Maxim Karlowitsch Cantor

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Maxim Kantor, 2016

Maxim Kantor ( Russian Максим Кантор ; born December 22, 1957 in Moscow ) is a Russian painter, graphic artist , writer and playwright , essayist and art historian .

Life

Maxim Kantor studied at the Polygraphical Institute in Moscow from 1975 to 1980 and graduated with a diploma . From 1982 he took part in exhibitions. In 1983 he founded an independent artist group known as Krasny Dom (The Red House) with one-day exhibitions in the underground. The most important exhibition took place in 1984 at the Philosophical Institute in Moscow. In 1997 Kantor represented the Russian Federation at the 47th Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition.

In 1990 he took up his writing activity and in 1993 published the book "Haus im Niemandsland". He has also published fictional works, collections of essays and plays. Among his novels are the two-volume work “ Drawing Textbook ” (Učebnik risovanija) from 2006 - finalist of the Russian Boljshaja Kniga book award , long list of the Russkij Buker - and “Red Light” (Krasnyj Svet) from 2013, finalist of the Russian Boljshaja book award Kniga .

His plays from the “Vecher s babuinom” collection (An Evening with the Baboon, 2008, OGI, Moscow) have been performed in the Theater na Yugo-Zapade and Dom Architectora in Moscow, in the Komissaryhevskoi Theater in St. Petersburg and in a number of provincial theaters .

In 2014 he founded the touring theater troupe "Robin Hood". His first play appeared in Berlin under the name "Robin Hood and the spiritual brackets" .

Together with Gidon Kremer , Kantor realized the video project “Russia: Faces and Masks”, dedicated to Ukraine , in 2015 , in which his pictures are related to the composition Pictures at an exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky .

In 2016 Kantor received the order for two large wall paintings for the Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Saal in the Foreign Office in Berlin, which were installed in spring 2017. Kantor received German citizenship in 2016. He lives and works on the Ile de Ré (France), in Berlin and Oxford .

Painting and graphics

Kantor created series of large paintings, graphic works, etchings, prints and portfolios : “Wasteland. An Atlas ” (2001–2002), “ Metropolis. Atlas " (2003-2004) and " Vulcanus. Atlas " (2010). In addition, artist books such as “Die Hermannschlacht” (2013) based on Heinrich von Kleist . These works have always been dovetailed with his fictional works, public statements and essays.

Novels, short stories, plays (selection)

Red light by Maxim Kantor, Zsolnay Velag, Vienna, 2018.jpg
  • 1993 - “House in No Man's Land”, 21 stories and 42 drawings. Sabaschnikov, Moscow, POLLeditions, Berlin
  • 2006 - “ Drawing textbook ” (Učebnik risovanija). OGI, Moscow, finalist of the Russian literature prize Boljshaja Kniga , longlist of Russkij Buke
  • 2013 - “Red Light” (Krasnyj Svet), at AST, Moscow; French with Louison, Paris; German Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna (2018)
  • 2016 - "Thistle - Philosophy of Oil Painting" "Чертополох - Философия живописи", AST, Moscow
  • 2017 - "Azart", AST, Moscow

Cooperation with universities, symposia and lectures

Maxim Kantor is an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College of Oxford University , a visiting fellow at St. Anthony's College and a member of the Common Room at Wolfson College , Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame , Indiana , USA . He has given lectures at numerous events of scientific and cultural institutions and has been a participant in various symposia since 2012 .

Symposia

  • 2012 - "Vulcano: Art and Politics in Crisis of European Ideals", organized with the support of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, took place in May 2012 and dovetailed with Kantor's exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum . Other speakers included Eric Hobsbawm , Marek Bartelik, Toni Negri , Vittorio Hosle and Timothy Radcliff .
  • 2013 - "Atlantis" - "Atlantis and Utopia" as part of the exhibition in Palazzo Zenobio, Venice
  • 2014 - "The Rape of Europe". Graduate Institute for International Relations, Geneva
  • 2016 - “Democracy as a Challenge of Our Time” in the European Solidarity Center in Gdansk , Poland
  • 2018 - "The Last Judgment - From Bosch to Cantor", Interdisciplinary Symposium - Participants: Eva Blimlinger , Gabriele Geml, Jos Koldeweij, Julia M. Nauhaus , David Priestland and Andrew Teal.

