Semyon Faibisovich is known as a Russian painter, prose-writer and journalist. Faibisovich was born in 1949 in Moscow and studied at the Moscow Collage of Architecture. His work was first exhibited covertly in 1976 and after in 1987, more widely outside the Soviet Union. He was described as one of few photorealist painters working in Moscow. His work combines perceptive social criticism with a subtle and sophisticated visual poetry. The influence of the artist’s architectural education can be really felt in his meticulously conceived paintings which often subject a disquieting urban landscape to the gentle irony of a wise observer of Russian society.

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"The scenes that make up the field of his vision are reassembled and reinterpreted into pictures depicting people outside stations, in buses and metros, on the streets and the beaches. Although they were formed in a period that is passing, their relevance is timeless, for while Faibisovich's art is concerned to a significant degree with the actual, there is often a precisely indicated invitation to consider that what is apparently real, is almost certainly illusory: or vice versa. He is not beyond playing a game with mirror images, using window reflections to remove his subjects from their previously perceived environment into one that occupies several spaces at one and the same time. "Alisa Barstow,
Lifestyle [Moscow periodical]
12/01
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Semyon Faibisovich,
Mother and Daughter, Cycle: Trolley Bus, 2007
Mixed media, canvas
200X150cm

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