Viktor Pivovarov. Love the agent. - Moscow: New Literary Review, 2001. - 288 pp., Ill.
Viktor Pivovarov. Gray Notebook. - Moscow: New Literary Review, 2002. - 384 pp., Ill.
Viktor Pivovarov - a wonderful artist. Some know him for the wonderful pictures of children's books, for example, andersenovskomu "Ole" and "Black Hen" Pogorelsky made yet in the 70 years and have become classics of the national picture. Many of us grew up on them. For others, Pivovarov - especially one of the founders, along with Ilya Kabakov, Eric Bulatov and Vladimir Yankilevsky, Andrew monastery and Lev Rubinstein, the so-called "Moscow conceptualism" - an artistic phenomenon, who formulated in the 80 years of our contemporary art into the international arena.
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issued a UFO book convinced that he - very interesting and very original writer. "Love Agent" and "Gray Notebook" - about the same. About half-starved childhood in postwar Moscow, about how to become an artist Pivovarov, about friendship, about love, about art and about the Soviet regime, the countries of emigration in 1982 in Prague. In the preface to the "Gray Notebook" he writes that this book should be read with his left eye, and "Lover agent" - right. Of course, this is difficult. Not all are endowed with such gift stereoscopy. Books can be read one after another, no matter in what sequence. "Agent Love" is written in the first person, it is autobiography. "Gray Notebook" - a collection of documents, and the present, and invented. Here the letters, notes left by friends at the door of the studio, essays, photographs, drawings Pivovarova son Pasha, who is now a well-known artists and writers under the pseudonym Pepperstein, lists of people who visited Victor's guest. And the wonderful "Filimon, or Notes from the Underground" - a blog mouse Philemon, who lives in pivovarovskoy studio, and tells the story of Victor and his friends. Lyrics Pivovarova remarkably observant and accurate. They - the most valuable source of knowledge about cultural life in Russia in the last third of the twentieth century. But it is very fine, remarkably genuine literature. Here, perhaps, lies the gift Pivovarova: telling a very intimate and delicate things, he never for anyone not hiding and not break down in the turning out of the soul inside out. And it is very difficult when writing in his autobiographical, even confessional genre. Pivovarov able to see the little things in the universe. And he knows how to make friends and love and clear talk about it. His words about his first wife, who died early in the poet Irina Pivovarova and Milena Slavitskoy, his second wife, a son Pasha, on his friends Evsee Drize, Henry Sapgir, Igor Holin, about Ilya Kabakov, for those whom the reader can not know for sure or not knows - piercing and full of kindness. Somehow, even embarrassing to praise the writer for what he is a good man, but in the case Pivovarova not escape: his literary skill is directly linked with human qualities. And if you add that both books are beautifully illustrated works Pivovarova, then one can conclude: the books to read. Do Right eye, left - not important. Better - head and heart.