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		PONOMARIOV, Aleksandr Evgenievich

Biographical information

1957 born in Dniepropetrovsk
1973 graduated from art school in Orel
1979 graduated from Nautical Engineering College in Odessa

Collections where works are held

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
State Russian Museum, S.-Petersburg
Judishes Museum Reihnsburg, Germany
Zimmerli Art museum, Rutgers University, USA
Universitat Jaum I, Castellon-de-là-Plana, Spain
Pompidou Centre, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Fonds National d`Art Contemporain (FNAC),Paris
Fonds National d`Art Contemporain (FNAC),Bretagne
NCCA, Moscow
Orel Museum of Fine Art, Orel, Russia
National Museum, Singapore
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Art, Russia
Nizniy Tagil Museum of Fine Art, Russia
Krasnoyarsk Museum of Fine Art, Russia

Participation in exhibitions and auctions

Selected Personal Exhibitions:

2009 — «SubTiziano». 53 Biennale of contemporary art in Venice, Italy
2009 — «Sub-Zero», London 2008 Surface Tension. Cueto Project Gallery, New York, USA
Punto di vista. Nina Lumer Gallery, Milan, Italy
2006 In the Garden of Wolf Packs (installation in the Tuilleries Fountain). Louvre, Paris, France
Narcissus Backwards. Granite Center for Contemporary Art, Belfort, France
2005 Le vent en rose. Rabouan-Moussion Galerie, Paris, France
Nemo-Verne (monument to Jules Verne in the Somme Harbor). Crotoy Exhibition Hall, Le Crotoy, France
2004 Alexander Ponomarev. TNT Center, Bordeaux, France
2003 Utilizing Packs. Phase 1: Base. Residence of the French Ministry of Culture, Calder Atelier, Saché, France
Cruise. Art Klyazma Festival of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Utilizing Packs. Phase 2: What Depth! What Depth? Happening on the Loire River, Tour, France
Utilizing Packs. Phase 3: Mobile in Mobile. Happening in the Mediterranean Sea, Salonika, Cassis, Marseilles, Sagunto and Valencia
Utilizing Packs. Phase 3: What Depth? What Depth! Tour Exhibition Hall, Tour, France
2002 Smoke Without Fire. The Sakharov Museum and Public Center, Moscow, Russia
Memory of Water. Museum of Science and Technology, Paris, France
2000 Maya. A Lost Island. Happening in the Barents Sea, Russia
1998 The Breath of the Ocean (installation). Expo-98, Lisbon, Portugal; George Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
1996 Ship Resurrection. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009 53 Biennale of contemporary art in Venice, Italy
2008 Power of Water (video), State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
2007 Click I Hope (Wave, Windshield Wipers, Shower). 52nd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
I Believe. 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2006 ARS 06. Sense of the Real. Kiasma (Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland
2005 Topology of Absolute Zero. 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia
Under the Bridges-2. Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Alexander Ponomarev. Video. Art media festival, Ivri, France
2004 Passage d’Åurope. Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France
Rivages. Museum of Art and History, Saint-Brieuc, France
Art and Politics. Center of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France
Lessons of Happiness. Center of Contemporary Art, Yaroslavl, Russia
Artconstitution. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2003 Moscow Abstraction. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002 Out of Moscow. Center of Contemporary Art, Campair, France
Moscow Time. Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2001 Abstraction in Russia – 20th century. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1993 Russische Kunst der 60–90 Jahre. Osnabruck, Germany
Ideal City. Trends in Contemporary Russian Art. National Museum, Singapore
Postmodernism and National Traditions. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1991 New Circle. Martin Luther King Center, Washington, D.C., USA
Contemporary Artists Respond to Malevich. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Autobiographical notes

"I’ve always regarded sailing as a quintessential human activity, and boats as the outcome-the perfect synthesis-of aspirations that are at once technical, aesthetic, and romantic".

from http://www.cuetoproject.com/Press.2/Biennale_venise.pdf

What the critics say

To take on the work of Alexander Ponomarev is to enter into essentially shifting terrain, where that which one had ventured to take for granted or assumed as obvious, subsequently begins to move, evade, disappear. For the art of Ponomarev is above all interstitial, in the sense that he explores solutions of continuity, spaces of friction and dynamic encounter between the various fields of “reality.” For him, the frontier – which he defines as the place where he situates himself, where and from where he operates – is not a line demarcating set territories that ought to be crossed, bypassed, moved, or destroyed, but rather a space-time in motion within and beginning from which this “reality” can be re-examined, “re-subjectified,” re-activated. Recycled.

Anne Landréat Paris, February 2004
from http://www.cuetoproject.com/Press.2/Biennale_venise.pdf

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