Vladlen Gavrilchik. Painting Automatic translate

In the Small Hall

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of the legendary artist, poet, prose writer, one of the most prominent representatives of the first generation of the Leningrad underground Vladlen Gavrilchik (11/27/1929 - 12/05/2017).

Vladlen Gavrilchik was born in 1929 in the city of Termez of the Uzbek SSR. He graduated from the Tashkent Suvorov School, and then the Leningrad Border Higher Naval School, having received the diploma of the officer in charge and the rank of lieutenant. He served on the ships of the Pacific border fleet. In 1955, he retired to the reserve and settled in Leningrad, worked in the design bureau as a specialist in electronic navigation devices. In 1957 he entered the art studio of the DC Pishchevikov, from where he was expelled for "formalistic antics." In 1970, he abandoned his engineering career and devoted himself entirely to art. To maintain creative independence, he earned money on bread and paints, working as a skipper of a barge, a conductor of a mail car, a telegraph operator in a newspaper, a watchman, and a fireman. In his work, he did not make any attempts to collaborate with the official culture. Participant of exhibitions in the Palace of Culture. Gaza and Nevsky (1974 - 1975), apartment and group club exhibitions TEII.

Vladlen Vasilievich’s works are in the collections of the State Hermitage, the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Zimmerly Museum, the ART4 Museum, the Museum of Nonconformist Art, as well as in numerous private collections in Russia and abroad.