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		NASONOV Arkady

Biographical information: Born in 1969 in Ekaterinburg
In 1991 finished Moscow Academical Theatre Institute (stage design)
In 1991 found The Cloud Commission art group (with D.Ligeros,T.Detkina etc)
In 1995 found The TARTU poetry society (with S.Anufriev,A.Sobolev)
From 1998 editor of "Sanatorium" art magazine
1999 - 2000 stipendium of the Rijksakademie van Beelden Kunsten in Amsterdam
2000 Grant of Dutch Institute in Rome, Uriot prize Amsterdam
2001 Fellowship of La Napoule Art Foundation
2002 stipend in Kunstlerhaus Worpswede
From 2002 - the member of Inspection "Medical Hermeneutic" group
From 2004 director of "Single Viewer Gallery"
Collections where works are held
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: Solo Exhibitions:
2006 `The Tonnel to Antipodes` VP studio, Moscow
Cartured by film, Krokin gallery, Moscow
2005 "Double Tourism" Art-Strelka Reflex gallery Moscow
"A leak of information" (with S.Anufriev) State Tretyakovskaya Gallery Moscow
`In weather we trust` VP stidio, Moscow
2004 "Nasonov`s Bessonnik or Ethymology of dreams" State Center of Contemporary Art Moscow
"The Cloud Commission follows suit" Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery Moscow
"Book`s Negatives" Overcoat gallery Art Moscow
2003 "Ethymology of dreams" Freud dreams museum St Petersburg,Guelman gallery Kiev
"The same time..." VP studio Moscow
"What is falling..." (with E.Verkerk) Tanya Rumpff gallery Harlem
"A bird on a shelf is worth a book in the bush"(with E.Verkerk) Pictura Dordrecht
2002 "These eyes look on you" Overcoat gallery Berlin Art Fair
2001 "Empty Olympus-1" Fine Art Gallery Moscow
"The Gift of an Owl" Hall of Moscow in House on Brestskaya Moscow
"Into Exile..." Moscow Fine Art Gallery
1999 "Empty Olympus" Overcoat gallery Amsterdam Berlin
1998 "The Great No One`s" (with S.Anufriev) "L" gallery Moscow
"The Rest of a straight regime" (with M.Shilova) Studio 50A Moscow
1997 "The Ascension of the Observer to Meteorology" "L" gallery Moscow
1996 "The Number of Zero Commissar" Center for Contemporary Art Odessa
1994 "Three greetings from Siam"(with A.Sobolev) Obscuri Viri Gallery Moscow

Selected group exhibitions:
2006 `Art Moscow` Central House of Artists Moscow
2005 I st Moscow Biennalle State Tretyakovskaya gallery `Art Moscow` Central House of Artists Moscow
2004 "Psichodely of Russian Tale" Larec gallery
2003 International art festival"Art-Klyazma" "Fine art" Fine art gallery Moscow
"Moscow cinema" IFA gallery Berlin
2002 "Contemporary Russian Painting" New Manezh Moscow "Motherland and fatherland" Moscow Forum of Art Initiatives New Manezh
"The Haunted House of art" Amsterdam
"Verbonden Beelden 4" Tanya Rumpff gallery Harlem
"In a search of personal syndrome" Kiev
"Estonia" Guelman gallery Moscow
"Summer vacation" Moscow Fine Art gallery
"Moscow minimalism" Art Fair Frankfurt
"Melioration" Art festival on Klyazma
2001 "Art for fun" Museum of Cultural Heritage Kiev
"Kukart-2" international festival in St Petersburg
2000 "Pole of Cold" Akademie Bazar Paris
" The star of MG" Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Central House of Artists Moscow
1999 "PG magazine" Spider and Mouse gallery Moscow
"Panglos" Moscow
"Art-Mith" Central Hall Manege Moscow
"Trans-format" DOM Moscow
"Total recall" Center for Contemporary Art Moscow
1998-99 "About love" England Slovakia
1998 "Euroremont" Slavyansky Bazar Moscow
"Tzar Solomon`s Copies" Photobiennale 98 Moscow,studio 50a, FENSO Museum, Institute of contemporary art Moscow
"250 thousand miles" Central Hall Manege Moscow
"Art Manezh" Central Hall Manege Moscow
"Fauna" Maly Manezh New Hall Moscow
"Praprintium" Bremen Cologne

