cameo:Sviatoslav Nikitenko
cinema:Rustam Khamdamov
design:Etienne Boyer
Stas Chermensky
dolls:Ekaterina Manshavina
drawing:Adgur Dzidzaria
Akhra Adzhindzhal
Rustam Khamdamov
Varvara Bubnova
painting:Adgur Dzidzaria
Alexander Lozovoy
Gennady Lakoba
Ivan Titov
Levars Butba
Nikolay Kabanov
Pedro Clavijo-Parrado
Rustam Khamdamov
Shavkat Abdusalamov
Stas Chermensky
Valery Kharitonov
Victor Lysakov
Vladimir Andreenkov
performance:Alexander F. Sklyar
Birthday of Piero
Hibla Gerzmava
photo:Katya Shkolnik
Svetlana Petrukhova
Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev
skulpture:Gennady Lakoba
Vladimir Andreenkov
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12.04.2006
 The genealogical roots of Valery Kharitonov go back to antiquity and to Russian orthodox mysticism. They go back to Platonic ideas about the immortality of the soul and to the epic heaviness of forms; they are in his inclination to canonic simplicity and orderly perfection.
The mystical expressionism of today's Valery Kharitonov reveals itself in the variations of the state of exploded time, in which the artist is looking for the threads of the ruined connection between man and the Creator. It also reveals itself in the inevitable apocalyptic motifs, although without their traditionally tragic crescendo.
The turn of the millennium pervades not only the artist with eschatological consciousness; nevertheless, both his intuition and experience possess a primary value for culture. In Kharitonov, the movement of the objects of the Environment towards a certain flower-bearing end is rather some inner state experienced repeatedly, a peculiar kind of transformation, the instant of the wheel of the eternal return where the chaos of just-broken form is followed by a new creative act. Thus, in the confines of one plastic idea, the aggressive red burns the blue and the yellow in order to spread the canvas with green…
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