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 mystery of life's breath is between the poles of the spectrum, in the dynamics of an explosion or in the symphony of a stream, but not in a moment of peace cast in bronze.
The Environment that creates forms and the Environment that destroys forms exist in mutual tension. The moment of their harmonious oneness is expressed in "The Day of Creation" in the artist's variations, from the peaceful harmony of cold semitones to Dionysian turbulence; to the bluish yellow games of passion; and, still further, to nostalgic and elevated psalms in Paradise.
The artist's goal is not to invent a new letter of the alphabet of artistic methods: he is wrapped up in himself and, as it seems to me, is methodically developing his way, which gives him an opportunity to fully realize his deep potentialities. From the Valery Kharitonov of the decorative and theatrical to the Valery Kharitonov of the mystical and epic - this is both the path and the distance of the conflicting state of his works, in which every centimetre of the canvas is in itself a whole picture.
The colour palette of the artist is the path between existence and eternity, originating from the earth that gave birth to him; that is why, behind all the expressiveness of Kharitonov's works, we can feel the freckled qőietness of birch groves, the quietness and pensiveness of songs that were always a prominent feature of Russian art. Belonging to a romantic wing of the Moscow painting school, Kharitonov keeps to his own solitary way
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