home  gallery February 21 – March 3, 2012. Vladimir Aleynikov. Painting/graphics/literary evening.
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February 21 – March 3, 2012. Vladimir Aleynikov. Painting/graphics/literary evening. |
VA’s ISOPOETRY
Painting/graphics
Literary evening
In the gallery hallsVladimir Dmitrievich Aleynikov
Russian poet, writer, artist, was born in Perm in 1946. He grew up in Ukraine, in Krivoy Rog. He graduated from fine art department of historical faculty at Moscow State University. He participated in archeological expeditions, worked at school, reported for a newspaper. He is a founder and leader of a legendary literary SMOG community. Starting from 1965, his poems were published in the West. Within the Soviet rule he wasn’t published in his motherland. For more than a quarter of a century his texts were widely spread via samizdat. In the 80s he was known as translator of USSR folk poetry. He started to get published in his own country during perestroika. He’s the author of many books of poems and prose, memoirs about the bygone epoch and his contemporaries. Prize winner of Andrey Beliy award. He’s a member of PEN-club. Many of Aleynikov’s works, both paintings and graphics, belong to private collections and museums in Russia and abroad. Occasionally his personal shows are arranged. Since 1991 he’s been living in Koktebel and Moscow.
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Vasily RAKITIN, fine art expert,
Paris - Moscow It’s no coincidence that Vladimir Aleynikov is for a long time said to be the best artist among men of letters and the best poet among artists. This thesis can easily turn into an article and even a book, lyrical and dramatic, full of expressive details through which one can feel breath of epoch. He’s one of the most significant heroes of our underground. A poet, whose poems were not published, but they found recognition in samizdat, the founder and leader of SMOG community (The Youngest Community of Geniuses – Courage, Thought, Image, Depth), a man of anything but simple fate. His books of poems started to come out only in the years of free book-printing in the beginning of Gorbachyov’s perestroika. For all his life Aleynikov has been not only writing, but also painting. He was friends with many vivid artists, poor Bohemian knights of another art, and he himself belongs to this unique, one-of-a-kind artistic constellation. Aleynikov’s works are spread all over the world. For him painting and writing are internal needs. Spontaneity and romanticism gave birth to mysterious and expressive images. They have attraction and energy. It’s an exotic and poetic world. I’d call it VA’s ISOPOETRY. |
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