Artist Anatoly Sysoev. About myself … Automatic translate

Sysoev Anatoly Afanasevich was born on December 15, 1936 in the Moscow region of the Kuntsevo district, on the Gorki-II state farm in a large working family. From an early age he began to draw and became interested in art in all its forms - fine arts, music, literature, theater.

In 1952 he entered the Moscow Art and Industrial College. M.I. Kalinina. After graduation from 1957 he lives in Kazan. Anatoly Afanasevich - a professional woodcarver. At the beginning of his career, he turned to small sculptural plastic from wood, horns and bones, and later, in the second half of the 1960s, he created carved wall panels and plates. A. Sysoev won recognition at art exhibitions in Moscow, Kazan and other cities with multi-figure subject-themed compositions made of wood, carved dishes, caskets, vases and others decorated with ornamental carvings in trihedral-notched and flat-relief art. Some of them served as models for replication by masters of the Combine of Folk Artistic Crafts, where A. Sysoev worked for most of his life. They were created as national souvenirs and decorated with Tatar ornaments.

The main thing in his work is sculpture in various materials, such as wood, metal, stone. Important in the performance of these works for him is multi-colored tinting, which gives the work a special picturesqueness. In recent years, the artist has been engaged in painting - bright, filled with color contrasts. In his works, the main thing is a man in all manifestations of life - love, family relationships, the interaction of generations. The artist observes the principle in his work - an idea, composition, drawing, color, connecting in a single harmony.

Anatoly Sysoev keeps aloof from all kinds of currents and parties, because freedom of creativity values ​​above all else.

The exhibition demonstrates the work performed over a 40-year time period: since the 1970s. to the present day. Wood sculptures, chasing and painting are presented.

The artist’s works are in the collections of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, the National Cultural Center “Kazan”.

The exhibition runs until March 4, 2018