Stargazer Konstantin

Biographical information
.
. 1958 born in Moscow
. 1976-81 studied at the Moscow Art Theater School (Producer's Department)
. 1978 was a group 'Double-2'
. 1978-84 one of the founders and team members 'Amanita'
. 1982 one of the organizers APTART
. 1986-88, together with Mr.
. Abramishvili initiated the creation of 'World Champions'
. 1986 Founding member of the Club Avant-gardists (CLAVA)
. 1993 member of the USDA
. 1994 member of the 'sea of sailors' Publisher literary and art anthology 'Nightlife'
. Collections where works
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. Collection of Contemporary Art State Museum Tsaritsino, Moscow
. Museum Luigi Pecci (Luiggi Pecci), Prato, Italy
. Museum Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
. Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
. Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA
. L. Talochkin, Moscow
. D. Gori, Santo Mato, Italy
. Regina Gallery, Moscow
. P. Halonen, Helsinki, Finland
. E. Golovlyova, Moscow
. Private collection, Riga, Latvia
. P.-G
. Carini, Florence, Italy
Participation in exhibitions and auctions

PERSOHALHYE SHOWS
1982 'Exhibition of Painting'. Galepeya APTART, Moscow
1983 'The Decorator and Life'. APTART Gallery, Moscow
1984 'For the soul and bull' (together with H. Alekseev). Galepeya APTART, Moscow
1991 'Sangria di artista'. Galeria Carini, Florence, Italy
1992 'The old echo' (with L.Rezun-Zvezdochetova). Museum of Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
'Dhapmendpa'. L Gallery, Moscow
1994 'Artist - metrostroevtsam' (with S. Neprintsevym). Gallery 'Regina', Moscow
1995 'Select Pepsi'. XL Gallery, Moscow
1996 "Night Boys, or non-Russian boys" (with S. Epihin). XL Gallery, Moscow
"Babtsy Fakosy". XL Gallery, Moscow
"Diligence" (with G. Litichevsky). Gallery "Spider & Mouse", Moscow
"Unforgettable" (with Yu.Shabelnikov and Aronov). Exhibition Hall Solyanka, Moscow
1997 "Erotica destroys consciousness" (with L. Borisova). XL Gallery, Moscow
"You are what you eat". Guelman Gallery, Moscow
1998 "Once - potatoes, two - potato ..." Guelman Gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1978 'Experiment'. Malaya Gruzinskaya St. 28, Moscow
'Trick'. The first exhibition of 'Amanita'. Outpost of Culture. Shatsky, Moscow
'Double'. Exhibition-action (with M. Chernyshov, V. Dlouhy, B. whip). Tsaritsyno Moscow
1978-84 exhibition and shares in the group 'Amanita' and in the gallery APTART. Moscow, Moscow
1979 '20 portraits, 5 self-portraits'. MEPI, 'Club of Rockwell Kent', Moscow
1982 First exhibition APTART. APTART Gallery, Moscow
1982-84 'Russian Samizdat Art', New York City, Rochester, Westchester, Washington, Richmond, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, USA, Vancouver, Canada.
1983 'APTART in natupe'. Kalistovo, Moscow Region.
'Come Yesterday and You'll Be First'. City without Walls: an urban artists collective Inc. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America. Newark, New Jersey, New York, USA
'APTART for zabopom'. Tapasovka, Moscow Region.
'APTART'. Center of pя?я?я?п?пЎпЁпЎ of Contemporary Art, Hyu-Yopk, USA
'Victory over the Sun'. APTART Gallery, Moscow
1984 'Long-range, long-stpany'. Galepeya APTART, Moscow
'Odessa-Moscow'. APTART Gallery, Moscow
'APTART in Tribeca'. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York
1985 'Russian Art Show'. Danceteria, New York, USA
'APTART'. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, USA
1985-87 series of one-day exhibitions: Artist's House at the Kuznetsk bridge, cinema
'Hanoi', cafe 'Valdai', 'Meridian'. Moscow
1986 'Oh, Malta'. Embassy of the Republic of Malta, Moscow
'Art Against commerce' (Fair-Share). Bitsa Park, Moscow
'Dekabpskoe armament rebellion'. Kvaptipnaya exhibition Cherniakhovsky, 13, Moscow
'Art Today'. Mail art exhibition. Youth House, Budapest, Hungary
One-day exhibition at the XVII youth exhibition. Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
The action on the opening of the Club Avant-gardists. DK 'Dukat', Moscow
1987 First Exhibition of Avant-gardists Club (CLAVA). Peresvetov Lane., Moscow
'The competition Preference'. 'Destroying', 'World Champions'. Artists' studios, Moscow
'Giordano Bruno'. Gallery Wrubel, Moscow
'The visual arts culture'. l / o 'The Hermitage', Profsoyuznaya st., q. 100, Moscow
'Residence'. l / o 'The Hermitage', Profsoyuznaya st., q. 100, Moscow
