Vyacheslav Oxunov

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Vyacheslav Oxunov (* 1948 in Osh , Kyrgyzstan ), also written Akhunov , is an Uzbek artist.

Life

Oxunov spent the first forty years of his life in the Soviet Union . His father is Uzbek and his mother is Russian. He did his military service in the Red Army , then studied at the art school in Frunze (today Bishkek) and switched to the Academy of Arts in Moscow . After graduation, he returned to Fergana ( Uzbekistan ) and worked as an artist, also took part in exhibitions.

In Fergana Oxunov was "discovered" by Sharaf Raschidow , at that time the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Uzbekistan and thus the most powerful man in this Soviet republic . Rashidov gave Akhunov an apartment in Tashkent , where Oxunov could work undisturbed. On the other hand, this relationship also meant that Akhunov could not become a nonconformist . Oxunov works with the means of painting, installation , performance , video art and action art . Some viewers assign his art to late surrealism , others to the neo- underground . Oxunov lives in Tashkent.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2005: Corner , video in collaboration with Sergey Tichina, 51st Biennale di Venezia , Venice (participation in an exhibition in the Central Asian Pavilion)
  • 2008: traces du sacré , Center Pompidou , Paris (participation in exhibition)
  • 2012: 100 Notes / 100 Thoughts , DOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel (participation in exhibition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Julia Sorokina: Vyacheslav Akhunov . In: Nafas Kunstmagazin , an ifa project in collaboration with Universes in Universe, May 2006.
  2. ↑ Vyacheslav Akhunov at the 51st Venice Biennale , June 12th - November 6th, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Oxunov, Vyacheslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akhunov, Vyacheslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uzbek artist (painting, installation, performance and action art)
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Osh