The book of memoirs of Mikhail Chernyshev Moscow. 1961-67 "

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Digress. About his book "Unofficial Art in the USSR" I learned only in the seventy-fifth year. I then pozakomilsya with Lenya Talochkin, collector. Looking through his book, suddenly I saw one of them the familiar picture. Stared, yes it is my job, "Red Moscow" with hruschobami, soon found and the second - "Satellites and haylofts. Hack his way into the text. Igor Mead complied with my request, I first met him about their plans - MSU, etc. and he gave me anonymously, however, as it turned out, had asked him about this I am not alone. Dick who knew what is this bald fool rein under the tail reaches. Oh, I forgot to add that the idea was to collect Igor Khrushchev berated work, especially, he wanted to buy the famous "Geology". In the States, such an exhibition, in his opinion, would have passed to cheers. Khrushch after his visit and the Cuban crisis, there is every dog knows.

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Now add a series of "Earth is round", works in her pieces was 10-15, it included the "orange trucks", "Four pump", "Warehouses", "Space and haylofts", etc. Long history: it began with a picture in a textbook for elementary school. There were painted "antipodes" - are four statue on the ball and space do not fall - the picture was supposed to serve as proof of earth roundness. I could not believe this picture and tried to convince the class that this can not be me, of course, oborzhali. The teacher also joined, a Soviet schoolboy should not doubt in printed or painted in the textbook truth. Similar "Soviet-axiomatic" series I made a few, something that has been preserved. After launching the world's first satellite propaganda thumb that "beep-beep" a few years. Soviet achievements in space have become a theme for my work, too obsessed with them served.

In the fourth year shestlesyat Misha Roginskii unexpectedly invited me to participate in the exhibition in a former cinema "Disk" on Nasdaq Street. The room belonged to the Komsomol District Committee or anyone else there. In these spacious halls has just hosted the exhibition Nussberga and his team. I am glad to become apart of. Mischa drove me to the truck. Arrived. Unloaded. Misha's work had a lot in weighing helped Ira Edelman, Katia Kompaneets, some more boys-girls. Lapping was a few days. Mischa looked great, I put on some hill, "movers" there left risers. The discovery was joyful, it was a lot of people. Appeared Slutsky and some other celebrities there. I have these "important bird" in the person did not know, in our cafe "Youth" they did not go. Planted 0.5 Hirsi per ruble thirty-seven. In the dark-blue Dacron, I felt like a solid, graciously explained their work. Came up friends again succumbed. By the end of "opening day" as he called Roginsky, I was approached by a thin self-confident girl, Lina Asanova, sat me in his car and drove away. Here again I wanted to drink, a natural desire, and everything is closed. Let's go to the airport, in which I no longer remember, took two "smile", this compote I drank the first time. Come to her, where I and bran. In the morning she'll opohmelila and began to investigate why I paint, and why it is so There was no conviction, she just really wanted to understand what makes Roginsky and myself. On the walls of a large apartment hung a lot Nedoebaylo and other shit. Against this background, even Lubnin looked to Rembrandt. I explained to her something, but the distance from the hung her bullshit before Roginsky was immeasurable, even for such a good boy. I went to the "KM", then again boomed, the next day learned that the exhibition was closed, sorry, hung Nussberg two weeks, and we were almost kicked out the outlet.

At the beginning of the sixty-fifth year, again met with Lena Asanova. Her father, a famous writer, has agreed to her request to help me in organizing my exhibition at the Institute of Biophysics. I gathered up the schedule and went there. Met man named Asanova. Work I took a military theme: sketches conveyors, tanks, etc., some with American white stars. The man asked what they were, I quite cheerfully replied that all of this, they say, "the silhouettes of the enemy" (I had a rare book - a manual for pilots on profiles of aircraft and tanks since Khalkhin goals). This is his vponle satisfied, but said, you will need to make a clarification, and some people may not understand, why is there I suddenly American technology promotes. Please, I can even read a lecture on the latest trends - and decided to do. I was allowed two or three weeks to deliver the work. A few months ago, they played Zelenin, about it and say nothing, and Yankel, he exhibited large assemblages, coffins without music. Volodya - a small hard worker, industrious, he and the carpenter, and tinsmith.

Set I had very little of which, the parents gradually got rid of my hardboard. I climbed behind the cupboard, and there out of fifteen pieces, only two or three, and remained. In other zanachkah - the same thing. I quarreled with them a little, nothing much to be done. Consoled by the fact that they and I podnadoeli. Would have bought my work only a madman or a farmer - makeshift sheathing. Hall in biophysics, I looked, long and pass along the right wall were boxes to the left - the rows of chairs, then the window.
I felt a lift, I was promised a room, set dates, plus everything is made and the platform. In my sixties, it was the last exhibition, held for about ten years before I again was able to show their work.
Having estimated the size of the premises, I went to work. It was my idea - to work with the overhead projector as the film crews are doing their shields, convenient, and put this image malyuy. I decided to make eight large, the number of cases, the intervals dilute graphics. For a couple of weeks with the overhead projector can even mend Siqueiros, not only their zalets. In the first place went to the polytechnic library on Nogina. Moved out two books, translated a collection of "Supersonic aircraft" and "Missiles and problems interceptor missiles" Goncharenko, it seems, there was a lot of snaps. Then, in the Central Department Store at the warehouse radios, a year ago I worked as a loader, so that the canvas was free. He hired a truck and home, Falcon. Have slowed economic, some "re", have red lead and two cans of Hungarian enamel, with a rooster, "elephant", for my happiness and bright red was. Half a bucket of whitewash I have long been stashed. So with the materials I have had no troubles. Had temporarily to make room for parents, told them about the exhibition. Took it one large room, promising a thorough renovation after work. Parquet lay a newspaper. The case for the overhead projector, necessity is the mother of invention, on Halabyan a change of schools, took a few cards with Kuzmich and Soviet missiles on parade and to the director. I explained to him that Lenkomnatu decorated with "zheke, request permission to use his overhead projector for an hour or two. It is in this nothing bad saw, easygoing guy, went with him in the chemical plant, he took this banduru of the closet. I am projecting pictures of the books on roll wrapping paper, do not pull the same here hardboard. Houses translated all these contours on primed and painted base, working on the floor, crawling on the future masterpiece. The largest was the "Delta degger" firm "convergence", this monster is on the rise, green-brown on a pink background, I concluded it in the box, got it in my sight. More Honest John "- the view from his ass," Minuteman "on the railway platform, made a colorful chart anteraketnogo site.

