Alexander Ponomarev (artist)

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Alexander Ponomarev
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Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev

(1957-05-21)21 May 1957
Website ponomarev-art.com

Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev (born 1957, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR) is Russian a multidisciplinary contemporary visual artist. He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture "for merits in literature and art" in 2008.

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Ponomarev was born in 1957 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. [1] In 1973 he graduated from the School of Fine Arts Orel (Russia). In 1979, he graduated from the Higher Engineering Marine School in Odesa. While serving in the naval fleets of Russia he carried out a number of artistic projects at sea, as well as in the Arctic, Greenland and Antarctica. He has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1992, a member of the International Union of artists of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, and twice Fellow Mayor of Paris. Steipendiat Fund Alexander Calder (New York-Paris). Talk of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

After leaving the navy, he spent more than 30 years carrying out more than 100 exhibitions and artistic projects in Russian and foreign museums, exhibition centers and galleries. His projects are accepted and supported by the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Louvre Museum (France), the New National Museum of Monaco, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Georges Pompidou (France), the Museum of Science and Technology, Paris (France), the National Museum of Singapore, the art museums of Krasnoyarsk, Samara, Eagle and Yekaterinburg, the Art Museum of Picardie (France), the Centre for Contemporary Art Louise McBain (London), the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Grand Duke (Luxembourg), etc. He conducted a project as the chief artist of the Russian pavilion at the World Exhibition Expo 1998 in Lisbon (Portugal). At the invitation of the Ministry of Culture of France, he carried out a project in the Cathedral of San Luis Salpetriere  [ fr ] in Paris.

In 2007, he represented the Russian Federation at the 52nd Biennial of Contemporary Art in Venice. In 2009, he implemented a special project, "Subtitsiano (Ascent submarine in the Grand Canal)" at the 53rd Biennial of Contemporary Art in Venice. He is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 2016 he signed the pptArt Manifesto. [2] [3] In 2008 the French government named him an "Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters" (Officier d'ordre des Arts et des Lettres). As of 2008 he lives and works in Moscow.

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  2. Nastro, Santa (November 21, 2016). "Arte e aziende. Nasce il Manifesto della Corporate Art: lo firmano Ugo Nespolo, Alexander Ponomarev e Fernando De Filippi". Artribune . Rome.
  3. "The pptArt Manifesto".