Andrei
Khanov

Russia • Moscow • born in 1964 • artist
Andrei Khanov (conceptual artist)
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Khanov Andrey Vladimirovich, Leningrad underground artist (1) (2) (30). Member of the regional cultural movement in Siberia (15) (16).

The practice took place in Leningrad in the 1980s and early 1990s. (1) (2) (3) (31) In the cities of Siberia in the 1990s (7) (8) (9) (13) (15) (17) (32), in Moscow in the 2010s (27).

Member of the art group "Concession" (1) (2), humanitarian fund "Free Culture" (3)
Directions: abstract art (4), lyrical abstraction with the inclusion of figurative and symbolic elements (1), street art (1) (33), ornamentalism (27), modern mythology (7) (8) (13).

Born 12/22/1964 in Novosibirsk (7).

“The artist’s work is revealed in the context of the connection between domestic and world cultures” (23). "Draws spontaneously arising images of all the light that is in the soul." (27) (35) "Enjoys color, line, stream of paint, reflecting on the eternal, presenting painting as music." (24)

The artist’s performance pitches (17) (34) sparked a university discussion about the problems of visualizing the meaning of culture (18) (19) (20), the semiotics of the archetype symbol (21), and the problems of creating artificial intelligence (19).

References

Some exhibitions and promotions:
1988. "Vanguard on the fence", Nevsky Prospect, Leningrad.
1991. "Drawn Barriers Against GKChP Tanks," Gostilitskoye Shosse, Leningrad Region.
1993. "Modern self-portrait", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg. Exhibition catalog.
1993. "The World of Religious Images - The Connection of Times", GMIR (State Museum of the History of Religion).
1995. "Siberian Culture - The Connection of Times", Museum of Novosibirsk State University.
1996. "Rock and contemporary painting - the connection of time", Museum "Tomsk Pisanitsa", Kemerovo.
1997. "Festival of the Clean Plague", performance, platform in front of the main building of Novosibirsk State University. Press digest. Archive of the newspaper (p. 6).
2012. "From Myth to Contemporary Art", Museum of KemGIKI (Kemerovo State Institute of Culture).
2012-2013. "Ornamentalism - Terra Incognito", Moscow Municipal Gallery "On Kashirka".

Full list of exhibitions from the artist’s archive.

More details.
The institutions of modern art mention the artist:

Handbook of St. Petersburg art - University of Michigan, USA (together with the encyclopedia St. Petersburg, established by the St. Petersburg Committee on Culture and the Likhachev Foundation) - relates creativity to lyrical abstraction with the inclusion of figurative and iconic elements, as well as street art :

1988, "Vanguard on the fence",
1991, "Roadblocks against GKChP tanks."
1993, "Exhibition at the Museum of the History of Religion", the museum combines the artist's works with his main collection of sacred paintings of all times and faiths.

1988. Participation in the early exhibitions of the art group "Concession". Wikipedia article.
1990. Participation in the activities of the Free Culture humanitarian foundation, now - the 10 Pushkinskaya art center, the heir to the TEII (experimental art partnership).

Archive of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Garage, in conjunction with the Zimmerly Museum at Retgers, State University of New Jersey, USA and the East European Research Center of the University of Bremen, Germany:

1993. Participation in the exhibition "Modern Self-Portrait" (exhibition catalog) - the first large-scale public display of the Leningrad underground of the 1980s.
Relates creativity to abstract art.

Other references:
1993-1997. Participation in the regional intellectual movement in Siberia:

University scientific articles by Evgenia Demidova, chief curator of the Tomsk Pisanitsa Museum, Kemerovo - on the artist’s work (Omsk State University, Shushenskoye Museum-Reserve, Krasnoyarsk Territory).

Siberian art (Wikipedia article)

Memoirs of the director of the Museum of Novosibirsk State University Lydia Vorobtsova in the newspaper "University Life" and on the website of the University "NSU in the faces."

Exhibitions at the Tomsk Pisanitsa Museum, Kemerovo, in conjunction with the Museum of the Kemerovo State Institute of Culture.

Articles on cultural studies in encyclopedias for students (Studopedia, Studfiles).

Earlier - a course of lectures of the RUDN University, Moscow, now the link is not active), but the archive has been preserved.

2016. Mention of the problem of visualization of meaning posed by the artist at the international scientific conference "Art and Visual Culture" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Scientists cite fragments of the artist’s report, include it in the context of a discussion about the problem, along with well-known philosophers and refer to the artist’s memory of the performance:

2017. State University of Baghdad, Iraq. (Collection of the Moscow Scientific Forum, Moscow, Russia).
2017. Kiev Academy of State Personnel in the Field of Art and Culture, Kiev, Ukraine:
Academy website
collection of scientific articles of the Institute of Arts and Crafts at the Academy of the Republic of Belarus,
joint collection of scientific articles of state universities of Lviv, Ukraine and Olsztyn, Poland).

2020. Public letter (article) of the candidate of philosophical sciences of the Saratov State University Stanislav Gromakov about the dissonance of the impression that the artist makes in communication and which his paintings produce. In the context of the main issue of philosophy. Dissonance - interested, paintings reveal an inner vision of life. Forum "Philosophical assault".

References in articles by art critics and curators:

2014. Alena Grigorash, Moscow art critic, Ph.D. Article about the artist. "Draws in the context of the connection of domestic and world cultures."
2012. Elena Koveshnikova, professor, director and curator of the museum of the Kemerovo State Institute of Culture. In the context of a series of exhibitions "From Myth to Contemporary Art". "Draws music."
2013. Lyudmila Chekalina, curator of the Moscow municipal gallery "On Kashirka". In the context of the exhibition "Ornamentalism - Terra incognito." "Draws spontaneously arising images of all the light that is in the soul."

Press:


2016. Caravan of Stories magazine published his memoirs of the 1980s and 1990s and photographs.
1997. The Izvestia newspaper and others published an article on the artist's performance, “Feast of the Clean Plague,” and others.

Documentary films were made about the artist:

1988. "Vanguard on the Fence", thesis of graduate students of West Berlin State University, West Berlin, Germany.
1996. "Valley of the Happy Mountains", directed by Dmitry Lazutkin, Krasnoyark.
2018. "Exhibition on the Fence", directed by Sergey Kukharuk, Lobnya, Moscow Region.
2019. "Sphere", director Sergei Kukharuk, Lobnya, Moscow Region.
2015. Raul Skrylyov’s film about the artist’s work in the workshop “There is no time”.
2013. The first educational channel. "We draw a sunny batik"
2015-2018. A series of photo portraits by Raul Skrylyov about the artist's performances.
2016. Archive of filming in the studio of the artist of Channel One.
2017. Archive of shooting in the studio of the artist of the TV channel "Country".

In full - at the moment - the artist’s archive is not described by experts. Such an analysis of his practice began only in 2004. From the publication in the encyclopedia "St. Petersburg". Interested specialists can take part in the analysis of the archive.

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