Aksinin Alexander

The Ukrainian graphic artist Oleksandr Aksinin was called the "Lviv Dürer" for his perfect mastery of the etching technique and precise processing of details, the "Piranese of the 20th century" for his dramatic and impeccable designs, and the "Ukrainian Bosch." Oleksandr was born on October 2, 1949 in the family of Dmytro Aksinin, a military cartographer, and Lyudmila, an employee of the Lviv Railway. His grandmother Oleksandra Nesterova was repressed and after 10 years in exile, in 1952, moved to live with her daughter in Lviv. It was the grandmother, who was a teacher of Russian language and literature, who influenced the upbringing and education of the future artist. From 1956 to 1966, Oleksandr studied at the prestigious 52nd secondary school in Lviv. His artistic talent was revealed from a young age. From 1963 to 1966, he attended the evening art school, which was located on the third floor of building No. 9 on the square. Mickiewicz, who no longer exists. Since then, many of his drawings have been preserved. 1967-1972 studied at the Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute named after Ivan Fedorov, at the graphics department. After graduating from the academy and before being drafted into the army, he worked for several months as an art editor in the Lviv Regional Department of Publishing, Printing and Book Trade. From May 1973 to May 1974, he served in the army: first in Brody, and later in Lviv, he was sent to participate in the design of the exhibition of the Army Museum of the Carpathian Military District. Since 1974, Aksinin worked as a designer at the OKB of the Ministry of Light Industry. But in 1977, he left official work forever and devoted himself exclusively to art as a freelance artist. The apartment of Aksinin and his wife, the writer and artist Hela Buryakovska, became one of the centers of informal art in Lviv, where the first "apartment" exhibition took place. Aksinin's creative partners are Dmytro Prygov, Viktor Kryvulin, Ilya Kabakov, Oscar Rabin, Eduard Horokhovsky, Vsevolod Nekrasov and Henry Saphir. Aksinin also befriended and closely collaborated with Baltic artists, the most famous of whom is the Estonian graphic artist Tinis Vint, with whom he has a deep creative understanding, as well as Stasis Eidrigevičius, Vello Vinn, Mare Vint and Volodymyr Makarenko. Aksinin also maintained contact with Polish artists - Stanislav Fialkowski, Andrzej Strumillo, Wojciech Jakubowski. In 1981, Aksinin wrote his laconic autobiography for Viktor Krivulin's article, where he deliberately contrasted his inner world with external events, and combined the facts of the biography with his own artistic and metaphysical experience: In 1949, a seemingly Russian man was born in the seemingly European city of Lviv. Orthodox. 1972 — diploma of the Polygraphic Institute, majoring in graphics. The year 1977 is the 1st revelation with accompanying sense of time. The year 1981 is the 2nd revelation with the accompanying sense of eternity. 1979 — the first personal exhibition in Tallinn. 1981 was the second year in Poland. All. Since 1974, Aksinin participated in group exhibitions; In 1979, his first personal exhibition was organized in Tallinn with the assistance of the artist T. Vint. On May 3, 1985, two planes collided head-on in the sky near Zolochiv: a passenger Tu-134A flying Tallinn—Lviv—Chisinau, and a military transport An-26 flying from Lviv to Moscow. As a result of the collision, all 94 people on both planes died, including Oleksandr Aksinin. Aksinin created 343 etchings (not counting the large number of printing and design options), about 200 sheets of unpublished graphics (watercolor, ink, and gouache drawings, including prints of etchings), and five paintings. 27 volumes of the artist's diaries for the years 1965-1985 contain more than 200 sketches and a large number of idea drawings. Tatiana Bilinska-Siper, actually Aksinin's second wife, preserved and organized his artistic heritage and personal archive. Aksinin's etchings were awarded twice (in 1979 and 1985) with honorary medals of the international biennale "Small forms of graphics" in Łódź. In 1981, Aksinin's bookplate, made for the library of the Abbey of the Benedictine Order (Lyubin, Poland), was recognized as the best at the competition dedicated to the 1500th anniversary of St. Benedict. In 1990, O. Aksinina