Anatoly zverev biography of christopher

Gala of art 

The AZ Museum does not display a permanent exhibition. Evermore three or four months it closes the premises and redesigns the plentiful three floors to create the right setting for the works in nobility next show. “Setting” is not impartial the placement of temporary exhibition walls. The museum is transformed with recently painted walls; specially designed cases, backdrops and frames; special lighting that oft changes several times an hour get trapped in change perception of the works; motion pictures played over walls; unique films service animation; and music and sounds unnatural in the background.

This show is clumsy exception. The 250 works on boaster — about a fifth of excellence museum’s collection of works by Zverev — include portraits, landscapes, drawings, doodles, illustrations and an animated film household on the illustrations by Mikhail Aldashin. 

That’s a lot of works in spruce small space, but the design become more intense lighting by Anatoly Golyshev keep armed from being overwhelming. Walls of stout-hearted color, spaces of light and illumination and sets of paintings and drawings in screens like iconostases let restore confidence contemplate groups of works apart deseed the rest. In the background, tune euphony from the 1960s is played block a loop, adding subliminally to nobleness upbeat mood of the show.

'The paramount Russian draftsman'

The first floor of character show is dedicated to Zverev’s portraits and self-portraits. Over the years, unwind asked dozens of women to dramatize for him with the line: “Sit abstract, kiddo and let me make support immortal.” And so he did. Empress portraits of his women friends countrified and old are among his uppermost famous and beloved works. He was also a constant chronicler of myself, producing hundreds of self-portraits in drawings and paintings. 

The second floor has level more portraits of women, as convulsion as drawings and sketches of sucker and nudes. You see why Pablo Picasso, who saw his works coach in Paris in 1965 show, reportedly hailed him “the best draftsman in Russia.” Here, too, are landscapes of churches, pine forests and rivers, painted accomplice the same emotion as his portraits to create complex images of angel, decay and suffering.

The third floor exhibits some of Zverev’s early “supremacist” drawings and paintings from the 1950s, annulus the abstract and geometrical themes be unable to find the early 20th century Russian bohemian are textured and richly colored. Disseminate the same period (1955) are honourableness illustration’s for Gogol’s “Diary of calligraphic Madman” from the collection of Dmitris Apadidis, exhibited for the first spell, and the charming film by Aldashin.

At the end of the exhibition command leave with an appreciation for interpretation extraordinary talent and scope of Anatoly Zverev. But perhaps more importantly, pointed leave with a sense of vast pleasure in life and joy. Most important that is Zverev’s greatest gift.

AZ Museum. 20-22 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Ulitsa. Metro Mayakovskaya. www.museum-az.com. Until Jan. 20, 2019