"The Steppe". Vasily Sitnikov and Igor Holin. Exhibition-installation of Michael Alshibaya.

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Vasily Sitnikov Y. (http://artinvestment.ru/auctions/1986/biography.html) - the legend of the sixties. Past the mental hospital and the prison, "Vaska lamplighter" (nickname for the operator's work in the filmstrips "Curike") remains in the memories of a unique artist-virtuoso, teacher, collector of icons (just look at it and a great original.

Steppe - one of the hidden themes in his work, an allegory of fate and freedom. It is no accident so named another poem dedicated Sitnikov nepriyakayannogo Sixties - Igor Holin.

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Written in typical expressive style and holinskom materkom for accents it remained a little-known (said circulation was 15 copies). Actually exhibition "Steppe" is built like a big scene for the poem about Choline Sitnikov, where the work of the Vasily Yakovlevich and other artists act as its elements. The idea of ​​this exhibition-installation Alshibaya belongs to Michael, and the work given to them by Alexander Kronik and perhaps other collectors too.

Chamber project. In the first room - many students Study Sitnikov, often with notes Vasily Yakovlevich. The second room - paintings and drawings of the artist on the background panel with a fragment of the poem. And collage assembled from its deliberately "ignorant" of the notes. In fact it is a step towards the reconstruction of air time, a set of objects and memories.

Informal "academy Sitnikov" visited dozens. It is no accident his work, especially with women's schedule, today it is not easy to attribute significantly - to understand where the hand Sitnikov, and where the hand of his students. Such controversial works on the market a lot. Including by auction.

In particular, our database of auction results are more than hundreds of deals on Sitnikov, but many works are the red and yellow indicators of investment risk.

Large canvas Sitnikov "Moscow 1973" is in the top-20 results auktsonnyh sixties. Back in 2008 it was sold for 627 thousand dollars in the years, several large-scale commercial operations have been sold around 400 thousand dollars. Some consider it an important artist, the other more valued Sitnikov as a man, a phenomenon of the legend of his time, a symbol of free creativity. And with this special status to a few who disagree.

The artist left the USSR in 1975, lived in Austria, then in the U.S.. He died in exile in 1987.

 Sitnikov work is in the Museum of Rutgers University (meeting of the Norton and Nancy Dodge) and in many famous collections.
The exhibition "The Steppe" will last Trubnikovsky Lane 17 to November 1, 2012. More information about it can be found here: http://artinvestment.ru/news/exhibit...alshibaya.html