Dear Guest Five years ago, my son died of leukemia. He is missed as powerfully now as then. The passage of time does not make his absence any easier to bear. However, your support of this foundation, which was established in his memory, gives my life purpose, direction and hope. The National Children 's Leukemia Foundation (NCLF) will persevere until a cure is found, until no mothers or fathers have to watch and wait helplessly, as this terrible disease takes their child. Donors save lives. Your financial support generates bone marrow donors through NCLF 's public awareness programs. 70% of the thousands of children who become sick with leukemia each year cannot find a match within their own families. There is a severe shortage of donors. My son died for the lack of one. There is a critical need to educate the general population about the low risk, and the immeasurable rewards, in human terms, of becoming a donor. Additionally, NCLF is a leader in the movement to harvest and store stem cells, which, collected from the umbilical cord at birth, eliminate the need for a donor. Stem Cell Banking is the best hope for a cure. I'd like to thank the artists for giving so generously of themselves, their time and their talent, to bring this event to fruition. If this auction is your first introduction to NCLF, we welcome you and invite you to learn more about us and our work. And, finally, I am so very grateful to those of you who provide continuing support of NCLF. Please, carry on with us until we find the cure-for the sake of all of our children. Thank you and God bless you. Sincerely,
Aleksandr Razin was born in 1958 in
Tashkent, Usbekistan, where, in 1982, he graduated from the College of Theater and
Art. At the beginning of Perestroika, when the iron curtain was lifted, the prominent art dealers from England and Germany went to Russia and the former republic to look for new
talent. They were captivated by Razin's work, and immediately started to exhibit him in their
galleries. Dr. Gerhard Bodenstein, of the Apex Gallery in Gottingen,
Germany, places Razin in the Usbekistanian Avant-gard, among those painters who pulled away from the strong conformity to traditional Islamic
art. His works, according to Bodenstein, represent "a successful linking of Orient and Occident and prove something like an international language of fine
art." Since 1991, Aleksandr Razin's paintings have been successfully exhibited and sold in some of the finest galleries in Europe, including the famous Cork Street Gallery in London. Razin emigrated to the United States less than one year ago. Razin's works evoke the spirit of the Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel, translated into the language of contemporary art. He paints panoramic views and mass scenes, and perhaps confronts similar issues concerning human society, all in heroic proportions and in the abstract manner. In "Exodus," for example, Razin addresses a universal subject, the fight for freedom, which has been repeated throughout human history. It is Razin's preoccupation with such eternal social issues that lends his work an epic like quality. Razin's works are in the collections of the State Museums of Tashkent, Kokand, and Kalingrad, and private collections in Great Britain, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Russia, Belgium, and the United States.
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