Garik Assa Biography

In the year, Garik Assa came to Leningrad from Khabarovsk [2]. Garik Assu is considered one of the most noticeable figures of the unofficial artistic life of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the author of the "stylish" images of artists and musicians of that time [3]. Assa picked up clothes for speeches by Jeanne Aguzarova [3], collaborated with Victor Tsoem [4].

Participated in many performances "pop-mechanics." He founded the avant-garde house of the Ai-da-Luli models. In the year, Garik Assa conducted his author’s broadcast on underground art and fashion on the Internet Television of Eurasia-TV, on the history of Russian art-conservation from x to our years [5]. In December, the exhibition “The Latest Romantics of the Soviet Union” was opened in the Zverevsky Center for Contemporary Art, composed of works donated by Garik Asse with famous modern artists [6].

In October, he was posthumously awarded the Supernik Prize in the special nomination “Long Play” [7]. Quotes “Garik, as a true artist, did not create pictures, but life itself. And thereby attracting the best artists of that time, who, of course, were busy with a continuous process of life creation, but managed to draw something. The key event of this place was the show of avant -garde fashion with the participation of Belgian fashion designers.

The action began with the poems of Mount Chakhal or German Vinogradov slowly rang with its designs. The girls defiled. In literally five to ten minutes, the audience was introduced into a stupor. In fact, the costumes were just paints in the palette of artists ”[9] - Garik Assa, what does the artist need paints for? Or brushes? They are a tool for him. Here are things for me - a tool.

Well, what about the fact that there is no more silence? Things are now in bulk - even more than it was. But it's not about them. The main thing is the taste. I made an extract from all cultures, created a quintessence of my alchemical, adding our Russian recklessness to Western fashion. I have no competitors and will never be. With Gauthier, do I compete? Or with Galliano?

I beg you. They did business, and we just frolic. I did not earn a penny, on the contrary, I spent it, we dressed everyone on my money. Fortunately, everything cost a penny. Many things simply gave me. The scouts were dead, and the costumes sewn for them to order remained. And we wore all this, showing with all the appearance that we are not some kind of cattle, but, so to speak, High Intelligence.

However, this is how it is actually ”[10] - Garik Assa, links.