"Retrospective of Moscow Artists. 1957-1987 '. l / o 'The Hermitage', Profsoyuznaya st., q. 100, Moscow
'Cubism'. Club Avangapdistov. Vpubelya Gallery, Moscow
'In Hell' (Fair-Share). Club of the avant-garde Moscow
'п·я?пЇпЎп?п?я?п?я?я?, bugler! ". House Medic, Moscow
'Wake up! We - fellows'. Action 'World Champions' on the River Station, Moscow
Evening l / o 'The Hermitage' in the exhibition 'young country'. Manege, Moscow
'Exhibition of folk art'. DK MEI, Moscow
'Net art'. 'World Champions' with the participation Petrelli Voytsehova, Stepina. Koktebel; Odessa
1988 'Bath' (Fair-Share). Avant-gardists Club. The men's section Sanduny baths, Moscow
'Soccer. World Cup. Playing in a box '. Tabakov Theater, Moscow
Rock-parade "ACCA". DK MELZ, Moscow
"Labipint". Palase Youth, Moscow
XVIII Exhibition of Young Artists. Manege, Moscow
The second exhibition of Avant-gardists Club. Peresvetov Lane., Moscow
2-I of the First Exhibition of the creative association mrskovskih artists. Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Ich lebe - ich sehe". Kunstmuseum, Bern, Shveytsapiya
"The New Russians". Vapshava, Poland
"Young Soviet Art". Art Center, Imatpa, Finland
"ICKUNSTVO". DAAD-CLAVA. Westendbanhof, Beplin, Germany
ART Messe. Basel, Switzerland
"Steirischer Herbst-88. Stadtmuseum, Graz, Austria 1989 "... up to 33". Youth Palace, Moscow
"Dialogue". "Avant-Garde" Russe et Art Contemporain Sovietique ". Centre Boris Vian. Ville des Ulis, Paris, France
"Dopogoe Art". Palase Youth, Moscow
"Inexpensive Art". First Gallery, Moscow
"Exhibition of unfinished data obtained". Mastepskaya K. Zvezdochetova, Fupmanny per., Moscow
"Momentaufnahme: Junge Kunst aus Moskau". Mц?nster, Cologne, Bielefeld, Germany
"100 years pя?я?я?п?пЎпЁпЎ Art 1889-1989. Of the private collections of the Soviet Union ". Galepeya Barbican, London, United Kingdom
"Mosca - Terza Roma". Sala 1, Rome, Italy
"Moskau-Wien-New York / Kunst zur Zeit". Messepalast, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
"Rauschenberg - to us, we - Rauschenberg". First Gallery, Moscow
"Muveszet helyet Muveszet". Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
"New Jerusalem" (exhibition-action). Avant-gardists Club. New Jerusalem, Moscow Region.
"Perspectives of Conceptualism". Peresvetov Lane., Moscow 1989-90 "10 + 10". San Fpantsisko, Buffalo, Washington, United States, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1990 XIX Esposizione Internazionale D'Arte. La Biennale di Venezia. Aperto. Venice, Italy
"The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika". Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, USA
"Matepi Bupatino". Museum and. Zilbepshteyna ". Mastepskie on Chistoppudnom bul'var, Moscow
"Shizokitay". Avant-gardists Club. Exhibition Pavilion on Frunze Embankment, Moscow
"Eroosio". Helsinki, Finland
"ISKONSTVO". Kulturhuset. Stockholm, Sweden
"For a cultural holiday". Kashirka, Moscow
"Repentant Art" (exhibition-action). Zoo, Moscow
"Fracture". Gallery Domberger, Stuttgart, Germany
"Towards the Object". Kashirka, Moscow
"Absolut Glasnost". Exhibition company "Absolut Vodka", New York, USA
"Artisti russi contemporanei". Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci. Prato, Italy
1990-91 "Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism". Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; ICA, Boston, MA; Des Moines Art Center, De Moines, IA, USA
1991 "Aesthetic Experiences". Kuskovo Museum, Moscow
"Ppivatnye occupation". Gallery 1.0. Exhibition Hall Solyanka, Moscow
"Mother-to-space. Propeller Gallery, 100 Profsoyuznaya St., Moscow
"Visit". Peresvetov Lane., Moscow
"Roundup". Gallery "PE", Moscow
"MANI Museum - 40 Moskauer Kunstler im Frankfurt Karmelitenkloster". MANI. Frankfurt, Germany
"Kunsteuropa". Kunstverein, Tanderkezee, Germany
"La Base en Pays des Soviets". La Base, Levallois-Perret, France
"Novecento". L Gallery. Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Wandering Jew". Youth Palace, Moscow
"V izbah / in the room;. Dom kultury, Bratislava, Slovakia
"Papadny Portrait of the Transitional Period". п?п°п?п?pп?я? "A 3", Moscow
"The form and content". Gallery in Tryokhprudny Lane., Moscow
"Day of Knowledge". Movement "these" ( "The expropriation of the territory of art") and Konstantin Zvezdochetov. Regina Gallery, Moscow
"In de USSR en Erbuiten". Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Moscou-Leningrad-Tbilisi". Nouveau theatre d'Angers, Angers, France
