Aleksandr Morozov (artist) explained

Alexander Morozov
Birth Name:Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov
Birth Date:22 March 1974
Birth Place:Lugansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Luhansk, Ukraine)
Known For:Painting and installation art
Training:St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture
Movement:Contemporary art

Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov (Russian: Александр Александрович Морозов; born 1974) is a Russian artist based in St. Petersburg.

Life

Russian artist. Author of interdisciplinary research projects and sound installations.

1996–2002 St.Petersburg Academy of Arts 1999–2000 — Educational program in Pro Arte Institute ‘Practicum.

The artist became famous for the conceptual project Birds’ Flight Records, shown in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, France, Germany. The project documented the timing and trajectories of  birds flying in the surrounding landscape. Among his prominent projects are The Black Book and Icons series. The first explored the disappearance of cultural  memory, recreating the artefacts lost during the war. The second focused on paintings with everyday subjects made in the egg tempera technique, characteristic of European art in the 15th–17th centuries.

He participated in the 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale (2015), the 3rd Ural  Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), the 6th Moscow Biennale of  Contemporary Art (2015), and the parallel and public programmes for Manifesta  10, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art (2014, St Petersburg). Nominee of the Artaward International Strabag Prize (Austria, 2013), and the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (St Petersburg, 2013), Nominee of the 12th Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" (2019). Winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (2018) in the Best Visual Project category. Finalist of the 13th Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" for the project Dystopia Station (2021).

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Collections

External links

Notes and References

  1. Announcement of cultural events in Paris for April 2024 from RFI (Russian language https://www.rfi.fr/ru/%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B8/20240404-%D0%BE%D1%82-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D0%B2-%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BC-%D0%B4%D0%BE-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F
  2. Nariman Skakov. Garden of Romanticism https://www.academia.edu/9472889/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D0%B0
  3. Web site: Parazit. Black Envy . 2015-02-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150218164833/http://www.paralleleventsm10.ru/exhibitors121.html . 2015-02-18 . dead .
  4. http://www.proarte.ru/en/projects/perceiving-art/ Perceiving Art