Volodya is unable
to talk about his life, he’s had no chance yet, he is not willing to show off
himself as a poor guy, he isn’t looking for sympathy and he understands well
that he has fallen out of the common stream of living. The artist uses only one
explanation: “I love all living creatures, but I love human beings less than
else”. During his 60 year life span he has never managed to use a single chance,
to make a single step to make his life better. He received invitations from many
galleries of various countries:
America,
Spain,
Sweden,
Germany,
France,
Italy,
but he’d never accepted. Before the Perestroika, when he could afford to go
abroad, the authorities never let him go and he was blacklisted as “Cultural
Heritage of Republic”. He was not aware of this fact, but for the Ambassador of
Luxemburg (Volodya has forgotten all the names and does not even try to remember
them, he is not interested in anything worldly), who in 1980 acquired one of his
paintings. The Ambassador naturally did not manage to get the painting abroad.
So the black list was uncovered.
And nevertheless Afonin’s paintings were taken abroad. In various ways. More
than 2000 canvases have been bought by banks, various companies, galleries and
private persons. IBM company, Bank of America, Italian, Swedish, Japanese
companies, diplomats, generals are proud to possess Afonin’s landscapes. One of
his paintings “Kiji in Winter” hung at Yuri Andropov’s when he was the head of
KGB. Andropov was given the painting as a gift by one Igor Sinitsyn, Afonin’s
friend. Andropov had never accepted gifts on principle, but he was charmed by
the “Kiji in Winter” canvas and accepted the painting as it “emitted light and
warmth” as he used to say later. The canvas had been hanging in Andropov’s
restroom for years. It was in the best place with a special booster light. The
KGB head had no idea about the artist being kept from going abroad because of
him. Now Volodya has the right to go abroad, but he cannot do that even if he
should want. His family keeps him from going. A couple of years ago Taiwan
president’s son, Head of Russian Art Promotion Foundation, invited Vladimir
Afonin and Valery Stoilov, his associate, to Taiwan to work with full board and
lodging.
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