Semyon faibisovich biography books

Semyon Natanovich Faibisovich is one of the most striking representatives of figurative photorealism in Moscow. Unlike the artists associated with Sots Art and Moscow conceptual art, who sought to portray the system using the very same symbols and signs that it itself employed (banners, slogans, leaders’ portraits, typical bits of text), Faibisovich is interested in banal episodes of everyday life, faces gloomy as if bearing an invisible and identical stamp, the thick air of oppression — all of which, in his opinion, was as revealing about the life in USSR as its official symbols.

Semyon faibisovich biography books

 Faibisovitch painted Soviet people on state festivals, in queues, in railway stations, in suburban trains. The idea, which was developed in pictures of the Soviet celebrations of 1 May and 7 November, came to the artist, as he himself admitted, when he was travelling to work by bus from the new Yasenevo district.

“ It was dreadful: it was a newly-built district,