Enamel went dry quickly. On the day I gave at work, set against the wall and picked up a following. His plan, I surpassed, so that I could afford a little fool of - made the picture "Kandinsky on the walk", is a positive bloke in a cylinder with Ukrainian embroidery. It was for this show and the hero of the Korean War "Super Saber", this image plane is not got it, drew a line box again - "sight" and outside the finely written the name - "Super Saber V-100" (well, straight "A Fascist flying "). Picked the schedule, many with text in English, sometimes in Russian, "Dunkirk" with red and blue soldiers. Lipka also drove bought my soldiers - "June 22." He was hit by rain, and gouache (on plywood) started flowing a little. In this form it had, and now hangs, I have not bothered to restore it. I had formed a kind of self-defense: making the job and get pleasure from staring at her, "this is how we can", I after some time for it cool down, and then to me they were evicted from her apartment. Roginsky was easier, canvases lift, tighten the new - and drove off. Even so, he scored rolls almost an entire room, buyers for this stuff are. I had long been clear that my customers will not, work can be unexpected and interesting, but hang on a wall so no one's wife would not allow it better to buy prints of five - with glass and frame. Friends extravagant academics or musicians I have had their Rabin to monopolize rubles - they they were on the nozzle. This, oddly enough, was still one of my advantage: a fool-the audience, and their 99%, I have not looked back, vyebyvalsya from the soul. After all the work for the exhibition, made a poster in two copies, it was pointed out cho six chesov will lecture "Review of modern trends of pop art and hard Edge". He brought bills to the institute, has strengthened on the bulletin board next to the wall newspaper. In it, incidentally, was an article about Yankel and a couple of pics with his exposition. Reported the discovery of the exhibition and lectures familiar artists, some came not so much because of work, but because of the lecture, my awareness was known.

Had stocked work hung all very quickly, every job she knew her wardrobe, intervals diluted graphics. Before the opening was about an hour. Paced the laboratories of the Institute, saw in one room green frog on canvas, was considered - well, like a living, like toothpaste out of molded and painted - Zelenin, naezzhy merchant. Hung somewhere a couple Nedoebaylovyh - well, it's **** ec. "Biophysical" people ought to be Pollock's at least show, and I told them "Campbell Soup" cook. Lenin went to the store, picked up 0.5 "Agdam, zanachil for lectures, jim-jams off.

The six people began to gather, some, Poglazov, immediately left. Watched every powerful, but homemade. Pictures do not even rack were covered. Nussberg appeared without aide, watched everything very carefully, not greet me. He has such fuck visited, yes I do like that. At the lecture he had not stayed. There were "ssurealisty" Well, I like those not invited. Then immediately crowd of my friends were hollow, they are from "Gastoronoma" on Lenin entangled, were already slightly oblique. Institutskii epidiascope standing behind rows of chairs, I laid on him a brochure and reproduction, went to the attic with the faithful "Agdam, blew out of his throat, smoked a cigarette and vice versa. Mood rose, people were already seated, waiting. I went to their "console", I look, and catalog "Popular IMAGE" no longer exists, and even Liechtenstein brochure disappeared. Return here, no, he pretended that everything is in order.

He started with De Kooning and Franz Kline, and then talked about Toby and the other "Calligraphy", accompanied by a story showing reproductions. He began to speak of Liechtenstein, the yield was found by itself, people were known Disney style of old style and primitive Soviet animation, and "Snow White" almost everybody has seen, treated and without reproductions. Americans, say, the style of this "contour-shading" from childhood familiar, they look more comics to read without learning, but none of them in the head would not come, that this can be drawn on the canvas, insert a sturdy frame and call a masterpiece. They found a pair of lovers such paradoxes - Lichtenstein and Warhol. First, in the sixty-first to sixty-second, they were called charlatans, but now, in the sixty-fifth, on a few people dare, pop art is spreading worldwide. I did not dictate anything to them - think for yourself, who naravitsya his wife, and who priest's daughter. Showed the work of Kelly and Newman. He emphasized that they are similar to the works of Malevich and Rozanova, only made a half-century later. I believe that with a good knowledge of the subject can convey its essence to any audience, you need only to know exactly the level. The question for them was different: once a pop dell'arte all this is so, then who needs it, with fat rage. Well, excuse me, in this scenario, everyone decides for itself, then, comrades, voting will not work.


I stayed there so a week, there were few stray people, mostly artists. Took work home - again all for a great wardrobe, a couple of days made the promised repairs. I was finally reconciled to the idea that Moscow - patrimony Rabin-Nemukhin, I was not the place nor the time.

In Rabin, I was once - went to Lianozovo, I really liked his work Fritz Glarnera, but as she got to him, I did not understand. Rabin had a very nice guy, like Roginsky, but that's the picture they say different.