History knows many cases when people of art, be they writers, poets or artists, became involuntary prophets not only in relation to their own lives, but also in relation to the lives of others. The schedule of Alexander Aksinin was no exception to this rule. Shortly before his death, he painted his own death.
Lviv Durer
Alexander Aksinin was born in Ukraine, in the city of Lvov in 1949. As a child, Sasha showed a unique talent for drawing. Therefore, it is not surprising that, along with an ordinary high school, the boy also attended an art school for several years, and then entered the printing institute with a degree in Graphics.
Fame came to Aksinin in the late 70s, when at an international exhibition in Poland, the artist was awarded an honorary medal. And 2 years later, his bookplate won the book sign competition for a Benedictine monastery, also located in Poland. Then many compared Aksinin with the brilliant German graphic artist Albrecht Durer, and that's how they called him “Lviv Durer”.
For 35 years of his life, Aksinin created more than 300 etchings. He worked so hard and was in such a hurry, as if he knew that he would soon die. After the death of the graphic artist, some of his paintings turned out to be prophetic.
Ludicrous disaster
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Alexander Aksinin died in a plane crash in 1985. On May 3, he returned from the Estonian capital Tallinn to his native Lviv. Subsequently, this disaster will be called one of the most mysterious and absurd in the history of the Union. A Tu-134 passenger plane collided with a military AN-26. There were 79 people on board the TU, and 15 people in AN. No one managed to survive.
As a result of the investigation of the tragedy, it turned out that it was caused by the notorious human factor. The controllers from Lviv were declared guilty of the accident, and they gave permission for the AN-26 to fly, not taking into account the fact that at the same time there was a passenger aircraft there.
Prophetic etchings
Perhaps due to a fatal coincidence, or perhaps in fact due to some kind of prophetic gift, in 1984 Alexander Aksinin created an etching called Icarus. It depicts a falling figure with wings. On the ground under Icarus, there are many filled faceted glasses, which are often left in front of portraits of the dead or in cemeteries.
In 1985, the year of the artist's death, a commemorative glass appeared on another etching by Aksinin "Resurrection". The glass is placed in a grave dug in a field. But it was in the field that the passenger plane fell, in which there was a talented schedule. But the most amazing thing is that Aksinin placed the projection of the grave in the form of a parallelepiped in a suspended state, in the sky, where the planes fly.