Eduard Leonidowitsch Bersudski

Eduard Leonidowitsch Bersudski , also Eduard Bersudsky ( Russian: Эдуард Леонидович Берсудский ; * 1939 in Leningrad ) is a Russian sculptor who was best known for his automaton art . Together with theater director Tatyana Jakovskaya and lighting designer Sergey Jakovsky, he runs the exhibition project Sharmanka - Kinetic Theater in Glasgow , Scotland. In 2005 he received the Creative Scotland Award.

biography

Bersudski began his sculpting work at the age of 25, while he made his living alternately as an electrician, metal worker and park attendant. In the years 1974–1980 he took part in some exhibitions of "Nonconformist / Unofficial Art" in Leningrad . In 1988, Bersudski met Tatyana Jakovskaya, who at the time was working with an amateur theater. A year later, the Sharmanka project was founded on the premises of a former kindergarten. It received its first international attention in 1991 when it took part in the International Puppet Festival in Utrecht. Due to the emerging economic crisis in Russia, the project moved to Blainslie, Scotland, in 1993. In the same year, the Glasgow Museum showed an exhibition of Bersudsky's works and purchased three machines for the permanent exhibition. In 1995 the "Theater" moved to Glasgow - initially in an old department store. Thanks to grants from the National Lottery and the Glasgow City Council, a separate exhibition hall was built in 1996. At the same time, Bersudsky worked with the artists Tim Stead, Annica Sandstrom and Jurgen Tubbecke on the "Millennium Clock Tower", a work for the Royal Museum, which was then included in the permanent exhibition of the Scottish National Museum. Further work followed u. a. for the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem and the Storm P. Museum in Copenhagen. In Germany, Bersudsky's works were shown in 1993 in the Grassimuseum in Leipzig and in 2008 as part of the special exhibition “PhantasieMechanik” in phæno in Wolfsburg.

Web links

• Sharmanka project website
• Chronicle of the unofficial art of Leningrad
• Films of the kinetic theater from Bersudsky's Leningrad apartment on youtube: [1] , [2] , [3]