Sergei Alferov (1951-2004)

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Sergei Alferov.Portrety.

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Despite the recent marriage puteshestvie.V Sergey went to the mountains, he thought about mnogom.Pochemu face of the Egyptian gods and pharaohs so similar to the faces of Buddhist saints? Not features of the inner-sostoyaniem.On thinking about creative artists, resonate like a musical instrument, this blazhenstvu.I about the apparent ease of Chinese brush hudozhnikov.On tried to develop in himself, at least briefly-state "off"-poetic soaring duha.Ego interested not only the laws of composition, ritma.Ego occupied the "energy" of painting, its spiritual suschnost.On collecting the crumbs of a picturesque experience, watching how women Tadzhik weave patterns on ancient stankah.Ego struck honed their skills, their picturesque vkus.On watched as the ancient elders leisurely drink w-tea (tea with butter, salt and milk). Colors their clothes, bright, clear, subtly blended with the bright colors prirody.Zelenoe, yellow, purple ...
This artist from the fact that I saw, do not forget nichego.I he could not forget either the singing of ancient songs Mado under akomponent vestibule or smoked partridge with white and black feathers, red legs, what he saw in gorah.vse it magically came into his life by swimming all the colors of its paint.
DA Ionov

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Сообщение от Lucy

He was interested in not only the laws of composition, ritma.Ego occupied the "energy" of painting, its spiritual suschnost.On collecting the crumbs of a picturesque experience, watching how women Tadzhik weave patterns on ancient stankah.Ego struck honed their skills, their picturesque vkus.On watched as the ancient elders leisurely drink w-tea (tea with butter, salt and milk). The colors of their clothes, bright, clear, subtly blended with the bright colors prirody.Zelenoe, yellow, purple. ..

You are so beautifully described that I want to strengthen these words kartinamy.

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Far away in the Pamir Mountains village Kongurt.V got lost one day in the farm became a young man of strange appearance: wearing galoshes, with his staff and backpack, with a long borodoy.Ego appearance was at the border village of farmers wonder: who is he and where there appeared ? And the fact that he said did not fit into the framework of common sense .. the usual routine of life in the village, consisting of a dozen houses ....
He said that he liked the place, and he wants to stay here, the sheep graze in the mountains ...
Board sent for militsionerom.Bolshoy, tolstyy.dobrodushny policeman smiled: "Why are you here?"
How do I respond? Tell that escaped from Moscow for a thousand kilometrov.chtoby find., Check and compare their inner world and the beginning of life, staying in the concrete reality of the rivers and mountains and the infinity of creation. "
Introduced himself, said that the name is Sergei, name-Alferov.Hudozhnik.V general repeated "Just like it!" In the language of the ancient treatise, Sergei Alferov arrived in Kulyab region, to "honor susceptibility.
"On the susceptibility! In painting, let her honor, preserve and invest in a product with all their forces, not allowing any foreign or domestic idleness ..."
In the kolkhoz about ancient Chinese treatise on painting Shi Tao did not know, but the young man treated well.

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He said that he liked the place, and he wants to stay here, the sheep graze in the mountains ...

Alferov was a true explorer! Agree, a couple of months to get the sheep in the mountains, it's not 2 weeks of 5 stars. Paris hotel stay .
On Alferov:

Vladimir Jah Guzman (Wiedemann)

SACRED PATH CAPRICORN or in search of the absolute center
(Asian note)
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Part II. Eighties
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17. The municipality of yogis on Clara Zetkin ... Who in the world all black? During the season I was about two weeks spent in solitude at Walnut meadow under Hoja-Obi-Garm. Every day I went swimming and sunbathing, actively rubbing with vegetable oil to avoid burning the skin. I spent in the sun for eight hours a day and a tan really cool - up-to-toe. Back in Dushanbe, I noted with satisfaction that at that time was the most tanned from all our Communards. But my triumph was short-lived. Soon there appeared a new man for me - the Moscow painter Sergei Alferov. On that day, our company right from the morning went on the raft. And I found that Sergei tan is much better than me: well, just true of Othello, at the same time - the dazzling white teeth!


Alferov. Sergei Alferov was quite paranoid type, and artistic, who saw dreams reality. He had jet-black bushy hair disheveled, unkempt beard is the same unnaturally high protein slightly squinting his black eyes. It was in his appearance something the Taliban and Roma at the same time. In general, the pan artist was typical of Devonian and produced for the local people an impression. Raft Serge tells the story of his tan.


