Sergey Chilikov () (born 1953 in Kilemary, Mari ASSR; died June 21, 2020,

Yoshkar-Ola Yoshkar-Ola (Mari language, Mari and ) is the capital city of Mari El, Russia. Yoshkar-Ola means “red city” in Meadow Mari language, Mari and was formerly known as Tsarevokokshaysk () before 1919, as Krasnokokshaysk () between 1919 and 1927 ...

, Republic of

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) was a Russian

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. Chilikov graduated from the

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faculty with a Ph.D. Until 1991, he had been teaching in the universities of

. In 1993, he published his first book on analytical philosophy titled “Artseg. The Owner of a Thing or Ontology of Subjectiveness”. Chilikov started as a photographer in 1976 in the creative group “The Fact” (Chilikov, Mikhailov, Evlampiev, Likhosherst, Voetskiy). From 1980 to 1989, he ran “Analytical exhibitions of Photography” and the annual open-air photography festival on Kundysh river. In 1988, Chilikov took part in the retrospective exhibitions of the “Fact” Group in Moscow titled “On the Kashirka”. Since 1989, he photographed the journey through former

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cities and towns. He exhibited his photographic essays “Photo Provocations”, “The Countryside Glam”, “The Beach”, “The Gambling”, “The Philosophy of a Journey” and others at “Fashion and Style in Photography” and “Photobiennale” in Moscow, and "Les Rencontres d'Arles" in France (2002). Chilikov lived in Yoshkar-Ola and in

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. Died June 21, 2020.

''Gulag Orkestar'' album art

A Chilikov photograph was used without his approval on the front and back of

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band

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's 2006 album ''

Gulag Orkestar ''Gulag Orkestar'' is the debut album of Beirut. It was recorded in 2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Gulag was a Soviet government agency administering criminal justice, while ''orkestar'' is the Serbo-Croatian word for "orchestra". It is wr ...

''. According to Zach Condon, singer-songwriter of Beirut, the photographs were found in a book, torn out, in a library in

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Exhibitions

*''Provincia russa'',

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- Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy, 2003 *''La province russe'', Fnac Saint-Lazare, Paris, France, 2003 *''Old Samara'', Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia 2004 *''The Beach'', Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia, 2004 *''La province russe dans les années 90, Galeries des magasins Fnac, Gent, Belgium, 2004 *''Gamble'', XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2005 *''Selected Works 1978-'', Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, 2011

References

External links

Gallery at Photographer.ru
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