Lectures

  • 2013 - National University TG Shevchenko: "Change of cultural paradigm"
  • 2015 - Akademia Ignatium, Kraków: Conference Ex Oriente Lux: Intelligentsia, Church, Conscience in nowadays Russia
  • 2015 - University Notre Dame du Lac, Indiana: "Vincent van Gogh: The Meaning of His Art" - "Honore Daumier and Social Art" - "Painting in Burgundy" - "Russia: Empire Upside Down"
  • 2016 - Pembroke College, Oxford: "From Van der Weyden to Van Gogh via Bosch"
  • 2016 - Hegel Week 2016 Otto Friedrich University Bamberg "The ugly in the light of beauty: Picturesque explorations"
  • 2016 - National Museum Danzig, Department of Ancient Art: The Last Jugement by Hans Memling in the context or the Art of Burgundy from Rogier van der Weyden to Hieronimus Bosch
  • 2018 - Vienna , Vienna Humanities Festival: "New and Old Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil" with Erik Klein; Kreiskyforum of International Dialogue: "Red light, a strong novel about a violent century" with Philipp Blom
  • 2019 - Cambridge , Saint Catherine's College: Origins of oil painting. Renaissance vs avant-garde

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Maxim Kantor, exhibition “De l'autre côté. Merry Symbolism ”in the parish church of Saint Merry, Paris 2017

Works in public collections (selection)

Literature by and about Maxim Kantor

  • GLASNOST - The New Freedom of Soviet Painters , Henri Nennen Foundation, 1988
  • Maxim Kantor - Pictures 1990–1991, pictures by Maxim Kantor , Galerie Eva Poll Berlin, Verlag der Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin, 1991
  • Maxim Kantor - "House in No Man's Land", drawings and short stories by Maxim Kantor, POLLeditions, Berlin and Sabaschnickov Verlag, Moscow 1993, ISBN 978-3-931759-23-0
  • Maxim Kantor - works from 1991 to 1993 , text by Maxim Kantor; POLLeditions, Vol. 40, 1993
  • Maxim Kantor - Paintings 1982–1994 , Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-87909-415-2
  • Maxim Kantor - Pictures and Drawings 1993–1995 , text by Maxim Kantor; POLLeditions Vol. 43, 1995
  • Maxim Kantor - The Etchings , 1997, text by Margret Stuffmann; POLLeditions Vol. 48, 1998
  • Maxim Kantor - paintings and etchings , Kulturspeicher im Schloss (ed.), Oldenburg 1998
  • Maxim Kantor - Paintings and Etchings , Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1998
  • Maxim Kantor: Wasteland. An atlas , exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the Städelsche Kunstinstitut and the Städtische Galerie, Graphic Collection, Frankfurt am Main. 70 prints and 7 letters. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001
  • Maxim Kantor - New Empire , exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name from November 12, 2004-February 2005 in the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus Osnabrück, Rasch Verlag, Bramsche, ISBN 978-3-89946-038-4
  • Maxim Kantor - One is Enough (from Russian "Одного Достаточно"), 2010, Astrel, Moscow
  • Maxim Kantor, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Palace edition, 2012
  • Catalog "The New Bestiary, Paintings, Graphics, Sculptures, Puppets", Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2016
  • Catalog “Rodyina contra Imperium” (Family versus Imperium), National Museum Gdansk, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maxim Kantor - Authors - Hanser Literaturverlage. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Maxim Kantor: "Red Light" - An epic about the relativity of truth . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Christine Hamel, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Intellectual Adventure: Maxim Kantor's novel "Red Light" | BR.de . April 16, 2018 ( archive.org [accessed April 21, 2018]).
  4. ↑ De l'autre côté - Merry Symbolism / 9 avril - 19 may 2017 . ( catholique.fr [accessed November 10, 2018]).
  5. ^ Hatje Cantz Publishers: Maxim Kantor | Art since 1945 | Hatje Cantz. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ MAXIM KANTOR THE NEW BESTIARIUM PAINTINGS, GRAPHICS, SCULPTURES AND DOLLS. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cantor, Maxim Karlowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кантор, Максим Карлович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow