Solveig in Japan

Solveig. Landscape of Memories. 2004-2019. Salt, video, wood, wool, music by E.Grieg. Installation in Setouchi Triennale from 26th April 2019. Shamijima, Sakaide, Seto Inland Sea, Japan

Moon, snow and Solveig

Solveig. Landscape of my memory, video installtion, 2004 and Private Moon in New Zealand near Rangitito, 2010
on an exhibition "The blue of Other Beginning" in PROUN gallery in Vinzavod  from 12th February

Art Sound in RAM museum

photo by Mario Di Paolo
http://www.radioartemobile.it/

Blizzard at the Arsenal

Opening of the 'Blizzard' exhibition, dedicated to winter as an artistic metaphor for Russian life, will take place on the 28th of April in the restored part of the Arsenal building of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. Participants of the exhibition – renowned contemporary Russian artists – present their outlook on 'blizzard country', buried underneath deep snow, with mental and social motifs intermingling within.
Artists: Dmitry Gutov, Vadim Zakharov, Collective Actions group, Where Dogs Run art group, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Provmyza group, The Bluesoup group, Leonid Tishkov, Olga Chernysheva, Sergey Shutov.

Curators: Elena Belova, Alisa Savitskaya

Integrated into one story by common visual link – snow, the artworks displayed in the showroom form a unified winter space, where a mask of formal landscape conceals the special Russian context: natural, historical and socio-cultural environment in which a Russian man is inevitably bound to exist and act. Against the backdrop of the present day reality – impersonal whiteness and cold blizzards - this landscape turns into utopia, territory of metaphysical conflicts, empty of direct and pertinent hints.
The “Blizzard” connotes obscurity and indeterminacy of territory which is almost entirely bereft of linear reactions, distinct cause-effect relations and consecutive reactions, artistic as well as panhuman ones. In endless snow it is difficult to distinguish between reality and recollection, the past and future, archaic archive and futuristic prognosis. At the same time blizzard is repetitive as is never-ending historical cycle, recurring from one year to the next.
THE EXHIBITION’S OPENING: 28th of April 2011 at 19.00.

OPENING HOURS: until the 19th of June 2011, daily from 12.00 till 20.00, except Mondays

CONTACTS: phone +7 (831) 423-57-41, ncca@art.nnov.ru, http://www.ncca.ru/

Solveig. Landscape of My Memory.

Solveig. Landscape of My Memory, video installation at Nina Lumer Gallery, Milan, until 31 January

Leonid Tishkov, Ballade lumineuse at Taiss gallery_Paris

http://www.lepoint.fr/guide-sorties/2010-02-16/galerie-taiss-la-lune-voyageuse-de-leonid-tishkov/2017/0/424614

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeVAQEvyd0E

http://www.taissgalerie.com/en/exhibitions/

http://www.baltinfo.ru/news/V-Parizhe-zvuchit-Luchezarnaya-ballada-130079

Solveig. Landscape of My Memory

Solveig. Landscape of My Memory

Installation, 2004, video, salt, wood, acrylic glass,

250 х 230 cm; sound: E. Grieg, Solveig’s Song

Memory is a desert that we people with the imagination.

In the landscape of my memory one can see a small town in the Urals Region, factory chimneys, a snow-bound pond and a small figure of a boy going to school along a narrow path through the snowfield. I take this path to travel into the past and to restore by time spots the ideal universe, in which childhood is the time of spiritual depths and infinitely dazzling white snow. Time spots are clearly discernible in the snowy landscape of my memory – Father bringing in a Christmas tree on a sledge, Mother rinsing linen in a black ice-hole, a small house on the shore of the pond, a horse and cart, a haystack, my brothers, dogs, fishermen and passers-by, a small cave in the snow, an angel in the snow-drift and the cemetery. Snow is the time and the white imagined landscape where I lodge my personal memories. It is there, on the barely seen line of the snow horizon, that the earthly and transcendental spheres come together.

Leonid Tishkov