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This name is well known artists, art primarily in connection with the Moscow exhibition of 1974, which went down in history as "the bulldozer".

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But remember it and those who are in art had nothing to do: too much resonance caused this event. What happened? "As you know, with 30 years of XX century, officially supported the direction of art in the USSR was the only socialist realism. Other forms of art authorities often persecuted. And now a collector Alexander Glaser and a group of avant-garde artists, led by Oscar Rabin, decided to show all the products a plana.V September 1974, they staged a vernissage on the outskirts of Moscow, in a vacant lot next to the forest park Belyaevo. After about half an hour after the opening of the exhibition here bulldozers arrived, who began to push artists and audience. In this part of the picture was crushed.
This event caused a loud resonance in the foreign press, and after two weeks the authorities have allowed non-conformist artists to hold a similar exhibition in the open in Izmailovo. Nevertheless, one of the organizers of the opening day next to the forest park Belyaevo - Alexander Glezer - was expelled from the country. He took with him and his own large collection of paintings: his Moscow apartment on Preobragenke a few years on the merits was a real museum informal (independent) art.

- When I left, Oscar Rabin in Sheremetievsky airport told me: "You do not emigriruesh, you're going away on a business trip. So all the years in the West myself and I feel detached, - says Alexander Glezer.

After leaving Moscow, he creates an informal museum (independent) of Russian art outside Paris in Montgeron and in Jersey City near New York.

Museum of Montgeron eventually moved to Paris and three years was located near the famous Pompidou Center. Now this is a museum in France is no longer, but the one in Jersey City, works very efficiently. In the three-storey mansion, in the halls on two floors you can see the works of modern Russian, Ukrainian, and more recently, and Belarusian artists. Exhibited by Gleser and Western masters. Own the same collection of Alexander now has about 400 paintings, drawings, sculptures ...

The museum in Jersey City are both immigrants and Americans. Visitors can not fail to draw, when the artists who exhibited at Gleser, told The New York Times, The Washington Post. And it was, and Mikhail Shemyakin, and Ernst unknown, and many young artists, for whom the museum in Jersey City was in its time an excellent starting point. Now their work - in the Tretyakov Gallery and in other prestigious galleries in the CIS. The museum collection was displayed in the halls of the Senate and the U.S. Congress in Washington. Exhibitions were also in galleries in New York and various states of America.

To support the CIS contemporary masters of the brush, Alexander, since 1994, demonstrated their creativity in art museums of Vladivostok, Kharkov, Odessa, Zaporozhye ... And in the coming year will show the work of young in the Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin. In this museum, as well as in the Tretyakov Gallery some time ago, he presented works by artists of avant-garde 60-80-ies of XX century from his own collection. Times change. And now with interest the fact that once the government met with hostility.

Incidentally, in his time behind Glaser left and the artist Oskar Rabin, who was stripped of his Soviet citizenship and now lives in France. In 2006, he won the State Prize of Russia "Innovation" for his contribution to the development of modern art.

... Last year, Alexander Glezer first visit to Minsk and Vitebsk. As a result, the work of twenty-six of our countrymen in this year exhibited in the United States. And now a new arrival in Belarus.

- You have a lot of talented artists - says the guest. - It Tsesler Vladimir, Sergei Kiryuschenko, Alexey Ivanov, Zoya Litvinov, Ruslan Vashekevich, Zoya Lutsevich, Valentina Lyakhovich, Galina and Vasily Vasilyev ...

With these and other works of Belarusian artists Glaser plans to introduce not only Americans, but French, Germans. And he wrote a book about modern Belarusian art and one of his exhibitions in the next year is going to take place in Minsk.

In the picture: a poet, translator, collector Alexander Glezer.