Recommendable Artists

　Bone in the Siberian city, Krasnoyarsk, U.S.S.R., in 1926. His creative endeavor did not fit to the Soviet Union's socialism art concept, therefore he remained unknown artist for a large audience in not only Russian people but also the abroad, the more so because he was based in Siberia, far away from traditional cultural center in Russia for example Moscow and St.Petersbourg.
　He started as a realism painter, but he changed his style gradually and his talent was displayd in abstract painting field which was rejected by Soviet Union.

　In late 80th, the period of collapse of comunism and socialism establishment, he received public recognition.
　After 1991, Pozdeyev's painting have been bought by famous Russian museums for example Tretyakov museum in Moscow, Russian museum in St. Petersbourg.
　First Russian contemporary museum in Kemerovo, Siberian city, built separate building for his artworks.

　In 1993, first big exhibition for Pozdeyev's painting was held at the Central House of Artist, Russia in Moscow. This exibition got big succeses and got excellent revies from newspapers and art magazines.
　 After this exhibition, A.Pozdeyev nominated as a candidate of Russian state award, and many TV programs for introduce his artworks and his life were made in several countries inculd Japan, Nippon Housou Kyoukai <national TV in Japan>. And more bigger exhibition was held at marble-palace of State Russian Museum in 1996.

　In 1998, Andrei Pozdeyev died in Krasnoyarsk where he lived all his life.
　The period of his mundane success was very short, but his fame was impressed in the history of gerat Ruussian Avantgarde eternally.

【From editor's note of The World of Andrei Pozdeyev】　
　
　The art of Andrei Gennadjevitch Pozdeyev, a painter from Krasnoyarsk, is a unique phenomenon in the contemporary history of fine arts. It so happened that for a dozen of years it was practically omitted by any profound reseach and deprived of the possibility to be admired by the general public of fine art lovers in any big cultural centere. It was only in the recent decade, after two representative one-man exhibitions in Moscow. (Central House of Artists, 1993)
and in St.Petersburg (State Russian Museum), and also thanks to two albums and a series of publications by art critics in central journals, that Pozdeyev attracted intent attention as an artist of a surprisingly bright and unique talent.

　The art of A.Pozdeyev is remarkably diverse and multi-faceted. A profound research and systematisation of the artist's legacy we have started preparing a new set consisting of three books under the title <The World of AndreiPozdeyev>. The first of the book titled <painting> is now submitted to judgement of connoisseurs art. Publication of this book has been timed to a retrospective exhibition of A.Pozdeyev's painting in the State Tretyakov Gallery.

　We do hope that we succeeded, at least, to a certain extent, to demonstrate not only the lage scale of the artistic capacities of the painter, but also the extraordinary natural logics and continuity of the aesthetic and spiritual evolution of his outstanding and generous talent.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Nicolai Tkachenko

“Elders”110×110cm Canvas, oil 1995 ―

“Bouquet”100×100 Canvas, oil 1989
POZDEYEV

“Self-portrate”38×32cm Linoprint 1983