Anatoly Basin, an exhibition in Saint-Petersburg

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February 5, 2011 Gallery "Owl-Art" (St. Petersburg, the third line VO, 14, code 1410#on the gate, intercom 6B, tel. 967-3452) has opened a solo exhibition of the famous St. Petersburg artist and one of the the most significant characters of the Leningrad underground art Anatolia Basin.
Small amount of exhibition nevertheless represents the work of Basin in different years (from 1960 until very "fresh")
The exhibition runs until February 26.
Read more information about the artist, see the report from the discovery and exhibition of works, please visit the gallery:
http://sova-art.com/exibitions/curre...sin_Paintings/

Bassin fixes his attention on the relationship between artist and canvas, in his statement on "the body: beautiful plane, plus the author. Purely internal, so to speak, the intimate relationship of these components, their mutual harmonization, mutual disposition is being painting. Purity of the process brought to exclude design as a foreign element. Images appear as a necessary element of constructive, as a byproduct of the relationship with the artist's canvas. I must say that in their result, the Basin over the past two decades, there is often a nude female body. As if intimacy and sensuality of the artist's connection with the canvas to find its expression only a metaphor. A cut out of the dusk light is perceived more as the heat radiated by the female body. In late Basin in these images - as opposed to strict still lifes 60-ies. voltage and the average period - there is something lightweight, exquisitely scruffy elegance. In its rejection of the content samokommentirovanii offset saturation fundamental meaning of the phenomenon of art in which "eternity, the story itself homosapiensnosti itself the quintessence of the spirit" ...

... Make Bassin book Gazanevschina ", published in Jerusalem in 1989., - A collection of facts, documents, details of anecdotes - remains the main tool for Leningrad unofficial art. Bassin tsentrostremitelen, and if he cares its own place in the universe, and space for everything that surrounded him, which was associated with it, ranging from Sidlin, the group "Aleph" and to the whole "gazanevskoy culture." Its activities are aimed at ensuring that all this fit into the story, which he does successfully.

(Based on the book by L. Gurevich Leningrad underground artists: biographical dictionary. St.Petersburg, Art, St. Petersburg, 2007)