Paintings and drawings by Taira Salakhova in the fund "Catherine"

[Евгений]

January 16 to March 1 in the halls of the Cultural Foundation "Ekaterina" (Kuznetsk bridge, 21 /5) held a personal exhibition of the artist Tahir Salakhova.

Tahir Salah - symbolic figure for the domestic arts, founder of the "severe style", a living classic, a lot done, not only for the art itself, but also for people in the arts. Nearly thirty years Salakhov held senior positions in the Union of Artists, which gave him the opportunity to support young artists, to support students Surikovsky Institute and to cover "non-conformists. With its direct involvement in the late 1980's - early 1990's in Moscow were solo exhibitions of Robert Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Gunter Yukkera, Francis Bacon, Jean Tinguely, Giorgio Morandi, Janis Kunellisa, Gilbert and George. But the official could not obscure Salakhov Salakhova-artist who has created more than 60 years of creative activity, hundreds of paintings and graphic works, of which several dozen are rightly considered masterpieces of national art.
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[Евгений]

CATHERINE tar of the Hero of Socialist Labor Tair Salahov - and about the Socialist Labor

Through all the retrospective Taira Salakhova motive is still a body, frozen in the "internal combustion" - in a concentrated ready either to work, whether in deed. Only in the very first graduate of his work "On Watch" (1957) people are relatively relaxed (with the watch after all, not to watch) go, the breeze enveloped rather impressionistic painting, devoid of tension. They walked, though, against the wind - it must be understood "against the tide": the work is done on the first wave of de-Stalinization, or, equivalently, releninizatsii. Salakhov was one of those whose youth fell to the Twentieth Congress, and is forever left an imprint on him. But what was the language of de-Stalinization?
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