Igor Dryomin:
Exhibition of Valentin Vorobyov in Gallery A3 Automatic translate

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Vorobyov was one of the most active representatives of the art underground in the USSR and a participant in the illegal market. By the way, it was Vorobyov who invented the term “dip art”, which many people hated, the slang name of contemporary art of that time, the main buyers of which were foreign diplomats and correspondents.

Since the beginning of the 1960s, Vorobyov has repeatedly participated in resonant unofficial or overlooked allowed exhibitions. One of the brightest episodes of his biography, the artist considers the organization in 1961 of the exhibition of formalists in Tarusa - soon with a scandal closed. But the peak of his confrontation was, of course, participation in the 1974 Bulldozer Exhibition. With Rabin, Nemukhin, Komar and Melamid, Masterkova and others. From that exhibition in the wasteland in Belyaevo, even black-and-white photos with a picturesque “star” of Vorobyov’s damaged during the “landscaping” were preserved.

A year later, in 1975, Valentin Vorobyov emigrated to France. The exchange of information was gradually interrupted, the artist disappeared into Parisian life and after a few years was almost forgotten in Russia. As often happens.