Glazunov anniversary exhibition opened in Moscow

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More than fifty of his new paintings presented today in Moscow Folk Artist of the USSR Ilya Glazunov. His exhibition, timed to the 80 th anniversary of the painter, opened in the capital "Manege".

Most of the fifty-scale paintings - painting "Dispossession of kulaks peasants." Attention is also drawn viewers work "Birds of Paradise Worship, made butter with elements of inlay and appliqué, as well as" Decline of the West ", which shows a sad Pierrot, and fiery-red" Firebird ". Viewers have long stopped canvas 2010 "and Spring".

Also on display are dozens of photographs of Ilya Sergeyevich with world famous portraits which he painted in different years. He posed for Gina Lollobrigida, He thinks, Federico Fellini. He also captured with Claudia Cardinale and John Paul II.

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"My favorite artist Titian died in 99 years, but in 95 years, he wrote one of his best paintings, which are now stored in the Hermitage Museum - Saint Sebastian," - said at the vernissage Ilya. - His example inspires me very much . Painter admitted he was delighted to open their exhibition and through the leadership of the city because he was allowed to show the work is in the Manege.

In turn, Union State Secretary Pavel Borodin, Glazunov awarded an honorary medal and the chairman of the Writers' Union of Russia Valery Ganichev noted that "the work of Ilya Sergeyevich always been inspired by Russian masters, the words" and conveyed his greetings from a big fan of Valentin Rasputin.

The exhibition will run in the Manege two weeks. Its milestone birthday, which falls on June 10, Glazunov mark here. "Just put the tables and call all your friends - said the artist. - I hope they will respond to my call."

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"Never before in me was not such an attack to do so many jobs. It is with this spirit will meet on June 10 its 80 th anniversary of outstanding Russian painter Ilya Glazunov.

Prior to the anniversary is still far, but if confirming his words, May 27, painter opens in Moscow's largest exhibition hall Manege exhibition "Masterpieces. New works. 80 years."

Fifty paintings devoted to the main theme in the master - Russia. He has a unique view on this subject - the religious and monarchical. Such a position in the Soviet and current democratic times encountered sharp criticism.

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It may therefore be at an internationally recognized artist, famous for portraits of Indira Gandhi, Federico Fellini, David Siqueiros, the home still enemies no less than friends. The Russian genius "and" Academic retrograde "- here, perhaps, the two extremes in the assessment of creativity Ilya Glazunov. However, it was not unsettling.

"I worked and worked to the benefit of Russia. Without Russia, I myself can not imagine. For me it is better on the bunk in Siberia than in a villa in Miami," - says Ilya Glazunov.

"I offered to stay in the West and in America dozens of times, but what about the debt owed to the Fatherland?" Only once I felt bad when my film "Mystery of the twentieth century would forcibly expel the Soviet Union. Good luck, because someone from the Communist bosses said: "Enough to dissidents." Otherwise I would have been expelled, as a writer Solzhenitsyn. My continued belief: Russian - is the one who loves Russia. For example, the Jew Isaac Levitan - a great Russian artist, who loved Russia " - gives the example of the pictures.

Many of the paintings presented at the jubilee exhibition, as telling Ilya Glazunov, "appeared under the influence of long-term travel to the Russian province. It is there that felt most acutely, for example, the tragedies experienced in the 20 th century Russian peasants, when he was deprived of the right to private ownership of land, forcibly rounded up the communes, collective farms. This dramatic page of Russian history is devoted to home, according to the artist, painting exhibition - "cannibalization. The huge canvas size of 4x8 meters, more than a hundred pieces ...

"I thought of this picture of the destruction of the Russian peasantry, when he heard the words a very peculiar man Winston Churchill:" I thought I would die of old age, but now I understand that I'll die of laughter, because I learned that Russia is buying bread. " This is the result of Stalin's reforms, the result of the Bolshevik conquest of Russia, - says Valentin. - I have long wanted to express the tragedy of the peasants, the destruction of those who fed the bread half of the world in ancient times.

Certainly, new paintings by Ilya Glazunov's written in a realistic manner, he has relentlessly professed. He was sometimes even called "militant realist. But this is, incidentally, is not deterred from the master of young artists who have come in his Academy of Painting and Sculpture, where they are taught exclusively in the tradition of realism.

