Viktor Misiano

Born in Moscow in 1957. From 1980 till 1990 he was a curator of contemporary art at the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. From 1992 to 1997 he was the director of the Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Moscow. He curated the Russian participation in the Istanbul Biennale (1992), the Venice Biennale (1995, 2003), the São Paulo Biennale (2002, 2004), and the Valencia Biennale (2001). He was on the curatorial team for the Manifesta I in Rotterdam in 1996. In 1993 he was a founder of the Moscow Art Magazine (Moscow) and has been its editor-in-chief ever since; in 2003 he was a founder of the Manifesta Journal: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship (Amsterdam) and has been an editor there since 2011. In 2005 he curated the first Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2007 he realized large scale exhibition project “Progressive Nostalgia: Art from the Former USSR” in the Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Prato (Italy), the Benaki Museum, Athens, KUMU, Tallinn, and KIASMA, Helsinki. His latest exhibition projects are “Ornamentalism. Latvian Contemporary Art”, collateral Event of the 56th Venice Biennale, 2015 and “Elective Affinities” in NCCA, Moscow, 2015. Author of many articles and catalogues, published a book “’Other’ and Divers”, NLO, Moscow in 2004 and “Five Lectures on Curatorship”, AdMarginem Publishing, Moscow in 2014. From October 2010 to 2014 he was a Chairman of the International Foundation Manifesta. Honorary doctorate from the Helsinki University for Art and Design. He lives in Moscow (Russia) and Cisternino (Italy).

Vinogradov and Dubosarsky

The book is devoted to the work of cooperating artists Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubosarsky, unlike many artists of their generation remained faithful to the traditional painting. The book is an attempt to understand and explain the new trend of domestic art, to determine the role and place of artists in the context of the development of national and world culture.

Viktor Misiano:
«Almost always, at each stage of the history of art creates a special type of artist who can be called as an artist of generation…
There is no doubt that in the art of post-Soviet Russia in the creative destiny of first generation this mission implemented Dubosarskiy Vladimir and Alexander Vinogradov. It is their creative project with comprehensive capacity embodied the post-Soviet era – the fantasies of owning it, conscious or repressed, determines its ideologies perceived by software or unconsciously».