As it turned out, he hung on Asia is not the first season. One even hired somewhere shepherds graze sheep. All evening, according to Sergei, their shepherds' Brigade conducted as follows:

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- Light a kerosene lamp, hung it in the corner of the big tent, and then lie down polubokom on blankets and watch in silence rubyatsya on this lamp.
- And you too rubilsya?
- And I rubilsya. Most still do nothing. However, eager to begin then, when he had to account for the trustees of sheep. I somehow had a large shortage, and the officers wanted to get to pay some crazy money!
- Well, are you?
- Yes, I just made the legs out!


This year, Sergey managed to get to Tajikistan to Uzbekistan, where in solitude spent a month on the stone. Literally! As it turned out, he wandered in search of the elixir of eternal life in an unfamiliar high-altitude terrain, on the way decided to sit down to rest at a large boulder. So, sit down, then he sat down, and when he wanted to move on, I realized that to leave the stone can not. So get off, it was possible, but stremno! Reason stirrup - the fear that any break in the power structure of local spirits, entangled stone and the whole territory around their force fields of unknown purpose. Fearing a fall in the magical trap, Serge decided it was better left to sit on the stone - now that he was allowed to reach it - and wait for a signal from above. A week passed, two, three ... No signal was applied. In the end, when food and energy were almost at the end, past the stone passed a woman with a donkey. And then our hero realized that or now - or never. He identified a woman stalker who can take him out of a vicious mountain trolls of the zone. Sergei fell off the stone and grabbed with both hands for donkey's tail, who played in this episode, the role of Ariadne's thread.


It sidyuchi during the month to "trollevom stone," Sergei has so great tan. Probably, it was not just a tan, and initiatic cover mysteries nigredo product known as persistence.


Alferov long hung on the Uzbek Mazar (tomb of St. (Tajik)) and all tried to have inquired Babaev secrets of Kundalini activation. It seemed that in these regions of the Indo-Bactrian civilization local adatnye practices should have kept traces of ancient tantric initiations with their mandalas, and chakras. In a sense, really, you can see similarities in the technique of execution of the Muslim prayer and yogic Surya-namaskar (the ritual greeting the sun god). There are, of course, the direct analogy between Tantric Vedic view of the world as a giant-dismembered Purusha and cosmogonic ideas Ismaili Pamirs. There is, after all, the mystical experience of working with "points" in the tradition of the Sufi order Nakshbandiy'a. And yet, I think Sergei somewhat overestimated the competence of local woman in the specialized issues kundalini yoga.


Armenian house. far from the house on Clara Zetkin, a direction of rotation for Caraballo, at the crossroads of the spacious blue rose dvadtsatietazhnaya tile tower Armenian houses - round, like a famous Chicago skyscraper. The house was named "Armenian", apparently because of the residence of a large number of persons of Armenian nationality. Maybe they drove here all the "mahallas. This Armenian house was also residence of Russian dealer who Kalandar acquired, if necessary, the grass. Because the people in the commune lived much, we came to the Armenian House often. It was just wild kicks: an evening to smoke a cigarette on the balcony of the last floor, gazing at the Descending of the bizarre ridge red disc Surya looking at the light up or down in the predsumerechnoy blue haze, the lights of the big city. And then, after half an hour when it became quite dark, we could go to a house situated between the Armenian and the home of Clara Zetkin, an open-air cinema, where the spinning of the Indo-Pakistani films and does ice-cream, lemonade, cakes and pies.


Gypsy and pictures. Once we have here went to the Armenian house, but not in the evening, as usual, but early in the morning. Brought shaly in the newspaper, rolled goats' feet. Kalandar, Haidar-aka, Shih-Ali, Sasha (brother of Kai), I Alferov and - such was the composition of the team. Kurnuli seemingly light grass, and suddenly stuck bottomhole. Went all-out banter. At this point Alferov gets up and said Haidar:


- Aka, give me a hundred rubles!
- How is "writing"? - Did not understand Aka.
- Well, that is borrowed. I need to urgently fly to Moscow, and the transfer time to wait - no.


Haidar aka initially taken aback, but then agreed to the same unfasten fellow "Katya", but strictly from the impact. Serge with all said goodbye and went to the airport.


It takes about an hour. We taschimsya, discussing, kurnuli chase, zastebalo even steeper. Haidar aka went to the kitchen put the kettle on, but the mockery of his so-twitched, in the hallway on the way back, he hit his head on the door jamb, filled bump and spilled over and around the boiling water. At this moment the door bell rings. Haidar turns the latch, and before him again appears Alferov:


- Haidar-aka, give me another hundred! ..
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And Sergei tells the following story. It turns out he left home and went to the trolley-bus stop, but then, the shop "Gulistan", clinging to him with the proposal of a gypsy fortune told. Sergei, as a mystical man, took it quite seriously and agreed. As a result of a complex manual techniques and psychological illusion Khaidarova "Kate" has passed from the possession of the property of the artist in the fortune-teller, who said, moreover, goodbye crazed customers:


- And now you must not tell anyone about our meeting for at least two hours, otherwise they would be in big trouble!


