Sergei Alferov (1951-2004)

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And these flowers ...

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Lucy, the first bouquet is wonderful. Thank you.
Article by Igor S. Dudinsky directory Alferov. Directory itself I do not have a year and I do not know. Like the 90-s.
 
  It works fantastically combines high aestheticism and folk "source materials", modernist pretentiousness and Dadaist quivering, bottomless symbolism and limit tangibility Russian lubok, pictorial subtlety, and "rough" specific timetable. But all together it does not amateurism, not eclectic, and the transfer of the most powerful spiritual experience, an introduction to the sacred, secret, an approximation to the "beginning of all beginnings."
Sergey Alferov of those which say they are slightly out of this world. His life discomfort and irrational. He refused to amenities, settling in one of Moscow's artistic communes among itinerant philosophers, hippies, clochards and fanatics painting. His bed - sleeping bag. His desk - a box from under the bottles. But he is thrown open to all the cosmic energy, absorbing them with greed and lust, hurrying to catch and capture the information.
However, Sergey Alferov - not just a medium, coldly and dispassionately recording the direction of astral vortices. His eyes turned first to the most ancient recesses of consciousness. Of bygone centuries and civilizations, he draws is that very relevant today. Signs of the deceased and non-existent it is necessary to decipher if only for the timid attempts of their own salvation - perhaps even unconsciously, fragmented reproducing these weird characters, we are at least partially able to find a link to higher powers. And here is not important level of our "intellectualism" - in the end, recite prayers and those who do not understand the meaning of their constituent words.
Magic in principle accessible to everyone. Another matter that we draw "circles", "crosses" and "triangles", not thinking about consequences (we simply do not come to mind). Initiates the same approach to business professional. Therefore, from meeting with their creativity sweetly aching heart. Only the "super-human" love this world, you can learn, simple, unpretentious things are becoming global, generalized categories. For handicapped man in the street cares a whale, an elephant or a turtle - just zoological exhibits. And how few, alas, left madmen who no doubt consider them sacred foundation of the earth's firmament.
Fortunately, Sergei Alferov - of them, from the "misguided" (he draws a turtle, encapsulating the entire universe at once). His "inside" is so fused with the "external", that one is reminded of the original postulate of the dialectic nature, created man for the sake of knowledge itself. And not the fault of the artist, that his discovery of reality does not match the generally accepted ideas.
As far as the art of Sergei Alferov nationally? On the one hand, it is convenient to answer this question, referring to the cosmic Russian soul (whatever you say, but his work is absorbed and reflected the smells of many "distant, wonderful country"). On the other - it is so dissolved in a primitive esoteric traditions, so spiritually assimilated that, at first glance, irreversible atrophy ethnically. Nevertheless, his departure into "inner emigration" did not result in a break with the "quintessence of Russia - and little need to understand the nuances and subtleties of the eastern, kayficheskogo attitude that through a flimsy outline andersenovskih steeples and attics see the romance of other geographical spaces, feel the acrid smell of wild Slavic steppes, hear the neighing of grazing quietly in the night mares. Truly, what fantastic and unattainable goal that set themselves Russian artists, the farther away from their native soil rushes their rebellious spirit, the more they are "at ease", the more interesting, more profound and original wrought by their reality, the greater their contribution to the treasury world culture.
Sergei Alferov, the lone Russian poludaos-polusufy, wandering umbrella with holes through the centuries, legends, gives us his tender, touching revelations and ... unlimited calls in the unknown distance.
                                                                                                                                       Igor Dudinskiy

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Igor Dudinskiy legendary figure in Soviet and post-Soviet art bohemia, a brother in the spirit of Leni Talochkina.Zhurnalist, writer, poet.Vmeste emigrated to Paris with the painter and art critic Vladimirov Kotlyarova (Tolstoy), Moscow became the co-founder and co-editor of the anthology of avant-garde Parisian culture "Mulet" and newspaper "Evening Bells". He was deputy chief editor of Edmund Iodkovskogo "Literary News". Established and published the newspaper "The last pole" and the magazine "Russia Continent". Author of several books of prose and verse sbornikov.Byl close friend Sergei Alferov.
This article was actually a directory Sergei Alferov, who left a very small circulation somewhere abroad .., there is something that is not got a lady that prepared the catalog, resulting in Moscow were isolated ekzemplyary.Vot photo Sergei, which has already been published Samvel, it was also in that directory, it did Igor Pronin.

