Anatoly Osmolovsky Explained

Anatoly Osmolovsky (Moscow, 1969 7, mf=yes), is a Russian visual artist, performer, theorist, editor and teacher. He resides in Moscow where he sculpts wood. Osmolovsky grounds his art in theory and supports his work with self-published writings in Radek (1993) and Base (2010) magazines and by teaching art history.

Concepts

At the start of his career, the most important issues for Osmolovsky were those of power and revolution.[1] Osmolovsky opposed the school of Moscow conceptualism.[2]

In the mid nineties, there was a common element of male nudity and sexualized violence in the work of Moscow artists, including that of Osmolovsky.[3] Osmolovsky was the leader of the anti-postmodernist movement, revolutionary Rival Programme NETSEZUDIK".[4]

On the topic of post-modernism in post-Soviet Russia, he said,

"The future of contemporary art is in the will to utopia, in the breakthrough into reality through a membrane of quotations, it is in sincerity and pathos."[5]

In 2000, Osmolovsky talked about a new era of Russian art, full of fun, irresponsibility and superficiality. Viktor Misiano, curator of contemporary art, (born 1957, Moscow) in the text Reflexive fetishism in Anatoly Osmolovsky, explained the cause and consistency of Osmolovsky's transition from performance art and political protest to abstract and formal art.

Works

1990

Osmolovsky began his career in performance art with works representing protest, for example, against government institutions and the judiciary.

1992

1993

1995 - 1999

2000 - 2003

2004 - 2005

2006

2007

2008

2009 - 2012

2013

External links

Notes and References

  1. Richardson J. "Anarchitexts." Autonomedia, 2003 p60, 9781570271427
  2. Groys B. "History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism." MIT Press, 2013 p8, 9780262525084
  3. Jackson M. J. "The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes." University of Chicago Press, 2010 p248, 9780226389417
  4. Renfrew A. and Tihanov G. "Critical Theory in Russia and the West." Routledge, 2009 p177, 9781135254964.
  5. Epstein M. and Genis A. "Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture." Berghahn Books, 1999 p460, 9781571810281
  6. Osmolovsky A. "Rejection of museums!" Taylor and Francis 2004, volume 3.
  7. Hoptman L. J. and Pospiszyl T. "Primary Documents: A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central European Art since the 1950s." The Museum of Modern Art, 2002 p330
  8. Mangione G. "Anatoly Osmolovsky’s radical artwork goes on show in Venice." The Calvert Journal, a guide to creative Russia, online magazine. 15 August 2013. Accessed 29 April 2014.