Anatoly Rakuzin: an exhibition in Paris

[Игорь Гурьев]

In Paris gallery "Jane Roberts" (Jane Roberts Fine Arts, 65, rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré) March 28 was opening day figures Rakuzina Anatolia.

Exhibition of a very small, chamber, consists of 16 drawings.
Anatoly Rakuzin known for his devotion to a single topic: for decades he paints and writes one thing - the bookshelves, which are placed on the books. As a rule, very close, so we only see the roots.
This, presumably, those books that are in his library, especially art albums.
Sometimes he draws the book, the open on some illustration: it can be a picture of Stalin's Moscow "skyscraper" or a bridge over the Seine.
Or, view the city. (This is, however, oil, and not from this show).

In this exhibition presents his drawings with colored pencils.

His stage name - Naftali Rakuzin.
I once asked him: "Why Naftali"? He said that when he was still living in Israel, so he called himself, and then moved to Paris, he decided not to change anything.
- It seems like Kirill Simonov was a creative "alias" - Konstantin Simonov?
- Something like - said the painter.
In the photo: the author of these lines and Anatoly Rakuzin, and then - a few of his pictures.

I will add that the artist was born in 1948 and in 1980 he was the author of many covers of books produced by the Parisian publisher YMCA Press. Exhibitions of his place in different cities, including Moscow.
The exhibition closes April 27

[Игорь Гурьев]

There a number of drawings with real shelves with books.