Career
Roginsky was one of the leaders of Soviet Nonconformist Art and the creator of the modern national visual method, with its laconic means and inner expressiveness. Alexander Glezer, who organized the now famous exhibition of non-conformist art in Moscow that was bulldozed by the authorities in 1974 described Roginski and his art in these terms:
"In 1964 Roginsky got onto Soviet posters - street and railway ones, id est (that is) things crudely done and expressing fairly accurately the essence of Soviet reality. Roginsky found the reality of that time interesting and sought to express lieutenant
As a result, having started with poster, he created Soviet People’s-Artist
In those times this did not surprise or intimidate anyone. lieutenant was closed and that was all.
And the artist kept working. He got more and more into objects - the things surrounding us in our everyday life.
(During the war) there was poverty everywhere and people got into the habit of having simple things.
Foreign me those things symbolize Russia". In 1978, Roginsky moved to Paris. One year before his emigration he had gone back to documentary art and did a series of five or six works with cans.
"I felt (he explained) that I had to go back to what I had begun with, to return to myself".
He left Russia shortly after he had finished that series. Roginsky answer to the question whether the West had any influence on him, was brief: "Sure".
But he could not say exactly what. "Everything, (he believes) a different life, a different atmosphere, a different reality.
I am generally very much influenced by where I live, what I see around me, what kind of art I behold and the type of people I rub shoulders with"".
He died on July 5, 2004 in Paris.