Audio and visual installations created by the legendary percussionist within the period of the past two years
The new project by Vladimir Tarasov is dedicated to the theme of memory, the remembrances of the past epoche and the friends gone.
The title of the artwork, Something Going On in Front of the Sea (2011) refers to Vladimir Tarasov’s first solo disc, named after the work of Yuri Dyshlenko, the outstanding artist who was born in Leningrad and tragically died in New York in 1995. Tarasov defines this work as dedication to Yuri Dyshlenko and a version of his painting.
The Bench (2012) is based on the series of photographs taken by Zakhar Kolovsky through the window of an old house in the centre of St.-Petersburg. The series was created in the span of two years in the early 2000’s and shows the changing seasons and likewise changing inhabitants of one courtyard as an image of a whole epoch that still keeps echoing.
Born in 1956.
1984 Graduates from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Control Automation Faculty.
2000 Graduates from Art History faculty of the St.-Petersburg Academy of Arts.
1986 Appointed General Director of St.-Petersburg branch of the A-Ya Society established by the Academy of Sciences and Moscow News office. Among the important institutes of St.-Petersburg art life established under the auspices of A-Ya are the Free Chair of Visual Art (1990), Contemporary Art Research Center (1991), Art Engineers school (1991), Sergei Kurekhin’s Space Research Center (1991), Contemporary Art and Design Center (1991).
1995 Appointed Director of St.-Petersburg branch of the National Centre of Contemporary Art.
1996 exhibition «FLUXUS VIRUS». St.-Petersburg – Moscow.
Projects created in partnership with ARS BALTICA international cultural organization:
• 1996 — ARS BALTICA – TRIENNALE DER PHOTOKUNST. Helsinki-Berlin.
• 1998 — Kaliningrad – Koenigsberg, the Fifth International Biennial of Graphics in the Baltic States, Kaliningrad.
• 1998 — Baltic Photography School established in St.-Petersburg with active participation of Z. Kolovsky. The Baltic Photo School is a unique educational structure for young photographers allowing them to learn from the experience of well known international and national masters through a series of lectures and practical seminars.
1996 Becomes Director of the Contemporary Art Project Curators School in St.-Petersburg. One of the many educational programs of the School is Use of Information Systems and Internet Resources for the Preparation and Implementation of Contemporary Art Projects (1999). School graduates take part in a number of outstanding projects including Yellow Movement, the exhibition of Vladimir Zagorov in the State Russian Museum (1997).
2002 Appointed Director of the National Centre of Photography established in St.-Petersburg. Meanwhile, Zakhar Kolovsky continues his art practice. The artworks by Zakhar Kolovsky are part of the collections of the State Russian Museum and the Latvian National Museum of Art. He considers the most important of his series the following:
2001– 2002 Windows 2002–2003 Electorate 2003–2007 Traces 2005–2007 Naval Architecture 2010 Emergency Ascent
Solo exhibitions
2006 Urban Landscape. Personal exhibition. Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga 2007
2009 Urban Landscape. A-YA Society, Saint-Petersburg 2010
Having started playing traditional jazz at the age of 14 in Arkhangelsk Sailors’ Club, Vladimir Tarasov has tried with years through almost every style and genre of music. The irreplaceable participant of GTC (Ganelin – Tarasov – Chekasin, 1971 – 1986), one of the most important ensembles in the recent history of Soviet jazz, today Tarasov is active not only as musician but as an artist of a much wider spectrum: he collaborates with symphonic and chamber orchestras in Europe and the USA, teaches and lectures in various countries, writes music for theatre and film, creates performances and installations.
Audiovisual installations installations of the legendary percussionist
A laconic and remarkable antithesis to contemporary mass culture, built upon the basic visions of the mundane and the natural
The exhibition at Mimara Museum (Zagreb)
Dedicated to the recent history of the Russian submarine fleet, to a large extent synchronous to the recent history of our country
Installation of American artist is dedicated to the nature of California and, more globally, to the problems of ecology
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