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Mann Spasibo.Pervy bouquet is ofort.Vot several etchings.

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Continuing the theme of Sergei, works in ink and ruchkoy.Primerno such a plan work would be at an auction in Sovkome.

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Topic watched by 2,500 thousand people, I think these publications will be of interest to aficionados of his tvorchestva.Vse stories Sergei are recorded and published in 1988g.D.Ionov I publish will not, but it is not интерестно will read the book, which God forbid, if everything goes well and sponsors are found, vydet to the jubilee exhibition 2011g.Mne want to be seen not only through the prism of iskusstvovedchesskogo analysis, which will undoubtedly be present in the book and which is very important. I want to look at his life and work as though his eyes.

Sergei Alekandrovich Alferov (Alfediani as affectionately called by his own people) was born in 1951 in a family of intelegentov. Who left their names on different pages of Russia's history, his ancestors were italyantsy.K instance, one of the ancestors of Sergei his great-grandfather, carver, writer, traveler, architect assistant Voronikhin in the construction of the famous Kazan sobora.Drugoy grandfather was a famous geologist Yuri Osipovich Alferov.Detstvo Sergei was held in Tashkent, the capital Uzbekistana.Zdes arrived from Leningrad, he worked his grandfather was a geologist, laying the foundations for mining in the mid - Asian respubliki.Detskie memories as said Sergei - is for life! spacious cool white house, like a korabl.U grandfather in his office a beautiful table, and on it a lot of beautiful things: stones, mineral specimens, icons, collection monet.Na wall-paintings: old, Russian., Italian painting 18 veka.vidy Peterburga.Bronzovye figurines, vases of Venetian stekla.Muzey!
Perhaps then formed the perception and artistic sense Sergeya.Ono born in mysterious circumstances .. because everything was like a skazke.Dragotsennye stones rock collections, sedate preference night, for which seated friends grandfather (only at night there is no heat), an angel, gazing from the window sill Dolci on the wall, the ancient atlas of the sky .. Sometimes my grandfather read Sergei Andersen's fairy tales, and the room as fantasichessky ship steamed over time, flew over the centuries, from Asia to Europe, from Russia to Daniyu.A morning he left his old house -ship, from its cool darkness and popadalv another story. in another country: men in skullcaps, women in long colorful robes, mosque, eastern question, the summer Asian yarkoe.Svet, blesk.Horosho! the yard runs a stream, beetles fly drink water ..
This paradox fairy-tale world, this phenomenon of several cultures fascinated by the future artist, cultivating his imagination.

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And what is it banks on the photo? Gouache in such a?

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And what is it banks on the photo? Gouache in such a?

That can not exactly say, but according to Olga wife Sergei Alferov buy huge jars of ink and then poured it in a small jar for convenience.

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I forgot to ask her why tipografskaya.Interesno it from savings or other reasons .

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I forgot to ask her why tipografskaya.Interestno it from savings or other reasons.

Because the ink cost 1kg. - 1rub., Sold its printing plant workers (stolen). Many artists in the joint. time used this paint.

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Grandfather disapproved of his passion for painting, sculpture, bought Sergei clay, paint, paper, kistochki.Potom Sergei engaged in a circle in the Palace of Pioneers, and later became a student of art Tashkenskogo school.
Mores in those years were not easy, it was decided to produce "one spirit" of future artists, and has been compulsory and regular singing of the choir, traveling to harvest cotton in the farm and announcements from time to time of war modernizmu.Atmosfera was stifling, neiskrennyaya.Serezha first sang with everyone, then he just silently open rot.Poteri one vote no one noticed ...
In painting, it was difficult to keep quiet .. He saw all around very different eyes ...
The work done with colored pencils and watercolors.