Sivachev biography

Front artist Sivachev: the image of absolute love is found not by a camera, but by the heart of the front -line artist Sivachev: the image of absolute love is not found by a camera, but by the heart of the front -line artist Yuri Sivachev creates images of the heroes of the special operation Yuri Sivachev - the first artist, who was mobilized in the zone of Svo.

It happened. Shortly before the start of the special operation, he moved from Moscow to Rostov-on-Don, got a teacher at the Greek art school. There came a summons in the fall of the year. He says he didn’t think to hide, he was already standing at the military enlistment office in the morning. And then - the training training ground, the first combat missions ... But then fate decided to add even more bright colors to the life of the younger Sergeant Sivachev - and he was enrolled in the first front -line creative brigade formed, where the artist was required.

Since then, he creates images of the heroes of a special operation. We talked about this with the master: about the place and role of the artist in general. You write portraits of fighters at the front. Why, if there are photos and videos - pressed the button, and any portrait easily scresh around the world? Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivacheva Yuri Sivachev: Let me just tell you a story, and you will all understand about the role of the artist in the war.

Once I met a volunteer, in my opinion, he is from the Kuban, in the appearance of an ordinary grandfather, with wisdom in his eyes, with gray hair, bright-light. It turned out that he was sixty years old. I say - what are you doing here? And he explained: the grandson was mobilized - he followed him, and they were distributed to different regiments. I say, of course, I can’t fight, but at least to strip firewood, cook, wash - this is also a big and necessary job.

He meets every fighter as his grandson. I sat down and wrote a portrait of this grandfather. So he called Pomprat - "volunteer". And now everyone who see him is crying. Because this is an image of the absolute love of human, in contact with which, the viewer becomes different. It is impossible to capture even the most powerful camera. This is only a person can catch with his heart.

The front -line artist is experiencing with the fighter everything that he saw with his own eyes. Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev, the camera is always cold and indifferent, and the front -line artist is experiencing with the fighter again everything that he saw with his own eyes. The fighter after the battle or before the battle - only the front -line artist will see and understand and understand.

Unlike the camera, you have another advantage - you can tell stories. Seeing your picture "to the West", I thought that it depicts the Urals, but my friend corrected: no, this is Kaluga. What is the trick? The war does not require complex metaphors from the artist. Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev Yuri Sivachev: Moving the column of guns is a common thing at the front, but for some reason the artist is given an imagination.

At first the name was born. Where are they going? Then he added a little landscape, similar to Kursk, then he finished a few more steppes, as under Rostov, then something Kaluga. And the collective image of the country through which our guns go through. Each of this story itself already thinks out, based on his own front -line or rear experience, he recalls the sensations from meetings with such dusty machines that through the dirt and cold they make their way behind the sun ...

The war does not require complex metaphors from the artist. The simpler - the deeper. Each story itself already thinks out, based on its own front -line or rear experience. Combat everyday chronicle for you - already carries something epic, life? Yuri Sivachev: The picture has its own background. In one report, I heard those whom Sivachev wrote - remain alive. I have a portrait of a script guy: he was wounded twice so that it seemed - he would not survive, but he was alive.

Another hero of my picture, also an attack aircraft, sent me a video: hit the drone, a helmet to smithereens, his head in the scars, but laughs - in time, they say, I wrote my portrait, I am alive! Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev in the "Steams Molebne" I wanted to find a collective image of all Russian warriors. This is my prayer for all they are alive.

To create a picture received a blessing at one of the front -line priests. And I spied the plot of the canvas during one of our trips to the attack aircraft. There I saw how the priests bless before the battle. The early morning morning, loose snow, frozen pine trees, and in the middle of all this, all the attack aircraft and all the priests are on the knees. This condition, you will not see the mood in the photo.

You can't think of this. When you write the hero, cut off the excess, everything that distracts. Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev, when you write the hero, cut off the excess, everything that distracts.

Only the purity of the image, soul is important to a real artist. Judging by the exhibitions that you have passed in the zone of it, you have already written dozens of works at the front. Where do so many canvases on the front line - drag with you? It turned out the collective image of the country through which our guns are traveling. Those that brought with him - a primed cardboard - quickly ended.

Somehow, already desperate to find what to write a sketch on, I got into the construction store of the front-line town in the Kherson region.I look: tile is on the organ, and I am in a student, when there was not enough money for the canvases, I bought it and glued PVA glue instead of the soil. I say to the seller - sell the organ, and we will rearrange the tiles.

Not immediately, but agreed. The holiday was: as much as 20 cardboard for sketches. The artist in the war is never easy. Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev, the artist in the war is never easy - but it can hardly be otherwise. Vasily Polenov on the Balkan Front was an official painter at the Headquarters of Tsarevich Alexander. Judging by his letters, there was a real hell, but he did not complain in any line.

And the artists of the First World War, and the Great Patriotic War? The materials were tight. Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev, you continue to serve on a contract, but in addition to the front you also work in St. Petersburg, where there are no problems with canvases and generally calmer ... What kind of paintings do you write here? In December, he finished a picture on which more than 70 portraits.

What requires large rooms, battal scenes, for example, large -format paintings, where dozens of portraits of heroes are drawn. Just in December, he finished a picture on which more than 70 portraits. These are artists from the song and dancing ensemble of the Leningrad Military District I serve in this ensemble who travel to their zone and give concerts for fighters. The artist writes portraits of artists who travel to his zone and give concerts for fighters.

Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev, I also continue to write portraits here, I plan exhibitions. There are many of them. My personal exposition was recently opened at St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Emergencies named after General Army Zinichev, before that in the Papal Gallery of the Academy of Stieglits. The Academy, headed by the associate professor of the department of the drawing of Oleg Nikolayevich Yudin, is conducting the project "The Image of the Hero", where the students of Sv pose for students.

I was the first model of this project. At the opening of the next exhibition, I was presented with my portrait made by coal. Artists answer the question: what happens to a person in the war? Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev today there are many exhibitions about the heroes of the special operation in the country. Firstly, the time is for an artistic understanding of his own, and secondly, so far, after all, the filmmakers and writers are in no hurry with answers to the requests of society.

What happens to a person in the war? How did the special operation change us and how else will it change? Artists answer these questions. What should be a picture that could convey a generalized and accurate image of her? Yuri Sivachev: It is difficult to reflect in one image the whole essence of his own - the liberation of native people and lands from the fascism.

It should definitely be a series of paintings where the experience would be transmitted through the faces. The whole question is what persons? It is difficult to reflect in one image the whole essence of his own - the liberation of family and lands from the fascism. Photo: Someone advises from the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev: show the fighters in the blood, furious.

So people who are far from the front imagine. But on the faces of my heroes there is no expression of anger, they are alive, bright, sometimes exhausted, passed through suffering, but enlightened. The hero cannot be angry, he must do good out of evil - there is nothing more of ... On the faces of the heroes there is no expression of anger, they are alive, bright. Photo: From the archive of the artist Yuri Sivachev in the Kaliningrad Regional Historical and Art Museum is a series of my works: portraits, sketches and sketches.

Looking at this series, after decades, other generations will be able to understand about their - such was a technique, such trenches, such people ... And this is not the whole story of her, it is still awaiting the victorious ending! The hero cannot be angry, he must do good out of evil.