Planet of People

Discovered by the famous "astronomer" Boris Zhutovsky

The exhibition at the Literary Museum began with a hanger stuffed to capacity. The vernissage included two subjects: Boris Zhutovsky's exhibition "Glorious with a Word" and "Tenno Art-20" by Tenno-Pant Sooster. Literally following the name, Zhutovsky focused on...

The exhibition at the Literary Museum began with a hanger stuffed to capacity. The vernissage included two subjects: Boris Zhutovsky's exhibition "Glorious with a Word" and "Tenno Art-20" by Tenno-Pant Sooster.

Literally following the title, Zhutovsky focused on those whose word determined and continues to determine the intangible substance of time, and chose portraits, reportage drawing, and book graphics for the exhibition.

Two main figures of our present past: Bulat Okudzhava and Andrey Sakharov open the exposition. David Samoilov, Boris Slutsky, Vladimir Kornilov, Lidia Libedinskaya, Viktor Shklovsky, Daniil Danin, Natan Eidelman, Yaroslav Golovanov, Yuri Shchekochikhin are looking from the neighboring walls.

... A hundred years ago, namely in the seventies of the last century, a quiet emigration to book illustration gave Soviet artists bread and joy. Zhutovsky is one of the craftsmen who built the book, like an artifact, handmade, carefully, enjoying the details. Individual successes are presented at the exhibition. Among them is a vertical, gloomy, stretching graphics created for Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Planet of the Humans.

And the whole exhibition of Zhutovsky in Trubnikovsky is such a planet of people. A collection of individuals who determined the meaning and context of the era, continents, island states, peaks. Another name and key is "The Last Men of the Empire". It can be so, if we keep in mind that the last remain the first. Recent contemporaries, it was they who laid down the meaning of the sunken century. And there are portraits of those who continue to add up: Naum Korzhavin, Andrei Bitov, Yuri Rost.

Zhutovsky gives each of his portraits some kind of internal acceleration, and then something, visible only to the artist's eye as the main thing, comes to the surface. This is how Slutsky looks in a late portrait; the eyes, containing both “our personal destinies and our common glory”, and the bitterness of the post-war years, look into the unknown, as if ahead of the face.

A separate part of the exhibition is Zhutovsky's court reports made during the most famous trial of the first decade of the 21st century - over Khodorkovsky and Lebedev. All of them were first published in Novaya and have already become part of modern history.

Master Zhutovsky invited the son of an old friend to be his "partner". Tenno-Pant Sooster, animator, film artist, designer, presents easel and printed graphics, book illustration and his ironic and sad view of flora and fauna. The son of Hulo Sooster, who grew up on the knees of the best representatives of the Moscow underground of the 60s and 70s, has been living in Israel for 20 years.

The exhibition in Trubnikovsky lane, 17, will last until May 10