After graduating from college while working in the restoration workshops, giving lessons in drawing and painting, the English language.
Above my things work at home. This time, small-format works, they were presented at a solo exhibition at the Institute for Physical Problems in 1965 (Series "The Master and Margarita", "Trumpeters, members of the city" and others).
From 1968 to 1975, the artist has served as editor of one of the departments of the journal CI USSR.
In 1973 personal exhibition in the Art Salon Lilac Blvd. Here were shown canvases "Tower of Babel", "suburb", "Beauty in the mirror", "Jewish Wedding" (oil on wood) and others.
Since the early '70s years before the filing of documents to leave the USSR, the artist works in a workshop in Pechatnikovom Lane.
There were created a series of drawings on canvas and sculptures on the theme: "The Prodigal Son", "Concert", "In the Studio", "Beach", "Figures in a Landscape", "Trumpeters", "The Apostles", "sailor and damn," "hanging".
In 1978, the decision to leave the country, the artist leaves his work in the USSR and the CI, who stayed at the same time without the studio, working in a friendly workshop provided Petrova over the series of cartons "Blankets", "emergent", a series of still lifes "Fish" series of assemblage "emergent."
January 1979 - departure from the USSR.
In Vienna, the artist continues to anchor. Created during this period a series of "Screens", "Spin", "Carrying the Cross" were shown in solo exhibition in May 1979
Since 1980. artist lives and works in Paris. A series of "Landscape" and "table", written in the studio in Montparnasse, were exhibited in the gallery "Art et décoration.
1980 - participated in the Biennial of graphic works in Touquet - gold medal.
Exhibiting at the gallery "Le Point" Galerie d'Art Moderne in Monte Carlo.
In the exhibition galleries ACAP (Toquet).
Since 1982, the artist works with the Swedish theater "Sharazad (sets and costumes) on the staging of plays:" Doctor Dapertutto "," Robinson Crusoe syndrome "- a play Al. Khvostenko.
Does the scenery and costumes for the operetta "Cage virgins" in Karmitate (Sweden), the opera-ballet "Puppet Show" - The Royal Opera in Stockholm, the opera by Hans Werner Heinz, British cats.
At the same time in the studio created a series of works "divers", "Bathers". Exhibition in Vadene "In anticipation of Charlotte Corday" (in 1988 out of the book with the same name).
The exhibition in Cologne - a series of "The Abduction of Europe".
In 1991, the artist receives a studio in the town of artists "at the Butte-Chaumont. It created a series of "sitting" (exhibition in Strasbourg, 1991), "Travels" (exhibition in Meluzov 1993).
"Moving," "Marathon," "head" - painting and sculpture.
Exhibition in 2000 - "The rulers, their poets, and his mistress."
A series of "Interiors", "Good morning", "Cameras."
Reliefs "City Wall".
2002 Retrospective exhibition in St. Petersburg. Russian Museum.
2003-2005. Work on the "house" and "species" - a concept of projects in the book "Four of the project" 2006 edition.
2006 Series "Windows" and "Diamonds" - the last of the artist.
Father Aramayis Mikhailovich, a journalist, arrested in 1938 for several months before the birth of the artist. He died in the gulag.
Mother, Serafima Teodorovna, pediatrician, in recent years was in charge of the advisory Morozovska Polyclinic Hospital.
Site
http://www.serge-essaian.com/__1041u...__1103_640.htm
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From the forum (many thanks Liane)
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=1275