme has become must-see destination in the publishing and museum programs. But hardly anyone has responded to the anniversary of the so-directly unexpectedly as the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition "Izomifologiya" shows portraits of Napoleon completely unexpected. It's more of a pirate of the "Doctor Aybolita" than the chief of the Grand Army. Now, is that the commander after a brutal defeat.
Exhibition Sergei Alferov (1951-2004) is full of unexpected angles, violent neighborhoods colors and combinations of forms, this is not always mixed stand eye victims of socialist realism.
A native of Tashkent (his grandfather was a geologist came here from St. Petersburg, one of the ancestors of Alferov helped build Voronikhin Kazan Cathedral), he studied in the city of Chirchik, and then at the Art School of the Uzbek capital. The ambiance was creative - the father of one of his closest friends at the time was friends with oberiutov knew by heart many poems nonprinting then Kharms and Vvedensky (Alferov and he was fond of poetry at first), generally in Tashkent after the war left many metropolitan intellectuals.
At age 21, Alferov went to Moscow, where life begins formal outsider. His independent style vystavkomam not like, it is rarely invited to take part in collective exhibitions. But valued nonconformist: Alferov participated in the famous "bulldozer" exhibition in Moscow's Belyaevo September 15, 1974, when the exposure in the open "closed" came watering machines and bulldozers, and in the expositions of the capital City of graphs.
The first solo exhibition Alferov was already in the late perestroika. It was called just "1812" and was dedicated to the African campaigns of Napoleon. One of the main acts of the emperor-Corsican artist considered the second discovery in Egypt.
Alferov traveled, went all the Pamirs. Do not draw landscapes, and "the world in general." "Flowers", "Butterfly", "Shaman", "Tower", "The Birds" - the title of his series on display now at Petrovka. World Wind is felt in its schedule and gouache (little pictures), the philosophy of the East has defined his thinking.
For retrospective curator Lyusine Petrosyan selected 200 works, give them the third floor of the museum at Petrovka. Here - all Alferov, with its constant search for forms, addiction to the primitive, a change of style, it leads to the African brilliance, then the aesthetics of children's drawings, as in the series "Signs of Destiny" or in the "Tree of Life" (1989). Or in a series of colorful giraffes, seen by the artist is a child.
The current show - perhaps the most complete in his biography. "Izomifologiya" shows the main stages of work, the most important series of the "message" and "Fish" to "essence" and "Eternity."
There are names known in narrow circles. Perhaps this is the best recommendation. Taste fellow professionals interesting taste of the streets. Memories of friends, artists, and collectors in the album "Preface to the inevitable" - the little that is written about Alferov. Read avidly.
He - "the artist for his" self-willed, not placed in a frame. It is difficult to determine: which group that over the course? Gallerists such fear, they do not "sell" the public (although highly valued collectors Alferov).
Alferov eternity itself caught up in strange circumstances. The cause of his death is still unknown. Body was found at the bus stop, it lay there half a day. The origin of a pool of blood near the head and remains unsolved: fall? hit?
On the tragic finale mention everyone who writes about Alferov. But looking at the total energy that knows no external borders art is hard to believe that the biography of the author still has some value.
The exhibition will run until September 30.
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