The exhibition of one of the founders of Sots Art Erik Bulatov will open in the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop

Theater "Pyotr Fomenko Workshop" presents an exhibition of outstanding contemporary artist, one of the founders of Sots Art Erik Bulatov.

The artist, who has long lived in Paris, come to the opening of the exhibition, which will take place on October 25, RIA Novosti reported the press service of the theater.

Name Erik Bulatov is inextricably linked with the concept of social art, one of the founders of which consider it. His works are exhibited in museums and galleries - the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre to the Manezh and "Garage". Bulatov works are in private collections around the world and sold at major auctions. Bright spectacular paintings, actively using Soviet symbols - "Glory to the CPSU," "Sign - No entry", "Here" and others - became the hallmark Bulatov.

The artist does not consider his paintings direct replicas of Soviet posters. "I do the word" ideology "is not like that. I am against any ideology warps. And from the Soviet, and of the market. To me, freedom is possible only through art ... Although (art) is very connected with the society, serves it and fed them, but it alone because it does not answer the question, "what a man wants," and the question "why people there", - quotes the words of the artist's press service of the theater.

Bulatov relationship with the word, with the audience, which the artist seeks to "enter into the inner space of the picture" and make it a party or even a co-author of his work, very close, "Fomenko Workshop", which is called "slovotsentrichnym" theater.

Erik Bulatov exhibition will be open in the lobby of the New Scene "Fomenko Workshop" on October 25 and will last for two months. Arrival Bulatov, who has 25 years living in Paris, and rarely in Russia, in Moscow - is in itself an event.

On Opening Day invited Marina mules (the director of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin), Zelfira Tregulova (director of the Tretyakov Gallery), Vladimir Urin (the general director of the Bolshoi Theatre).