"Once I went to the Tretyakov Gallery - recalls Ilya Glazunov, - and there are buckets, a shovel stuck, broken glass, and something else. I sincerely apologize: you then repair? "What are you - tell me - is an exhibition of contemporary art. This installation ". I'm for all forms of art! But totally agree with the idea of the great Russian artist Vrubel: "only gives rise to a depth of realism and versatility."

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As ITAR-TASS press conference dedicated to the jubilee exhibition of new works dedicated to the 80-th Ilya Sergeyevich Glazunov. The press conference was also attended People's Artist of USSR, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, winner of State Prize of the Russian Federation, the rector of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture IS Glazunov, Ilya Glazunov.

Glazunov: You said about the anniversary, so here Dostoevsky once wrote: "In the room came an elderly man of about 40". Dostoevsky was then 20. And I am today, for example, to 6 am, worked. I'm at the exhibition will be 50 new works. Finally, I would like to show a terrible orgy of decadence is not, and dikodansa - from the word "barbaric" - when the installation of a pile of rubbish is opposed by Michelangelo. They say that this is modern art, and who does not understand that, and the Freud /Freud /do not know - though it is not clear, and here Freud - and Einstein, and no modern man.

I believe that the only form of art - it is realistic, especially if we talk about democracy - a democracy because, as the ancients said, - a waiver of privilege, then we can talk about pseudo-in the world today: I am a monarchist, because all I love, created under the monarchy.

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I have all died in the siege of Leningrad. I was 11 years old. In the 16 years I was a freshman secondary school of art of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. There step beveled generations of Russian artists ... Ivanov, Surikov, Levitsky, Borovikovsky ... There we learned after the war. The Academy was formerly a church, which, incidentally, Vrubel's funeral - one of my favorite artists. So I was 16 years old, 20 I had to come to the academy, where stands the test, and I sat on the steps of the building. It turned out a lot of girls, crazy funny, Socialist Realism. (Like now, insanely fun to watch many of our programs, if not a huge number of transmissions in which a large number of people dying, that is true.) These girls sang: "Time, time, gold, /playful wave. /Time, time, gold, /Twenty-first Spring. I sat there, I was 16 years old, and I thought: "My God, 21 years old. I have an old will. "

Now. I do not believe, and I am ashamed to this day. 80 years ... should be June 10. So I must tell you that never in my there was no such pressure of work done by so many that I had to do and did. Therefore, it will be an exhibition of new works.

But the most important for me to work - "Dispossession of kulaks."

In 48-49 years, I remember, went from Leningrad to Moscow, he would sit in Khimki and rode along the Volga. And getting out in all cities. Even terrible to say ... In the Kiev I went to do a monk in a Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. And here I was told in every village of dispossession ...

So I thought of this picture "Dispossession of kulaks" - destruction of Russian Christianity. When something rather peculiar man Winston Churchill said: "I thought I would die of old age. But now I realize that I would die of laughter when he learned that Russia is buying bread. " This is the result of Stalin's reforms, the Bolshevik, Kominternovo conquest of Russia.

And I have long wanted to express here the tragedy of the peasantry - the destruction of those who have fed half the world grain in ancient Scythia before Christ. But then I was told ...

In my whole life was the only benefactor - Sergey Mikhalkov. I owe everything to him. He then gave me a room and ordered me - during a New Year's waltz with Furtseva asked about my registration - because after the first show I did not give a diploma and was given the appointment of a teacher of drawing at the Izhevsk, which is then replaced by Ivan. But I was never needed and lived in Moscow.

Once Sergey told me: "Listen, if you write a shitty picture, you see me not go, I visit you in jail will not." He helped many.

And now I just finished a huge canvas 8 to 4, in which about a hundred pieces. Painting "Dispossession of kulaks" would be my home for the upcoming exhibition, because we see the empty countryside, and it is not only a consequence of war. Only Stalin not the house of soldiers and officers, even for deeds, and the German pilot shot down over Soviet plane in two weeks time off.

I remember the village near Leningrad, where I lived before the war. I was 6-8 years. Village Bitkova. The village was torn, women plowed on itself. It was a terrible post-war painting, when 80%of men had been killed.

Here I would like to express this tragedy, as the best farmers jailed, deported to the North, in Siberia. Survived terrible documents.

And to finish this topic, I want to invite you on May 27, Thursday at 14:00 to see the picture "Dispossession of kulaks" and about 50 other new works. I'm sorry that I did not have time to do two works, including "Exile merchants from the temple."

I believe that art - it is what and how. The fact that the artist wants to say, gives birth to its shape.

