Leonid Tishkov
| Leonid Tishkov | |
|---|---|
 Тишков_портрет_рауль_скрылев.jpg | |
| Born | 4 May 1953.[1] |
| 🏫 Education | First Moscow State Medical University[2] |
| 💼 Occupation | Artist |
| 🌐 Website | https://leonidtishkov.com/ |
Leonid Tishkov (Nizhniye Sergi, Ural, 1953) is a Russian artist. He was born in a school teacher’s family in a small town of Russia, on the Urals in 1953, and now he lives and works in Moscow. Leonid Tishkov started his artistic career making cartoon-like works in the 1980s that focused on ironic, black humor and political aspects.
He was a member of a group of cartoonists at the Moscow City Graphics Committee, where many artists of unofficial art were members. He developed friendships with the artists of Moscow conceptualism, participated as an illustrator in the book collections of the Moscow Archive of New Art. He was a part of an informal association of artists whose workshops were located at Furmanov Pereulok and Chistye Prudy.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, his work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aimed to engage the viewer into absurdist situations with fictional cartoon characters and an admixture of theatrical action.
In 1993, Leonid Tishkov’s first solo exhibition was held at the Museum of Duke University, now the Nasher Museum of Art, which in 1994 was shown in MACSI in Caracas (Venezuela).
In 1995, an exhibition "Dabloids and Elephants" was held at Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, USA[3].
In 1996, a large installation of "Dabloids" was shown at the Center for Contemporary Art Fargfabriken[4] and inside Dabloids there was the performance "Dabloids", directed by Mikaela Granit[5]. The project was curated by Jan Aman.
At the same time, Tishkov, drawn to the theme of memory, creates a set of objects, videos, and photos about his native place – the Urals – using different kinds of folk art and found materials – clothing and household utensils. These are such projects as “In the field of my father”, “Uman” and “Roll the field”, which Tishkov did with the curator Victor Misiano, editor-in-chief of the Art Journal Moscow Art Magazine[6].
Leonid Tishkov is a participant of the Singapore International Art Biennale 2007, Ichihara ART x MIX Triennale (2014, 2017, 2020).[7], Setouchi Triennale (2019)[8]
Leonid Tishkov’s poetic and metaphysic oeuvre is realized in a diverse range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography, works on paper and books.
Since 2000 the artist intensifies the romantic, even metaphysic tradition, which was fully manifested in a series of performances "Anthology of Heaven" (1999-2002), carried out on the roof of the artist's studio, and a long-play history of "Private Moon” (2003-2020). For the first time, he made the light object in the shape of a crescent Moon for the installation for open space, traveling to different countries and continents including Russia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Austria, France, Switzerland, and the Arctic.
A committee of the state prize in the field of modern art “The Innovation-2017”[9] awarded Leonid Tishkov an honorary title, the Artist of the Year, for the solo exhibition “Look Homeward”.
Arctic Expedition
In 2010, by an invitation of David Buckland[10], Leonid Tishkov took a trip as a member[11] of the 9th Art & Science expedition to the Arctic. For 22 days, the crew of 20 voyagers sailed around Svalbard and Spitsbergen on the Noorderlicht. Five marine scientists and 10 artists from around the world – writers, musicians, visual artists, directors, and architects – sailed from Longyearbyen around the north-east coast of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian arctic to encounter the magnificence of this extreme and threatened environment and engage with the scientific research being conducted on board.
Russian artist Leonid Tishkov created a poetic story of the Private Moon Journey to the Arctic; a video was filmed and an “Arctic Album” was drawn, in which the artist highlighted the environmental problems associated with global warming.
In 2013 Leonid Tishkov demanded that his artworks be removed from a Gazprombank-sponsored exhibition in Vienna[12] in a show of solidarity with the Greenpeace activists who faced up to 15 years in jail after trying to scale an Arctic oil rig[13].
“Private Moon” project
“Private Moon”[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. In the upper world, in fact in the attic of his own house, he saw the Moon falling off from the sky. Once she was hiding from the Sun in a dark and damp tunnel. But the passing trains frightened her. Now she came to this man’s house. Having wrapped the Moon with warm blankets, he treated her with autumn apples, gave her a cup of tea, and when she got well he took her in his boat across the dark river to the high bank overgrown with moon pine-trees. He descended into the lower world dressed in the clothes of his deceased father and then returned from there lighting up his path with his personal Moon. Crossing the borderline between the two worlds across a narrow bridge, immersed in a dream and taking care of this heavenly creature, the man became a mythological being living in the real world as in a fairytale. Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right.
Therefore, each picture is accompanied by my own verse, which I wrote when I drew my sketches for the photographs. So it turns out that the Moon overcomes our loneliness in the universe uniting many of us around it.” Leonid Tishkov
Works
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Leonid Tishkov Dabloids installation in Museum of Contemporary Art -
Leonid Tishkov Journey of the Private Moon 2003-2016 -
Leonid Tishkov_Luna De Chirico installation -
Leonid Tishkov The Cube of Eternity and Private Moon installations -
Leonid Tishkov Uman installation 2017 Human Condition project Ekaterina foundation -
Snow Angel
Collections
- MoMa, Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA[22]
- Nasher Museum of Art, NC, USA[23]
- Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, USA
- Contemporary Art Centre Uyazdovsky Castle, Warsaw
- Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
- Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
- Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
- Hermes Collection, Paris, France
- Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach, Germany
Personal exhibitions
- 2019 Cosmism of Leonid Tishkov, NCCA Vladikavkaz, Russia
- 2018 Private Moon, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
- 2017 Private Moon, Astrakhan State Art Museum, Astrakhan, Russia
- Look Homeward, NCCA. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Light All Around, Historical Architectural Museum of Tula, Russia
- 2016 Look Homeward, Perm State Art Gallery, Russia
- Look Homeward, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Russia
- 2015 Journey of the Private Moon in Romania, National Museum of the
- Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
- Look Homeward, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
References
- ↑ "Art Facts". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Krokin Gallery". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Center for Contemporary Art Fargfabriken". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Mikaela Granit". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Moscow Art Magazine". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Ichihara Artmix". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Setouchi Triennale". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "The Innovation-2017". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "David Buckland". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Arctic Expedition". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Protest". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Greenpeace". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Private Moon". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Private Moon". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Private Moon". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Private Moon". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Private Moon". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Private Moon". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Wall Street International Magazine". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Vogue Magazine". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "MoMa". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ↑ "Nasher Museum of Art". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
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