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In the paper catalog to the exhibition "No news" Milena Orlova writes: "Looking at these pictures after almost thirty years, it became clear that as a seance, they are an excellent medium for evoking the spirit of the age. To me they seemed the very atmosphere of the Brezhnev accumulated "stagnation" in it, if I may say so, the highest concentration of foreign 70 - 80 - ies.|At that time I did not know|that there are other artistic metaphor, "the Soviet air", other more radical examples of "boring" Aesthetics - stoves and five-storey Mikhail Roginsky, communal Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov Krasikov Street, travel out of town "Collective Action." All this I saw later, with a distance of perception, can not directly identify with these experiences, consider it their own. So I remember the Brezhnev era is the way it is frozen in the painting, in its light version, too docked "Soviet", but retained a metaphysical suggestiveness of everyday life, global feeling that "no news" of this universal boredom. "
I feel a little strange that Milena Orlova unable to create an atmosphere in the memory of those years and proidentifitsirovat it to work Roginsky. I somehow do not have such problems. But since this paper for the catalog, you can not pay attention to such trifles. The most important thing, and Volkov and Roginskii called talented artists, reflects the time. With this I fully agree.