The series conceived and compiled by Isaak Kushnir. Album concept, curator - Marina Djigarkhanyan. Essays by Marina Djigarkhanyan, Mikhail German.

Levon Lazarev has a special gift to depict suffer. The space in which he works is organized by a complex idea of creative suffering. The complexity of this idea lies in the fact that suffer being evil by itself, has a powerful creative potential.

One has an impression that the flesh of sculptor's characters combines sensitiveness to external effects and resistance to any kind of violence. His settled personage is Christ, suffering, but winning and self-affirming through his crucifixion.

His portrayals of Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky and Shostakovich bear the stamp of his divine nature….Artists, who create in grief and suffering, who strengthen in the middle of demolition - these are the characters of L. Lazarev , and each of them in some sense can be called Christ, whose mission is inseparable from suffering the world disharmony at full completeness. This completeness becomes a measure of their creativity.

Many Lazarev's works resemble sculptures drawn out of ancient tombs. Seems like Time has left its ruthless, but valuable trace on them. As if the sculptor is forcing his characters to pass the trial of time. As to J. Baudriyar, the stamp of time adds the status of eternity to things. What was extracted from darkness and kept its outline at light, gives us hope for the most desirable thing - our immortality.