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Name: Oleg Yanushevsky Wohnort: St. Petersburg/Rußland Titel der Arbeit: "Icon-Battery"

Oleg Yanushevsky`s works may be regarded as a Russian soul`s reaction to the changes in the state of the enviroment culture. The underlying idea of his art is based on the Russian Orthodox icon, though his works can`t be classified as the religious. The influence of technologies and philosophy has changed the art`s mentality over the last 40 - 50 years. A contemporary person has found themselves in the new conflict with history, society and nature. Of course, this fact couldn`t help drawing an analogy with the art. The artist managed to feel the social nature and his being in such conditions has become the essence of his product. His interest to the subconcious connected with the interest to the human history. In his works he is willing to show the invisible picture of reality, which is given to us by our existance and confirms it in his own way at the same time. Oleg mixes streamlined wooden forms that incorporate such diverse elements as radio receivers, microculculators, microphones, children toys, just like history and time mix together cultures, vulues and ideas. His "founded objects" are deep like genetic memory and might be deciphered on different personal and national levels. The artist is trying to represent the time as symbolic facts, which are read as the documents of history. It makes his works very cosmopolitan and poetic. We see the classical signs and objects with Bible characters and the reflection of the contemporary times, including the elements of other cultures. Oleg Yanushevsky calls these structures of his artistic production the "new icons" or "matrixes". Playing culture games, the new iconography composer invites his audience to participate in them. In his artistic objects he synthesis expencive original forms with cheap mass stuffing, and they generate a new sumple can be used for various purposes: mode on, play with and so on. Joining such games, switching on our memory and imagination each of us becomes a part of the "Matrix World"

Biographie:
Born 1959, Lugansk, Ukraine. Lives in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Painter, installation, action and performance artist. Founder of St. Petersburg Institute of Experiment & Performance, 1996. Curator of Festival of Experimental Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1996-2000.
Studied: Repin Academy of Art, St. Petrsburg, Russia (1983 - 1989). Awarded fellowship to Wimbledon High School of Art, U.K. (1990 - 1991).
Since 1986 participated in over 100 exhibitions and perfomances in Russia, Germany, Poland, U.K., Belgium, Holland, Finland and USA.

Recent Exhibitions

Academy of Art, Orhus, Danmark, 1989
Sommershow, National Gallery, London 1991
Landsgericht, Cologne, Germany, 1995
Evangelical Church, Much, Germany, 1996
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997
Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Centre, Warschaw, Poland, 1998
S.P.A.S. Gallery, Brussels,Belgium and De Wijk, Netherlands, 1996-00
III International Performance Festival, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Art in Suitcase, St. Petersburg, Russia and Lubeck, Germany, 1999
Berlin Art Forum, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Russian Museum,St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000
Melanchton Church Centrum, Essen, Germany, 2000
Glass Palace, Helsinki, Finland, 2000
Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA, 2001
"Petersburg Art Show", St. Petersburg, Russia, 2001

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