And today was a terrible catastrophe in Europe and, of course, in Russia - cut off, destroyed, once a great empire, renamed the Comintern in the Soviet Union. This disaster - a terrible lack of spirituality.

When one of the architects of perestroika came to the journalists - I was told participants of the event - and said, gathering television executives: "Forget the word" culture ". There is an art. " It was a terrible black zipper watershed today spirituality and the horror in art, in which we live today, when we have no ballet, no Moscow Art Theater and the Moscow Art Theatre is no painting, and there are installation packet of Marlboro, belted snot, called "Recollection youth. I saw myself.

I once went to the Tretyakov Gallery, and there are buckets of something incomprehensible, let's call it lime and it pierced with a shovel, broken glass, something else. And I said sincerely: "Sorry, here you have a repair. And I answered: "What are you, an exhibition of contemporary art." I say: "What? So this is a bucket with a shovel stuck "" I say: "Yes. This installation. You do not understand. This is a new art. "

My dear friends, if it is art ... We had such an art Manin, who once upon a time was director of the Tretyakov Gallery, so he called it dikodansom.

And so it was a terrible thing, "forget the word culture. Because the cult - a religious notion. The author of these words Yakovlev.

I believe that everyone from the world of art must have the secret of creativity. Like Dostoyevsky, Pushkin and many others. And second of his alter ego must be an active civic activities.

I also tried to follow this principle. I participated actively in the Society for the Protection of Monuments. Twenty years ago created the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, seeing a collapse of art, culture moves us from Europe, where everything is destroyed. And I was in the Academy of Fine Arts Tokyo, Metz, Madrid, Rome and other cities. Completely destroyed the vanguard. Blocks and balls - a madhouse.

Two years ago I went with my students from the Venice Academy, and with us were two professors. I told the students: "If you have not visited here, and I will tell you how to describe it would be, would you believe me?" "No" - "they replied. Then I went to the professor and asked if they have any programs for students, to which he replied: "We are free. We do not have programs for students. " And we have seen: compartments of the CPD, one of them sitting naked sitter, like Apollo, and the two girls settled down and draw his genitals, the two boys paint a little finger. And I say: "And they can draw the whole figure?" And the professor says to me: "We have no problem drawing the figure. Everyone is free. To his ear like, who nostril.

And this sickness upon us.

Another would like to invite you on May 30 at the Open Day was created in me the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. For School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was closed with a crash in 1917. Genius Apollinary Vasnetsov was thrown out, and his daughter showed me a piece of paper, you know, like from paper bags, on which was written in indelible ink: "The proletariat does not need your services. He was thrown out, and there began a disgrace. Then there were 22 Soviet institutions.

The light should go from Russia, but we must fight for the light. And how could I help it. But we have neither of Pavel Tretyakov, nor Ryabushinsky or Diaghilev, nor Mamontov. There is strong public support for those artists who want to speak the truth about the world.

I'm for all forms of art, but Vrubel said best: "Just bear a depth of realism and versatility."

QUESTION: Where is the exhibition dedicated to your anniversary?

ANSWER: Sorry, forgot to say.

Today, unfortunately, all artists need to hire premises, so many can not exhibit their work. As with all of you a well-known writer Valentin Rasputin. 5 years ago I met him and asked: "Valya, what are you so sad?". And he said to me: "And they told me to buy paper for 40 thousand dollars, then my book will be printed. But he does not have 40 thousand: he is a writer.

And my exhibition will be held at the Manege.

QUESTION: What do you mean today, a Russian artist?

ANSWER: For me today, yesterday and tomorrow will be one definition for all: Russian - is the one who loves Russia. For example, Levitan - a great Russian artist. But I know many Russian, who do not like Russia. They are for me, not Russian. I'm talking about blood.

QUESTION: You have lived a complicated life in a difficult time in a difficult country. If you could live life over again, would you change anything in it?

ANSWER: It is better on the bunk in Siberia than in a villa in Miami. I love Russia. I left the West and in America dozens of times. But we have a duty to our country, to our Fatherland.

One time I just was bad: when I was a picture of "Mystery of the XX century" and wanted to expel the Soviet Union. And only one vote in the party's Central Committee was outweighed by: said that's enough to make dissidents. And so was the decision: "to equate the status of Solzhenitsyn."

I would have started life as well on anything not refuse. I do not say 'no' from one of his articles, nor from one painting or one of his speeches, from any of his actions - I am of anything not refuse, I would not feel ashamed. No shame in only one: for what I could do 10 times more, if I had not interfered.

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