Alexander
Vyacheslavovich Tokarev

Born in 1946 in Odessa. In 1966 he graduated from the Odessa art College named. Grekova. In 1972 he graduated from the art faculty of all-Union state Institute of cinematography. Joined the USDA in 1974 From 1964 participates in all-Union, Republican, international and foreign exhibitions. Personal exhibitions in Moscow and Paris. Works in easel compositions, landscape, portrait, still life, drawing, watercolor, sculpture, monumental art (mosaic, painting), the artist of theater and cinema. Print design, book graphics. Works are in museums and private collections: Russia, Ukraine, USA, England, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Finland, etc. Publications: the magazine "Youth", "Art", "Creativity", "Spark", etc.

(Source: website of the Moscow Union of artists)

Born in Odessa in the family of painters in 1946, lives and works in Moscow. In 1966 he graduated from the Odessa art school, then art and directing faculty of the all-Union state Institute of cinematography (VGIK). Since 1966 participates in all-Union, Republican and foreign exhibitions. Member of the Union of artists since 1974. From 1974-1980 he works in film as a screenwriter, Director, artist, from 1986 to 1992 – chief artist of the Moscow experimental musical theatre. In 1995-1999, has partnered with Mstislav Rostropovich (all projects in Russia).

Tokarev is the Creator of the famous series of works under the title "one MAN band", which brought him worldwide fame.

Over the last decade the artist has created several large-scale multipart works (polyptych). They are striking in their scale, a new form and unusual content. Each polyptych is a multi-value text, ironic and philosophical. After the exhibition in 2004, where Tokarev introduced some of his polyptych, the media dubbed him "the most intellectual and at the same time ironic artist of our time."