A bird. A fish. Alexander

Memorial exhibition of Alexander Belosludtsev’s work
Graphics, calligraphy, photographs, book design

October 26 — November 26 2005
The Enfilade of the Main Building

This exhibition is a attempt to take a look inside an intellectual and esthetic laboratory of Russian glossy magazines that is a relatively young branch of our graphic design. Alexander Belosludtsev was one of its more refined representatives. His public biography includes such jobs as an art director of the “Avtopilot” magazine, the first Russian-born designer of “Vogue” and the first art director of “GQ”. We have tried to present such spheres of Belosludtsev’s work that had been known only to his close friends and some colleagues. Among them: Elena Fanailova (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty), designer Andrey Logvin, composer Leonid Desyatnikov, Alena Doletskaya (Vogue), Nicolai Uskov (GQ) etc; they have become organizers and masterminds of this exhibition.
Alexander Belosludtsev worked as a chief designer in several publishing houses and advertising agencies, designed books, fonts, advertising graphics and logos — including those for Alpha-Bank and Yukos — and received professional awards for them.

Belosludtsev also “featured as a calligrapher” according to the chairman of the Biennale of graphic design “Zolotaya Pchela” S.I. Serov. The exhibition’s title suggested by three of his calligraphic sheets. He treated culture as a living being, and living beings as cultural values.

The exhibition presents graphics, photos, books by Belosludtsev from 1990s—2000s: from calligraphic sheets shown at his exhibition together with the American designer Jeffrey Morin in 1991 to expressive black and red works displayed at the Lenin Museum in 1993 to photographs of Rome, Russian manors, Oranienbaum and Peterhof. There are also art books on work of artists Anatoly Zverev and Dmitriy Krasnopevtsev for the art gallery “Kino”, the catalogue “Treasures of the Tower” and the art book “Come-to-life Bridges” for the British Counsel, six volumes of an encyclopedia “Contemporary history of Russian cinema” (project of the “Seans” magazine, Saint Petersburg), issues of the “Avtopilot”, “Vogue”, “GQ”, “Ptyuch”, postcards and advertising graphics.

“As for designer’s ideas, Sasha [Belosludtsev] had always been for a half of a step ahead of all others”, — reflects the prizewinner of the State Award Andrey Logvin.
 

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