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An inexplicable paradox. In the next topic of several people as a hen chickens defend the "stars" of the "Soviet Nonconformist" from not too well-known artists. I only had to hint at a desperate imitation of two of these "stars", the administration immediately and strictly to label detractors. Generally, with the blessing of the owners of the site, there is a perception that this is our only all of the recent history of art in Russia.

And so opens the exhibition theme of the hero of this movement, the fearless warrior Bulldozer bout, a man who has had personal gas attack a nuclear power, called Leningrad Rabin (and if we continue this comparison, and then Leningrad Solzhenitsyn's painting), the renowned Jura hot and almost no reaction. Total 42 views (4 of them mine) and no response! (Not yet started writing a response) Even full-time owner of a binary rating has not made its sacramental and dogmatic verdict of "Artist of the museum level."

By the way, maybe someone will tell him that you can improve on graduation. For example, enter the title of "Candidate for museum-quality artists, as well as" Artist of the museum-level federal, republican, regional, municipal, etc. "You can add categories. "Artist of the republican values of 1 st, 2 nd, 3rd, etc. categories.

Even sorry for the neighbor on houmlendu. Imagine how much effort was worth the exhibition gallery. Do not even ask about the prices of a brilliant writer's Mihail Herman.
Many good, warm-hearted words about the eminent exhibitors, and at amateur and professional investment in the arts results tending to zero.

I must admit that sometimes praises and glorification are counterproductive, from the desired, results.

Discussed at the Forum in Paris eager to cramps in the groin of Fame polurestavrator, poluakter, poluizdatel arrived in Moscow on perestroika, a friend told reporters: "I'll pay 500 rubles for every note in any newspaper about me, 1000, if it is scandalous, dirty paper, 2000 -- if in Pravda or Izvestia.

I still maintain an interest in the artist frying and put here an excerpt from his contemporaries. The forum is already there were calls for publication of the witnesses, so quickly sinking in the abyss of time, events.

I deliberately did not call and call until the author not to disclose his name by those who know or guess, that a shadow or reflections of the individual writer did not distract us from the substantive content.

Yuri Zharkikh I knew in Russia. Sailor from Kronstadt, a self-taught in art, rather brazenly, to the envy of the St. Petersburg bohemia climbed in Moscow "dipart", the most profitable lionozovsky clan. He quickly snyuhalsya with pusher "Lionozova" Alexander Glaser, and became its permanent supplier of paintings.

