The hero of this program is Simon FAIBISOVICH.
Educated as an architect, he published a few fiction books, and his essays and publicistic works are being issued in the most popular editions for already ten years. Also, Simon Faibisovich is a photo artist, an installer and a video artist as well.
However, he became famous first of all as a painter.
We happened to see his paintings for the first time in the late 70s on Malaya Gruzinskaya. Critics used to define his style of that time as hyper or photo-realism. His reality presents people in the underground and suburban trains, buses and railway stations, backyards and demonstrations. They are common Soviet people of the 80s, who either didn’t care about being Soviet or were very proud of this.
Faibisovich’s pictures seem just to copy reality but when you look at these huge and carefully painted canvases, you can’t help feeling captivated, getting involved in the life that had gone in every sense. |