cameo:Sviatoslav Nikitenko
cinema:Rustam Khamdamov
design:Alexander Ermolaev Etienne Boyer Stas Chermensky
dolls:Ekaterina Manshavina
drawing:Adgur Dzidzaria Akhra Adzhindzhal Rustam Khamdamov Varvara Bubnova
painting:Adgur Dzidzaria Alexander Lozovoy Alexey Shervashidze-Chachba Constantine Inal-Ipa Igor Tulpanov Ivan Titov Levars Butba Milana Gvaramia Nikolay Kabanov Nino Kuprava Pedro Clavijo-Parrado Rustam Khamdamov Shavkat Abdusalamov Stas Chermensky Victor Lysakov Vladimir Andreenkov
photo:Ja’bagh Kaghado Katya Shkolnik Svetlana Petrukhova Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev
production:Production
projects:Alexander F. Sklyar Art Monaco 2011 Birthday of Piero Celebrating Holiday Eve Fazil Iskander Hibla Gerzmava Parisian Salon d'Automne Rhythm. Shape. Construction Shazina Agrba Ăŕëĺrĺ˙ Ńtóäč˙
skulpture:Ludmila Karaeva Vladimir Andreenkov
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12.04.2006 The genealogical roots of Valery Kharitonov go back to antiquity and to Russian orthodox mysticism. They go back to Platonic ideas about the immortality of the soul and to the epic heaviness of forms; they are in his inclination to canonic simplicity and orderly perfection.
The mystical expressionism of today's Valery Kharitonov reveals itself in the variations of the state of exploded time, in which the artist is looking for the threads of the ruined connection between man and the Creator. It also reveals itself in the inevitable apocalyptic motifs, although without their traditionally tragic crescendo.
The turn of the millennium pervades not only the artist with eschatological consciousness; nevertheless, both his intuition and experience possess a primary value for culture. In Kharitonov, the movement of the objects of the Environment towards a certain flower-bearing end is rather some inner state experienced repeatedly, a peculiar kind of transformation, the instant of the wheel of the eternal return where the chaos of just-broken form is followed by a new creative act. Thus, in the confines of one plastic idea, the aggressive red burns the blue and the yellow in order to spread the canvas with green…
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