Actual artists and art practices of 1980-1990 on Ural. Digest
Leonid Tishkov
(Moscow)
CREATURES
Installation, objects, graphics, video
June 9-23, 2010

Press release

Contemporary art gallery "OkNo"
supported by Ford Foundation
and association "Unity of Journalism and Culture"

In the frameworks of project
"Actual artists and art practices of 1980-1990 on Ural. Digest"

presents the exhibition

Leonid Tishkov. Creatures
June 9-23, 2010

The gallery concludes the project "Actual artists and art practice 1980-1990 0n Ural. Digest" by exhibition of Moscow artist Leonid Tishkov.

The invitation of Leonid Tishkov for participating in the project is not casual. The fate of the artist is closely linked to the Urals. Here he was born, spent his childhood and adolescence (Nigny Sergi, the Sverdlovsk oblast), was filled with impressions, emotions, whose poetry grains sprouted subsequently with amazing art projects - myths about the Dablus, dabloids, chocks, stomaks, elephants "living in the trunk" divers, and stories about Vyazanik, Nikodim, "Air creatures", "Paintings of wind," "Day of the sky", "Private Moon". L. Tishkov's works of the end of 1980-1990 abound in numerous references to his native land.

In 1990's L. Tishkov - one of the first Moscow contemporary artists showing their projects in the province. So, the exhibition "Creatures" was shown in the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (1995), Center for Contemporary Art "Monolith" (Chelyabinsk, 1996) and the Novosibirsk Art Gallery (1996) after exposure in Duke University Museum of Art (USA, 1993), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber (Caracas, Venezuela, 1994), Epreuve d'Artiste Gallery (Lille, France, 1994), L-Gallery and Central House of Artists (Moscow, 1994). Undoubtedly, this exhibition influenced on surge of actual creative activity of the Ural artists, which was noted in the 1990's.

Artistic strategies of L. Tishkov are always original and unparalleled at the time of the first performance. For the artist cultivated by conceptual art all becomes material: memories, rags, garbage bag, roof of studio, macaroni, moonlight, sky overhead, the wind. With a wave of his imagination hidden images are developed and materialized in a word, graphic works, installations, video, photography, performance. Being clear to understand and insightful, they are always poetic in form of existence and unexpected in his lifetime.

Today Leonid Tishkov - known artist, whose exhibitions are held in museums and galleries around the world. His works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum, Moscow House of Photography, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), Ekaterinburg Museum of Art, MoMA (New York), Nasher Museum and Block Museum (USA), State Art Gallery of West Australia, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato, Italy), etc.

The exhibition at the gallery "OkNo" will include: installation "Dabloids" (1994-2010), propaganda posters "Dabloids", object "Diver" (1993), a series of graphic works "Divers", video: "War with Dabloids" (1998) "Simple actions of Dabloid" (1998), "Man and Dabloid" (2000), "Dr. Tishkov's Eucharist" (1999), audio-play "Divers" (1994) and a documentary about L. Tishkov "Snow Angel" (2005).

Curator: Svetlana Shlyapnikova

The exibition will be opened for public
from June 9 to June 23, 2010.

Время работы:
понедельник - пятница с 15:00 до 19:00,
суббота с 13:00 до 17:00

Working time:
Monday - Friday 15:00-19:00,
Saturday 13:00-17:00

Admission free.

The gallery address: 79A, Sonya Krivaya St.
(entrance via theatre studio "Maneken"),
municipal transport stop: South Ural State University

Art Director -- Svetlana Shlyapnikova
Gallery Director -- Dmitry Latukhin