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Nikita Alekseev. 54 Winters
Curator: Yuliya Lebedeva
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project description
Alekseev has recently been been fascinated with “visual memoirs”. One can call his new exhibition ‘The winter chronicles’ of the second half of the 20th century to the start of the 21st. Why winter? Because from time eternal people have counted their age in winters. Once you survive the frosts you can count in another year. He offers an out-of-body contemplation of history during the period from his birth in 1953 to the present, the winter of 2007.
The large panel is accompanied by forty-two small drawings, each with a note telling what events of historical importance occurred during a particular winter. For example, the “Doctors’ Case” was framed up in 1953, Putin became President in 2000, and nothing noteworthy has happened in 2007 thus far.
Nikita Alekseev is an artist of long standing. He has been on the Moscow art scene since the early 1970s. A co-founder of the Collective Action group (since 1975), the owner of APTART, the first apartment gallery (1982–1984), an artist, graphic artist, journalist and essayist.
Organiser: Museum “Other Art” at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)
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technical support
- Oleg Kormyshev
- Valery Surkov
- Aleksei Shibanov
- Sergey Vasyukov
- Roman Gretskiy
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information sponsor
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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