Zajzev, Vyacheslav

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Zaitsev is an outstanding fashion designer, painter, graphic artist, theater costume designer, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Prize of the President of Russia, active member of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, professor. Honorary Citizen of Paris and Honorary Citizen of his hometown Ivanov. Fashion is the leading area of the master’s art, his creative destiny. In this field he has been honored with awards that confirm his place among outstanding representatives of the fashion world. A significant and long-term area of creative activity of V.M. Zaitsev consists of theatrical costumes, scenography, theatrical posters. V.M. Zaitsev has made stage costumes for more than two dozen performances of the capital’s theaters. Along with fashion, V.M. Zaitsev is dedicated to painting and drawing. Using machines in art is not an auxiliary part of fashion: it has an independent artistic value. Highly aesthetic plastic by V.M. Zaitseva expresses generalized philosophical concepts, associations, and more often: feelings, moods, feelings of the author. The materials he prefers are pastel, pencil, felt-tip pen. His works are decorative, sonorous in color, pose and successfully solve complex semantic and formal problems. Personal exhibitions of V.M. Zaitsev took place in the USA (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles), Belgium (Berzel, Kortrek), Estonia (Tallinn). Five paintings and graphic works by V.M. Zaitsev belong to the State Tretyakov Gallery.