Armenian artists

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a unique and talented person!

I agree with you, Valentine Podpomogov this artist .. In April, the birthday of the artist, including recalled time ...
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For friends and acquaintances Valentine Podpomogova this day - April 29, was the messy, unpredictable and fun holiday for the past few decades, precisely 74 years.

My wife Asya dropped off his feet, a cousin-pomoshnitsy interfere with each other in the kitchen, Giant Schnauzer Harry expelled from the living room because of bad behavior at the table, the room was deafening barking disturbed.

Visitors stayed an endless stream. As usual, not enough chairs and vases for flowers. Someone was trying to direct this meeting, someone took up a tool, someone - for a glass. Above the desk in the clubs of cigarette smoke was babel. The walls looked down condescendingly grim faces paintings authorship birthday.

Those who saw the picture Podpomogova know solemn strict aura that extends around and covers the viewer. The man slows down his pace, pauses, stops smiling, very joyful mood gives way to sadness. Because mood changes included in the church - the same feeling of contact with something higher, only one facet involved in the earthly existence, with something that is in other worlds, other dimensions.

I always thought that a number of these works is impossible, impossible to live, eat, drink, smoke, watch TV, as it is impossible to live in the temple, in a museum: they are not exactly compatible with everyday life, from everyday worries. Only he, their creator, Valentin Podpomogov could stay in this atmosphere without any consequences, reigning in his little kingdom. Here, time flowed differently, here distorted space. His imagination, could not stand monotony, manifested in the construction of the workshop, in its endless adaptations, endless repairs.

It is deeply felt by the tragedy of human existence refined artist who is even close called Maestro, oddly synergize hellion and mistifiator, Lukavets' without interrupting the game, despite his advanced age and infirmity beset. Decade, cast film and theater, were not in vain - he instilled in the space and transformed it. He built the scenery in his home, arranged for the stage, which unfolded like a play of his life.

I once tried to count how many levels in his home-studio, and counted five of them. "Are not five, and six" - corrected Asya, when I as a woman she sympathized: laying the table, she several times down and up the stairs. "He is so fond of. And there were hints in her intonations mother who used to indulge the extravagance of his talented child and proud of it.

Stairs, railings, lattice doors, stained-glass hatches, bar and cellar, unfinished fireplace, monograms and coats of arms from the ceiling - he did not manage to finish his architectural fantasies, they have propped up the others.

In such a space is not very comfortable to live, but he never lived an ordinary, normal lives. Around it all changed, revealed the true essence of things and people. You seemed to fall out of time, and here, in a parallel world, you have been such as to eat. In this game through space nobody has been able to play - you are confronted with himself and learned about myself, something unexpected. It is well-mannered member of society could be a complete bastard, and the person with questionable morals showed qualities of a saint and children. Young demonstrated the sophistication and the elderly - naivety. Animals behaved like people, which sometimes can not say about the past.

Such was this man, who combined in himself an artist and thinker, designer and craftsman, generosity and prudence, gourmandise and asceticism. Unselected pair of opposites will almost certainly be discovered in Podpomogove, if he was a point, which integrated the thesis and antithesis. Time prstranstvo, people find themselves in the sphere of influence of this personality, like polarized and transformed. Everything seemed a little changed, if not others.

This year he would be 75 years old. He did not live up to the round date. Is this something symbolic: it was not "round", it was the voltage sharp corners and the eternal striving upwards - where there is no space and time as well vechosti.

Zara Ter-Akopian, art

"Voice of Armenia» № 46 (18401) 29 апреля 19
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