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UNITING THE INCOMPATIBLE
News Service of the TV Channel «KULTURA», 2004
The cat climbed the moon. The dog began to mope, pressing his ear to the warm sun. The magic city spins to jazz music and lovers are reborn...
How can one combine all this with the deadly silence and desperate solitude of the protagonists wrapped in grey cocoons?
A.Tokarev:
- We do not know how things will turn out. No one knows. Ever.
Alexander Tokarev with his creations in their birth throes. Ivan Bukovski with his creations always at the edge, at death's door. Uniting the incompatible, under the rubric of ”Artists against terror“. Try to guess what the theme of their first joint work could be …
A.Tokarev:
- If you ask me, love is the theme most opposed to terror. Have you ever seen a terrorist in love?
Everything starts with choosing the brushes…
A.Tokarev:
- Well, you take whichever brushes you want, and whatever's left is mine …
… the insecurity which is so natural in such cases…
A.Tokarev:
- Just do it as if for the very first time.
. .. and the desire to be the winner.
I. Bukovski:
- It is exactly the way Sasha said - there is always this conflict between the canvas and the painter. The canvas always speaks to us and dictates what to do. We can only react.
A.Tokarev:
All those blurred images, associations, dreams… And then, whatever you get in reality never satisfies you, the whole time you are working on the painting. And no one knows if and when the moment will come when you will be able to come to terms with yourself and be more or less satisfied, or even whether you will ever come to terms with your canvas.Alexey Litvinzev
Olga Andreeva