The personal exhibition of Boris Messerer "Painting, drawing, installation" opened in Saratov

The personal exhibition of Boris Messerer "Painting, drawing, installation" opened in Saratov in Art Museum named after Radishchev. On the opening day was attended by the author of the work.

This is the first solo retrospective exhibition of the artist's 83-year-old on the Volga. It covers the period from the late 1960s to the 2000s. Total in the halls of the historic building of the museum on Radishchev, 39, presents about 90 works.

"The genius of our century" named Boris Messerer at the opening ceremony of the museum Tamara CEO Radischevskaya Grodskova. The head of the Volga Branch of the Russian Academy of Arts Konstantin Khudyakov added that the artist "nobody ever feared was always absolutely free."

Spectators will see works made in a variety of genres - paintings abstract, decorative easel works, compositions with objects in the interior, etchings, installations, landscapes. Presented at the exhibition and watercolor portraits of people dear to the artist - wife Bella Akhmadulina and cousin of Maya Plisetskaya.

After the vernissage the artist talked to who came to the exhibition Saratov, said that in 2010, after the death of his wife began to write a book of memoirs.

Boris Messerer Radischevskaya exhibition in the museum will run until 21 August.