Anatoly Osmolovsky
Anatoly Osmolovsky (Moscow, July 1, 1969 ), is a Russian visual artist, performer, theorist, editor and teacher. He resides in Moscow where he sculpts wood. Osmolovsky grounds his art in theory and supports his work with self-published writings in Radek (1993) and Base (2010) magazines and by teaching art history.
At the start of his career, the most important issues for Osmolovsky were those of power and revolution. Osmolovsky opposed the school of Moscow conceptualism.
In the mid nineties, there was a common element of male nudity and sexualized violence in the work of Moscow artists, including that of Osmolovsky. Osmolovsky was the leader of the anti-postmodernist movement, revolutionary Rival Programme NETSEZUDIK".
On the topic of post-modernism in post-Soviet Russia, he said,
In 2000, Osmolovsky talked about a new era of Russian art, full of fun, irresponsibility and superficiality. Viktor Misiano, curator of contemporary art, (born 1957, Moscow) in the text Reflexive fetishism in Anatoly Osmolovsky, explained the cause and consistency of Osmolovsky's transition from performance art and political protest to abstract and formal art.
Osmolovsky began his career in performance art with works representing protest, for example, against government institutions and the judiciary.
In 2013, Osmolovsky held his first solo exhibition in a private gallery in Europe at the Thomas Brambilla Gallery in Bergamo.
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