Alexander Zosimov

Architectural projects and collages

Alexander Zosimov is an architect who never built anything. He is one of the veterans of the so -called “paper architecture” - avant -garde constructing exclusively on paper, a sort of “couture” in the profession, when the experiment seems more important than creating a “wearable” thing. Therefore, there is no fundamental difference between academic “projects” and Zosimov’s “collages” like “collages” with attention to take a closer look at the work to see that both the absurd “projects” and social “collages” seem to explode from the inside. In them, according to the will of the author of Stalnala, born away from vain light. Peering into the butthery features of the "children of the dungeons" always fulfills the peering light sadness, exalting him in his own eyes. Especially when these most tender features are drawn in the thin technique of air watercolors, which is already thinning everything that will not fall under the arm of the watercolist. Even Fonvizin "circuses" can squeeze out a tear from the viewer. Not to mention the metaphysical still life of Markevich. They have an empty pharmacy bubble, a wedding ring, a frail bouquet of pansies or a barely noticeable drop of water slightly flicker against an empty homogeneous background.

But not everything is so simple. In fact, both exhibitions are serious commercial projects. Fonvizin's works have long become a reliable product for antiques, and a museum display of watercolors from the collection of the artist’s family immediately increases them in price. Watercolors Markevich is going to take the Moscow Salon Gallery for sale to London. So that the old marginal things turned into enviable grooms with the dowry. This is the fate of everything exalted. First, it is the destiny of the elect, then - happiness for the attached. As a result, a market product.

Glow to them. A. S. Pushkin (Museum of Personal Collections)