Sublime of the Memory

Sublime of the Memory. Three levels. 2016. Fabric, photos, crocheting in Sign of Memory exhibition in State Arts Library from 6th July

Look Homeward and Private Moon in Nizhny Tagil

Leonid Tishkov Look Homeward exhibition in NizhnyTagil Museum Fine Arts from 16th May until 19th July 

Divers from the Heaven and Rag Sun

Installations Rag Sun and Divers

from the Heaven, found wear and photos

of artist's kin, salt, 2004, on exhibition "Life from the End"

of  NCCA and Tula Necropilis from 19th May

We leave home and come back Home.

Everything remained the same in that house

as when we’d left it and yet everything was

different -- it was illumined with the light of

eternity, the light of universal farewell.

In this world of eternal returns any

phenomenon of the present carries

within itself the past and the future,

that is the eternity itself.

Everything here, at the edge of the eternity,

becomes a symbol and is multiplied through

similarities, as a crystal in its matrix, in

the solution of its soul, becomes

overgrown with its past experiences

and turns into a magic creature capable

of expressing its secret thoughts
about the subconscious events
of its innermost life, in the language
of the objects from the external world.
Thus the artist spins a thread out of
the formless cloud of being,

twisting it round the spindle of his

imagination to create his mythological world.

Divers from Heaven at Kiasma museum

Divers from Heaven at Compton Verney Gallery UK

Leonid Tishkov
Divers from Heaven, 2005-2006
Textile and photographs

Utilising old photographs and scarp of fabric found after his mother’s death, Tishkov’s Divers from Heaven refers to the future of man in cosmic creation, as expressed in the writing of the radical spiritual thinker , Nikolay Fyodorov (1829-1903). Fyodorov speaks of time when “…the earth will begin to give back those whom it has swallowed up and will people the heavently starry worlds with them”. (Nikolay Feodorov: What was man created for?)

http://www.comptonverney.org.uk/?page=exhibitions/thefabricofmyth.html
http://thefairlyconstantreader.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-versus-bullies.html