Anatoly Osmolovsky - very popular and clearlyan ambiguous figure of modern culture of Russia. It involves a cocktail of a talented artist and attentive curator, an opposition politician and an outrageous personality.
All his actions are inherent in humor and cynicism,who are on the verge of a foul. Some of his performances clearly violate the Criminal Code, but pursue good goals. He was born in the USSR and grew up in turbulent perestroika times. What kind of person is Anatoly Osmolovsky? The biography and creativity of this person will be discussed further.
Osmolovsky Anatoly Feliksovich was born in 1969year in Moscow. And he did the first tests of the pen exactly in the literary field during the restless time of perestroika. In 1987 he joined the little-known literary group "Vertep", replacing a year later membership in another group of more critical focus, with a name that corresponded to the spirit of that time - "Ministry of Defense of the USSR." Unfortunately, little is known about its activities in those days.
His talent artist Anatoly Osmolovsky beganmanifest in the early 90's, when led by the odious movement of E.T.I. (Expropriation of the territory of art). It was a kind of experiment of artists who wanted to express their attitude to certain events in unusual ways.
For example, one of the first actions was a performance onfarewell match of the legend of Soviet football Fedor Cherenkov. One of the founders of the movement as a fan for the first time in the history of the USSR ran out onto the field and, after shaking Cherenkov's hand, fled. Of course, after this, the police seized him. But it was the first ever such fan-racer on the field in the USSR.
Another unusual action was the festival "Explosion"New Wave ", which featured 15 of the best films of French filmmakers of the avant-garde new wave. At the end of the festival, on the screening of the movie "Zazi in the metro", the organizers decided to involve the audience in a retrospective: on the stage the actors repeated fragments from the film, then showered each other and the audience with cakes, and finally put on the network.
Anatoly Osmolovsky was the ideological mastermindone of the most notorious actions, as a result of which the bodies of the participants posted a well-known obscene word of three letters. The action was a kind of sarcastic cartoon on the recent law on morality and was held on the eve of Lenin's birthday. Of course, on all participants opened a criminal case, the closure of which contributed to the cultural elite of that time. Art critics consider this action to be the beginning of the movement of "actionism" not only in Moscow, but throughout Russia.
We remind you that Anatoly Osmolovsky, whose photo can be seen in the article, was one of the organizers of this action.
The last action of the group was the so-called"Clearing": the participants wanted to clear snow on the ground allocated for a football field and play on it, but they were detained by the police. Anatoly Osmolovsky took an active part in the preparation of this action.
Group E.T.I. broke up in 1992, when the program, according to the organizers, was exhausted.
After that, Anatoly Osmolovsky worked short-livedtime editor of the controversial cultural journal "Radek", published only three issues and revived in 2000 as a cultural society.
In 1993, Anatoly organized the "Netsziudik"a symbiosis of exhibition and performance activities. With this movement Osmolovsky again tried to revise the foundations of the postmodernists, making exhibitions and installations that undermined the established concepts of the new art.
In 1995, the Senate of Berlin and the exhibitionthe cultural center of contemporary art Kunstlerhaus Bethanien awarded the artist a grant for outstanding success in promoting unusual arts to the masses.
In 2008, Osmolovsky's talent was appreciated. He was awarded the Kandinsky Prize as the "Artist of the Year".
In subsequent years, Anatoly actively tookParticipation in cultural life, holding various exhibitions, publishing books, acting in films, organizing a pre-election race and, of course, shocking the public with his behavior.
His talent as an artist is appreciatedspectators and art historians, because his paintings are exhibited and kept in museums in Russia, for example, in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and abroad (gallery Ludwig Forum in Germany, Museums of Modern Art in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Antwerp (Belgium)). .
During all these years he took part in manypersonal and group exhibitions, each of which was not just an exhibition of paintings, but a manifesto of postmodernism and its relation to the realities of the modern world. After all, Anatoly Osmolovsky - is not only a modern artist, but a multi-faceted creator, whose brilliant ideas can not always be realized only by putting them on canvas.
One of the latest unusual projectsOsmolovsky became the organization of the "Baza" Institute, in which he is the rector. The concept of the Institute differs from simple teaching of art in the usual sense of this kind of institution. This training-research platform for people who are able to think and who want to learn this. For those who are ready to make extraordinary decisions and destroy the foundations of modern art. For all who are not ordinary, gifted and bold.
