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Victor Skersis | |
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Виктор Скерсис | |
Born |
Moscow, Soviet Union | July 5, 1956
Nationality | Russian |
Victor Skersis (Russian: Виктор Анта́насович Скерсис, born July 5, 1956, Moscow) — Moscow conceptualist. Artist, theoretician. [1]
Studied at the Moscow State Polygraphic Institute (1973-1977). [2] The institute forced him to withdraw two weeks before he was to graduate. Areas of interest include analytical conceptualism, metaconceptualism. An active member of the Moscow art scene since 1975, Skersis works independently and in co-authorship with other artists. He was a member of "The Nest" (with Gennady Donskoi and Mikhail Roshal'), 1975–79, "SZ" (with Vadim Zakharov), 1980–84, 1989–90, "Cupid" (with Yuri Albert and Andrei Filippov), "Edelweiss" and “Tsar of the Hill” (Yuri Albert, Paruir Davtyan, and Andrei Filippov), and others.
A participant of numerous unofficial art shows in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, including the 1975 nonconformist art show in the Culture Pavilion at VDNKh, Moscow; the 1977 Venice Biennale "La nuova arte Sovietica"; exhibits at APTART gallery, Moscow 1982-84; “The Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976,” The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow and The State Russian Museum, Leningrad 1990-1991; “40 years of nonconformist art,” The Central Exhibition Hall Manezh Moscow 2002; “Sots-Art. Political art in Russia,” Maison Rouge, Paris, France, The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow, 2007-2008; “Kollektsiia,” Pompidou Centre, 2016; “Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art,” Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2016.
Victor Skersis lives and works in Moscow and the US, where he is engaged in fundamental research into the processes of art.
From 1975 to 1979 he was a member of The Nest, together with Gennady Donskoy and Mikhail Roshal. [3]
1975
1977
"Owls are not what they seem" joint exhibition together with Tatyana Sherstyuk, Gallery 21, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Nike is losing her head at the date with a snowman. Venus is exchanging her shadow with Apollo where the shadow turns into a rabbit, and after into a duck…These narratives are rhythmed and turn into a poetry of a size of a gallery. They fly of like a refrain by the exhibition of two artists of different generations – a legendary Victor Skersis from art team "Nest" and a young inheritor of "Analytical conceptualism": Tatyana Sherstyuk. A poem written by with spectacular illusions is named "Owls are not what they seem". Maria Moskvicheva (a journalist, an historian, a culturologist, an art columnist of Moskovky Kmsololets Newspaper, a member of Association of Art Critics (AIS). [8]
![]() | This biographical article is written
like a résumé. (October 2019) |
Victor Skersis | |
---|---|
Виктор Скерсис | |
Born |
Moscow, Soviet Union | July 5, 1956
Nationality | Russian |
Victor Skersis (Russian: Виктор Анта́насович Скерсис, born July 5, 1956, Moscow) — Moscow conceptualist. Artist, theoretician. [1]
Studied at the Moscow State Polygraphic Institute (1973-1977). [2] The institute forced him to withdraw two weeks before he was to graduate. Areas of interest include analytical conceptualism, metaconceptualism. An active member of the Moscow art scene since 1975, Skersis works independently and in co-authorship with other artists. He was a member of "The Nest" (with Gennady Donskoi and Mikhail Roshal'), 1975–79, "SZ" (with Vadim Zakharov), 1980–84, 1989–90, "Cupid" (with Yuri Albert and Andrei Filippov), "Edelweiss" and “Tsar of the Hill” (Yuri Albert, Paruir Davtyan, and Andrei Filippov), and others.
A participant of numerous unofficial art shows in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, including the 1975 nonconformist art show in the Culture Pavilion at VDNKh, Moscow; the 1977 Venice Biennale "La nuova arte Sovietica"; exhibits at APTART gallery, Moscow 1982-84; “The Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976,” The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow and The State Russian Museum, Leningrad 1990-1991; “40 years of nonconformist art,” The Central Exhibition Hall Manezh Moscow 2002; “Sots-Art. Political art in Russia,” Maison Rouge, Paris, France, The Tret'yakov State Gallery, Moscow, 2007-2008; “Kollektsiia,” Pompidou Centre, 2016; “Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art,” Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2016.
Victor Skersis lives and works in Moscow and the US, where he is engaged in fundamental research into the processes of art.
From 1975 to 1979 he was a member of The Nest, together with Gennady Donskoy and Mikhail Roshal. [3]
1975
1977
"Owls are not what they seem" joint exhibition together with Tatyana Sherstyuk, Gallery 21, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Nike is losing her head at the date with a snowman. Venus is exchanging her shadow with Apollo where the shadow turns into a rabbit, and after into a duck…These narratives are rhythmed and turn into a poetry of a size of a gallery. They fly of like a refrain by the exhibition of two artists of different generations – a legendary Victor Skersis from art team "Nest" and a young inheritor of "Analytical conceptualism": Tatyana Sherstyuk. A poem written by with spectacular illusions is named "Owls are not what they seem". Maria Moskvicheva (a journalist, an historian, a culturologist, an art columnist of Moskovky Kmsololets Newspaper, a member of Association of Art Critics (AIS). [8]