Andrey Bartenev (russian: link=no, Андрей Бартенев) is a Russian artist, sculptor, experimentalist, and creator of many provocative, interactive installations and performances. He was born in 1965 in

Norilsk Norilsk ( rus, Нори́льск, p=nɐˈrʲilʲsk, ''Norílʹsk'') is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk ...

, Russia.

Ideology

He operates in an interdisciplinary field. "Art for me is a single current," he has said, "and I don't care what forms it takes." Examples are his

papier-mâché upright=1.3, Mardi Gras papier-mâché masks, Haiti upright=1.3, Papier-mâché Catrinas, traditional figures for day of the dead celebrations in Mexico Papier-mâché (, ; , literally "chewed paper") is a composite material consisting of p ...

"eight-legged dog for high-speed transportation;" his performance "Black Caviar Road" – a line of Russians black

caviar Caviar (also known as caviare; from fa, خاویار, khâvyâr, egg-bearing) is a food consisting of salt-cured roe of the family Acipenseridae. Caviar is considered a delicacy and is eaten as a garnish or a spread. Traditionally, the te ...

cans with car tires rolling by; and his sound installation "Say: I love you" which uses a computer to transform those three words into an echo bouncing through two hundred speakers.

Career

At the crest of Russia's wave of radical Sots Art, Bartenev was invited to bring his performances all over Europe: (Germany),

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

, and France. Bartenev's synthetic performance The Snow Queen (1993), a vivid avant-garde interpretation of Andersen's fairy tale, traveled to London's

Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

Theater and

Royal Festival Hall The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is a Grade I li ...

(SBC). Bartenev has created costumes for theater plays: '' The Blue Bird'' by

Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

in New York, Elizaveta Bam by

Daniil Kharms Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (russian: Дании́л Ива́нович Хармс; – 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. Early years Kharms was born as Daniil Yuvach ...

in Moscow, ''

Cinderella "Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...

'' by Sir

Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Musi ...

in Hamburg. He was an editor and published two books: ''People in Paints'', an anthology of Russian body art, and ''Marvelous! – Russian Illustrators of the Glamorous Life'', a history of Russian magazine illustration from 90-s. A main priority for him was a series of LED-sculptures: ''London Under Snow'', ''Electric Aliens'', Skriabin’s ''Light Music'' and ''Connection Lost'' – field of lonely hearts. The latter was exhibited in the Russian Pavilion at the

Venice Biennial The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest o ...

in 2007 and became a big hit in London at

Riflemaker Riflemaker is a contemporary art business and exhibition space in London specialising in exhibiting and representing emerging artists. The building is a historic gunmaker's workshop off Regent Street. Built in 1712, it is one of the oldest pub ...

Contemporary Art Gallery. Bartenev created a design of LED-watches for the fashion company

Armand Basi Armand Basi (1924-January 9, 2009) was a Spanish businessman and fashion designer, co-founder of the fashion firm bearing his name. In 1948, along with his brother Josep (d. November 2007), Basi founded a small knitting company inspired by their ...

. Bartenev made raw of performances for Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in US: ''The Ladder of Red'' (2002), ''Caution! Cats and Dogs on the Road'' (2005), ''Emily likes the TV'' (2006) and ''Animals Competition'' (2007) with

Dita von Teese Heather Renée Sweet (born September 28, 1972), known professionally as Dita Von Teese, is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman. She is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker "Que ...

. In 2008 Bartenev's works were displayed in the

American Visionary Art Museum The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is an art museum located in Baltimore, Maryland's Federal Hill neighborhood at 800 Key Highway. The museum specializes in the preservation and display of outsider art (also known as "intuitive art," "raw ...

Baltimore Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was ...

, and he showed the performance ''Shaking Angles'' at

The National Arts Club The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the ''New York Times'' to "stimulate, foster, and promote public ...

Gramercy Park Gramercy ParkSometimes misspelled as Grammercy () is the name of both a small, fenced-in private park and the surrounding neighborhood that is referred to also as Gramercy, in the New York City borough of Manhattan in New York, United States. ...

in New York City. In 2009 among other activities he organized and curated The Third International Festival of Illustration (Moscow), created performance SunPool for

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

Foundation (USA), did multiple acclaimed workshops at an international summer academy at Domaine de Boisbuchet (

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

, the Centre International de Recherche et d´Education Culturelle et Agricole (CIRECA), and

Vitra Design Museum The Vitra Design Museum is a privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Former Vitra CEO, and son of Vitra founders Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as an independent private foundation. The ...

, France) and different workshops at The Norwegian Theatre Academy in Norway. He also participated at MIDI_E Festival (performance – Babbles of Hope, Spain). In 2012 Bartenev made the design for the exhibition of treasures in

The Royal Library, Denmark The Royal Library ( da, Det Kongelige Bibliotek) in Copenhagen is the national library of Denmark and the university library of the University of Copenhagen. It is among the largest libraries in the world and the largest in the Nordic countries ...

Awards

In 2018, Bartenev won the

Alternative Miss World The Alternative Miss World is an art and fashion event presented in the form of a beauty pageant. It was founded by Andrew Logan in 1972, and has been held irregularly since, with the 14th competition held in 2018. Alternative Miss World has been d ...

as Miss UFO.

References

Other references

Unicycleproductionsllc.com

Urbanstages.org

Via3pr.com

Rtimesr.com

Andrewlogan.com

External links

* http://bartenev.ru * https://web.archive.org/web/20110811120809/http://andrey-bartenev.livejournal.com/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20100217045101/http://www.vashdosug.ru/exhibition/person/28621/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20091202171427/http://mainpeople.ru/user/A_Bartenev/ * http://www.kb.dk/en/dia/udstillinger/skatteudstilling.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartenev, Andrey Living people Russian male artists 1965 births People from Norilsk Russian television presenters Honorary Members of the Russian Academy of Arts