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I'm in the basement, he appeared in 68 year. He came to conquer Moscow. Seaman did not know how to draw and did not see color, but who now draws attention to such nonsense?
    Work a lot and taught him the same way I am. Then he showed me the most helpless sketch, where something is portrayed, but that nobody knew, neither he nor I.
    - Make me a dozen of these gizmos in a large amount and butter, all selling to foreigners - I told him.
    Despite the significant professional hole Zharkikh had a rare tenacity in work and a sense of competition. And he did. He made a dozen canvases, however, on curves, improvised stretcher and all the Germans sold for good money. I saw these things in their apartments, they are well behaved in the most dangerous neighborhood of Moscow "stars": Plavinsky, Kalinina, Kharitonov, Zvereva. Of course, there were venomous criticism as Vaska Lamplighter, nicknamed these decorative pictures "a heap of snot, but morjachok fit in the Moscow underground and wanted fame and money thicker.
    Tactics of the St. Petersburg fighter was simple and efficient from the beginning - to give her things, if not sold. For example, an arrogant Mikhail Shvartsman believed that his work will change the face of the world and, consequently, neprodavaemy as icons in the churches.
    My basement Zharkikh quickly left and moved into an apartment AD Gleser, who has assumed the role of the Moscow Art Marchand.
    A vacant lot in 1974 Yuri Zharkikh dressed himself up as a wedding, a black bow tie - Leningrad love street parties. His fellow countryman Evgeny Rukhin not inferior to him in elegant luxury. They beat it, pictures of burned and put in a plot for hooliganism, though, releasing the prisoners in the morning with the desire of creative success.
    For a long time I felt inspired the "dozer performance" of young artists. Note O. J. Rabin ( "Memoirs", 1981) that "the idea of showing pictures in the fresh air came in the bath village Sofrontsevo where I steamed himself with the Petersburg another Rukhin" unconvincing. Experienced artist did not need the money and fame, they constantly dripped on him from 60 years.
    Many years passed. I composed an essay about the "Bulldozer Exhibition", and questioned its members face to face. Most of all tried to highlight the dramatic incident people had nothing to do it, stood peacefully on the sidewalk as witnesses. In 1984, this event was considered an episode, dissident activity, and not the phenomenon of Russian culture, and in 1994, official Russia solemnly recognized the cultural importance of "dozer performance. Anniversary of the highest kind. Exhibitions and banquets in Paris, New York, Moscow. Radio, newspapers, television. For the first time in twenty years, invited me to the Russian ambassador to the soiree. I felt not a bully, and the savior of Moscow, as the hero-Siberian in 41 year.
    National holiday, then there! ..
    Of course, a smooth holiday failed. On the television show in Moscow artists Boruch Steinberg and Leonid Talochkin unanimously agreed that the organizers of the performance were not Rabin, who lives in Paris, and Komar and Melamid, who lives in New York, triggering an outcry adherents of another scheme. In the Russian Embassy in Paris, I met Yuri hot, shepnuvshego in my ear:
- The steam bath Tarusa, between beer and vodka, the idea plenernoy exhibition in Moscow.
    Well, I thought, can be seen in the steam bath is always the fate of the Russian state. I asked him to document the sensational news. Zharkikh sent me a memoir written in bold handwriting hard drunk man. Letter to the naval style with the use of phrases such as "sports company", "fishing net", "coastal home" - although some in the Moscow suburb can be a "bank" and "network"?
    "In Tarusa born and ripened the idea of this exhibition, I remember, we have been puzzled as to entertain the case of Oscar, because This exhibition is almost Oscar (paintings) did not give it the opposite did not understand that the initiative came from me (would sell) and Sashka Gleser (expanded range of artists for his collection), and has long been skeptical up until saw the real list of names on the invitation. Involved in this exhibition, after it ran a bulldozer.
    Hot in here flattened two events have in mind and an exhibition in the Izmailovo Park.
    Oscar Rabin knew that the Soviet government did not forgive him now "Jewish passport, packed in copies of copyright to foreign consumers. Eugene Rukhin baptized into Orthodoxy, but, as Pushkin said: "The Jew baptized, that the thief forgiven. Elskaya, Komar, Melamid, Brusilovsky, Boruch, Glezer not going to be baptized, and constantly pushing at the Great Moscow synagogue. Such a "Zionist Hagan" was fit only to emigrate to Israel, not-Union Exhibition of avant-garde. It must be diluted with the Slavic element, and the emergence of a "real-name list" enterprising sailor and a descendant of the Kuban Cossack was a real boon. Such heroic pawns to plug the gaps in any chess game. Zharkikh received an honorary "sixth" in the list of participants. Mollify Lydia Masterkova, professional high-level, long time did not have to. Her son, a beginner watercolorist Igor Holin going abroad on "the Israeli challenge.
    And things went like clockwork. World fame fighters for freedom of creativity. Queue at the pictures. Diplomats, journalists, graduate students, tourists.
    After my departure abroad Zharkikh immediately moved to my basement and very profitable deftly sold his paintings, using a known address, where buyers were drawn by habit, fall into the hands tightly Leningrad. His political clout was high in those years (1975-79), and in St. Petersburg in general has become "political director" famous dissident exhibitions. In the West, he went at the invitation of a German - an unthinkable event at that time (1979) - and knew that it was not tourism, exile, and prepare for it beforehand, storing pictures, links, patronage. The Germans could not endure the spirit of immigrants. Poles they have mowed the grass, the Turks dug, Jews in the country was not. After inspecting the ruins of the Reichstag and the Berlin wall, Zharkikh went to Paris, where he began to dance with Glaser, from the empty and cold stove "unofficial art". In three years of unreliable dreams on nails "on Chernishevskomu", with the dream of communal happiness, which is absolutely unthinkable in Western terms, he broke with Glaser.
     In Europe, I once again his "brought in people. He made friends with lupastoy Montenegrin, paint bouquets. I often visited them in the Parisian suburb and gave advice to defeat France in an itinerant painters. They bought a truck, beat him and poured paintings exhibition in distant clubs, jobs, dating, money.
    At the lemon Baltic coast, "as he puts it in a letter, place Zharkikh someone has taken in his absence. His exhibition in the Marble Palace St. Petersburg gone unnoticed and museums do not ask the price for the paintings. There remained the winter season in the ski resort of Courchevel, where the Russian monetary tusuetsya know, summer Cote d'Azur, where he sells paintings of beach restaurants and hotels.
    Satiety and unnoticed lives St. Petersburg morjachok Zharkikh in Europe! ..