Then Alferov spill the beans about an hour around the house, afraid to break all taboos, but in the end, could not stand the term and went back with a report about the incident. Now he stood with his mouth open in front Haidar drenched with boiling water and waited for the reaction of the sponsor.


Monologue latter can not be reproduced in printed form because of profanity. Nevertheless, the situation the victim - after yet another cigarette - was taken into account. Haidar said Sergei, which will give him the money in the debt and mortgage company will serve its lists with colored gouache. These sheets, the size of a large drawing paper, maestro, as a rule, expressionistic painted motifs, which reminded me personally of Australian Aboriginal art. Each of the sheets was evaluated in gold piece, and thus the entire amount should remain Alferov Haidar twenty pages (of which was then made to only part). Well, business is business. I then saw all of these, already painted, paper by Haidar-CNA in Moscow. However, the author works. But this - later. By the way, some of these sheets is now exhibited in the internet Gelman gallery, with the date given is wrong: during the creation of works should not be given the Nineties, and the eighties
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Berlin-Charlottenburg,
08 августа 2002 г.

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As it turned out, he hung on Asia is not the first season. One even hired somewhere shepherd, to feed the sheep

From the rising sun pink sheep run away from the white snow, farther and farther away from the shepherd sitting on a stone at ruchya.I've got to run to collect stado.Tak continues day in and den.Kazhetsya, time stopped, and long for you all around the native : the shepherd's house with white walls, and the shepherds, with whom you drink tea, and Pamir scary stories about ghosts and kerasinovaya lamp under the ceiling, and white, like a bear, dog, where each day they bake a cake, such as myself. ..
Receiver does not work, the batteries run down, and watch the shepherds show different times ..
As if ever walked down from the mountains of the Pamirs on the artist and sobaku.Tolko wolves howling in the distance, or rather, uhayut as owls.
After the "pastoral" expedition, he visited several arheologicheskih.Svoim friends he said he really began to understand ancient times, only once not been to Central Asia to the site of an ancient tsivilizatsiy.Nemalo ancient ceramic fragments kept it in because rukah.A each pot, "says Sergei, is a voobrozhenii whole picture.
Antiquity must feel, to understand.
Glasnost, perestroika specifically manifested in art: the left as if by themselves in the unknown projects, the huge monuments, incommensurate with the natural values: trees, lake, holmom.V parks, right on the grass, settled fun exhibition hudozhnikov.Stihiyno appeared informal obedeneniya young diagrams and painters, "Hermitage", "Vernissage", "Creative Center." Thus, each period of culture creates its own iskusstvo.Ono is not only echo and mirror the new age, but also has the awakening force.
Artists such Sergei Alferov, seek to convey in their works only internally significant.
Sam is a rejection of foreign sluchaynosti.On pishit freely, easily, raskovanno.No sometimes he appears sensation: something not hvataet.Togda Sergey be ancient wisdom, which states that "there is no other way than the diligent study of books."
He hunts for rare books on art, became acquainted with artists from different art schools, napravleniy.Ne not miss one exhibition.
He is humble and selfless.
(This excerpt from an article in 1988.)

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Paramount importance, according to Sergei, had for him a meeting with Anatoly Zverev Zverevym.Bolshe just did not like the art of management, more deliberate, calculated, lifeless akademizm.Eto was a man perfectly comprehended the laws of painting, and therefore free from them.
Sergei Zverev called his uchitelem.V his concept of creativity, Alferov abandons naturalistic illusion, "filling" the apparent complexity of the objective world.
For the artist, "says Sergei, wood and stone is infinitely more complex than, for example, factory chimney, or airplane, because the fullness of the world objects should not obscure the meaning, the original basis bytiya.S antiquity to the present day artists and poets, considered the wise, able to penetrate the essence of things, discard all external, unnecessary, tiresome details.
Photos courtesy of a remarkable artist Alexander Dedushevym.2003god

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[QUOTE=Lucy;948762] Sergei Zverev called his uchitelem.V his concept of creativity, Alferov abandons naturalistic illusion, "filling" the apparent complexity of the objective world.

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Samvel Aykazovich how good you raboty.Zaglyadene prosto.Osobenno good bird and inoplanetyashka ( don `t know how to call this funny little man). And I have here a man there.

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The schedule of Sergei Alferov, attracted by the opportunity of operating space, the possibility of using refined techniques to populate this space many fabulous suschestv.Tolko schedule, said Sergei, as it allowed him to weave a magical web of mystery along with the spider.