Sergey Vasilievich Solmi ( August 7, 1961 , Vladikavkaz - October 17, 2016 , Moscow ) - Russian artist , jeweler , photographer , screenwriter , sculptor , musician , poet ; one of the most famous representatives of the hippie movement in Russia [1] . Organized and conducted exhibitions, including was known for the creation of the festival "Love Street" [2] [3] . Since 1987, he headed the informal art group "Iris".
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| Date of Birth | August 7, 1961 |
| Place of Birth | Vladikavkaz , RSFSR , USSR |
| Date of death | October 17, 2016 (55 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russian Federation |
| Genre | artist, jeweler, photographer, screenwriter, sculptor, musician, poet |
| Style | Neo modern |
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Biography
From 1995 to 1998, he worked as chief artist of the newspaper "Light of Love" created together with Yuri Zadorin. After that, Sergei was invited to the post of chief artist in the publishing house of the Moscow Art Theater Theater. A.P. Chekhov to work on the preparation for the centenary of the foundation of the theater in 1998. In the publishing house of the Moscow Art Theater worked together with Alexander Trifonov . Many posters for the Moscow Art Theater and the Moscow Art Theater Museum were made on the basis of the drawings by Sergei Solmi. One of Sergey’s posters, where the Moscow Art Theater building in the form of a ship sails the sea, appeared on the cover of the pilot issue of Our Street magazine in 1999. In 2000, Sergei left the Moscow Art Theater and after two months of work in the magazine Hotel as the main artist went into freelancing .
“Sergey was a bright personality - a symbol of the hippie movement in Russia, but at the same time he was a thin, vulnerable person, difficult to integrate into normal life frames. Solmi was a man from space. ” Alexander Trifonov
In 2003, he participated in the Moscow hippie festival “Playing in Beads” together with the Eternal High musical group [1] .
He was buried at the Troyekurovsky cemetery .
Solo exhibitions
- 1986 - Personal exhibition. House of graduate students of Moscow State University, Moscow.
- 1986–1994 - represented the work at the festival "Love Street"
- 2008 - Personal exhibition. Gallery Garage, Nikolina Gora , Moscow.
Love Street Festival
| date | Location | Musicians | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | The house of a graduate student and intern at Moscow State University | The exhibition is closed by the KGB on the third day. | |
| 1986 (September 6) | st. Old Arbat | Street exhibition dispersed by police and the KGB | |
| 1987 (June) | The first festival "LoveStreet" and the first officially allowed exhibition of hippies in the USSR. Artists: Solmi with a group of "Iris", Sergey Pakhomov, Alexey "Evgraf" Belyaev, Yuri "Right Hand" Kotenko, Vladimir "Gluk" Belyaev, Dmitry Kretov, Nikita Golovin, Alexander Iosifov, Boris Volchek | ||
| 1988 (May) | Young Guard (publishing) | Crematorium , Wake me up at midnight, Wooden wheel , Yasha Sevastopolsky | |
| 1990 | Palace of Culture ZIL | Closed at the opening due to the work of Arthur Glichan. Reopened thanks to Alexander Kutikov | |
| 1992 | Milyutinsky garden | Green Kiss, Optimal Option , Eternal Kaif , Wake Me Up At Midnight, Pacific Ocean, Oleg Chilap | |
| 1993 | Milyutinsky garden | Mango Mango , Gray brother, Oleg Chilap , Olga Arefieva | Help in the organization: Alexander Gusev |
| 1994 | DK Military Academy of Armored Forces ; Milyutinsky garden | Bakhyt Kompot , Mango Mango , Tin Soldiers, Siskin & Co , Jazz Lobsters, Kegli Mowgli , Olga Arefieva , Cross Roads (Sergey Voronov) , Young Lady and Hooligan, Goodbye Motorcycle, Dust of Jackal , Eternal Kaif , Oleg Chilap and others. | |
Filmography
- 1986 - “It is worth only tightening the bowstring” (19 min., Director Nadezhda Khvorova)
- 1992 - “All the Power of Love” (83 min., Golden Ribbon Studio, 1990. Directed by E. Golovnya )
- 1992 - “Orphans of Lenin. Orphans of Lennon ”(57 min., No Gloomy Faces Production, Directed by Susan Kalish)
- 1999 - “Nix” (16 min., Studio “Florealal Cinema” Director Gennady Kurlaev)
- 2012 - "Hippies in the USSR" (13 min., Vitaly Kalinin workshop, Director Ekaterina Sopova)
Links
- The old site of the project Solmi "Street of Love" (links and e-mail addresses are inactive. The site has not been updated for more than 10 years)
Sources
- ↑ Own correspondent Star nicknamed the Sun: who was the "father of hippies" in the USSR //www.m24.ru. - 2014. - June 4th.
- ↑ Svetlova E. Time of yellow shoes // Moskovsky Komsomolets. - 2014. - 18 dec.
- ↑ Gendlin V. Conspiracy Rock // Kommersant-Money. - 2016. - July 11th. - p. 43.