Performances and actions:
2002 "Veterans and vegetarians" Theatre in Utrecht
"TARTU society" Guelman gallery Moscow
2001 "Sky finger -prints" Tounisie , Amsterdam
2000 "Antipodes" with "Sonic Monks" group Artis Den Bosch
"Green light street" Red light district Amsterdam
1999 "Smuggle project" Maastricht, Aachen
"Three buddahs" Push King club Moscow
1997 "Everything about nothing" "Substancia" radiostation
1996 "Digital poetry" "Third Way" club Moscow
1994 "Cloud Comission and Obscuri Viri" Moscow planetarium
1993 "Cloud Commission prints the book" Moscow graphic studio
1992 "Gambling house" Workshops at Petrovsku bul. Moscow
"Incrimination" Tsaritsino Moscow etc.
1991 "Clean rug" ART MITH-1 Central Hall Manege Moscow
"Parents and sons" VDNH Moscow
"Culinarian exeget" Warsaw
"Cocoons" Stanislavsky museum Moscow
"Cats and topography" Botanic Garden Moscow
1990 "Karenina" Moscow metro station "Leninskie gory" "Chuk and Gek in Himalais" Workshops at Petrovsky bul. Moscow

Festivals and video-shows:
2004 "Abrakadabra" electronic music festival "Intim photo festival" Reflex Gallery
2003 International festival of screensavers in Habana Cuba
"Night of the adult attack" OGI gallery Moscow
Video-night in MUHA club Moscow
International SKIF festival Kulturbrauerei Berlin
"Salon USSR" Pick-up-club Amsterdam
2 nd International Video-festival in Kansk
Art-Klyazma 2 Contemporary Art Festival
2002 Video-festival in Kishinev
2001 "Supervision" International videoconference in Sahalin and Moscow
"Immortality" Video-conference DOM club Moscow
International festival of contemporary art "Kuk Art2" Carskoe Selo
2000 "Lost and found" video festival in ARTIS Planetarium Amsterdam
"Vah-Tang" Park TV channel Amsterdam New York Berlin
1999 "Underwater love" video performance Amsterdam
"Full Moon" with "Sputnik" group Melkweg club Amsterdam, Rijksakademie Amsterdam
1998 "Cloud Commission presents" Cine-Fantom club Center of Cinema Moscow
"Man-Wolf" Slide film festival Odessa Art museum
1997 "Art Moscow" Central House of Artists Moscow
"Platinum Century" Center for Contemporary Art Moscow
1996 "Old cinema" video-shows in Ptyuch Club
"Kukart-1"festival Tzar Selo
1995 "WRO95" Media Art Festival in Wroclaw Poland
"99-99" Museum of Dostoevsky St.Petersburg
1994 "Anigraph" VDNH Moscow
"Nonconformist art" Festival of Contemporary Art City museum Sochi
1993 "Angels over Ukraine" festival in Edinburgh
"ART-MITH 2" Central Hall Manege Moscow
Autobiographical notes: -"Painting sometimes illustrates some pseudoscientific discoveries. Sometimes the plot is being invented in the process of panting, or even later. Many years before I learnt about conceptualism I painted picture with signatures non-relevant to the pictured..."
-What is a dream for you?
-For me, dream is a meaningful source of inspiration. For more than a decade I write a dairy of dreams, it may be publish one day, probably. Many of my projects cover this topic. Even my last name is about it. (NaSONov has a word Dream in it).
from "Six answers of A.Nasonov to questions by A.Petrovichev about exhibition CAPTURED BY FILM." (Krokin gallery)
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