"Perspectives of Conceptualism". The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu; Clocktower Gallery, Public School 1, New York, USA
"Geopolitics". Museum of Ethnography, Leningrad 1991-92 "Sowjetische Kunst um 1990" (Binazionale). Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1992 "Problems of Art". L Gallery, Moscow
"Documenta IX". Kassel, Germany
Opera. Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
"A Mosca ... a Mosca ... ". Galleria Communale. Herculaneum; d'Arte Moderna. Bologna, Italy
Territory of "Italiano". "Documentario-2". Milan, Italy
"Battle-Idyll". Velta Gallery. CDSA Moscow
"Apology of shyness, or art firsthand. Regina Gallery, Moscow
"3rd International Istanbul Biennal". The Greater Istanbul Municipality Nejat F. Eczacibasi Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
"Clarification of relationship with weapons". Gallery in Tryokhprudny Lane., Moscow
Humanitarian assistance. Gallery in Tryokhprudny Lane., Moscow; ICA, London
Festival of Contemporary Art. Bassi Fort, Florence, Italy
1992-93 "Perspectives of Conceptualism". North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
"Humanitarian aid parcels for Germany. 27 Moscow Artists ". Central House of Artists, Moscow; "Humanitare Hilfe, Packchen fur Deutschland". Tranenpalast, Berlin, Germany
1993 "Mjesto i sudbina". Ravelin, Dubpovnik, Hopvatiya "Adresse provisoire pour l'art contemporain russe". Musee de la Poste, Paris, France
"Art as Power, Power as Art. Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Collection d'Art Contemporain RINACO. Moscou 1993 ". Caisse des Depots et Consignations - 56 rue Jacob, Paris, France
"International print exhibition". Mashida Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Local Time". Festival non-profit projects. Velta Gallery. Petrovsky Boulevard, 12, Moscow
Artists for Bosnia ". Grazerkunstferein, Graz, Austria
1994 "Black stairs" (exhibition-action). Staircase house at St.. Krylenko, Moscow
"The artist instead of the product". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Towards the Moscow Biennale". Central House of Artists, Moscow
Cetinjski Bienale II. Cetinje, Montenegro
"Moscow Artists: a new look". Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"May Fair". Kuznetsk Bridge, 20, Moscow
"Life is too much". Galerie des Arshives, Paris, France
"Identita e rappresentazioni cartografiche". Museum of Ethnography L. Pigorini, Rome, Italy
"Artists Against AIDS". Exhibition auction. Club "Mayakovsky", Moscow
"A person in my space". Moscow Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
"The border zone of Art. Festival of Contemporary Art. Art Museum, Sochi
"Art belongs to the people". Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
"Night of Arts. Night club "Pilot", Moscow
Symposium Video and Performance. House of creativity im.Kardovskogo, Pereslavl-Zaleski
"Direct Engine / Direkte Maschine". Information Project. Moscow (Petrovsky Boulevard, 12) - Graz (territory of the city), Austria
"Victory and defeat". Gallery "Obscuri viri", Moscow
1995 "Ice-cream - Art" (exhibition-action). Moscow Khladokombinat "Ice-Fili
Spirit and soil-2 ". Kashirka, Moscow
Winter Garden. Exhibition Hall "Phoenix", Moscow
"Artists Against Sex". Night club "Manhattan Express", Moscow
"Tavriologichesky Congress". Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow; Municipal Museum, Kerch
"Opera Prima". Cankarjew dom-galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995 ". Collection of Contemporary Art Museum Tsaritsino ". Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany
"in Moskau ... in Moskau ... ". Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Esotericum". XL Gallery, Moscow
"Dry Water". Bakhchissaray Palace Museum, Bakhchisaray, Crimea
"Walking over the horizon". Profsoyuznaya 100, Moscow
Charity auction to benefit the Burn Center at Children's Hospital, N9. Contemporary Russian paintings and drawings ". Sotheby's, "ART MIF. Hotel Metropol, Moscow
"Position". Akademie die Kunste Munchen, Munich, Germany
"Zeichnungen der moskauer Szene". Galerie Hohenthal & Littler, Munich, Germany
"Moscow-Yerevan. Question Ark. Museum of Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia
"Babel". Festival of Arts "KUKART". Substitute Palace, Tsarskoe Selo
"Caravanserai Arts. Pescara, Italy
"Apocalypse". Russia State Humanities University, Moscow
"Art belongs to people" (co-curator, participant). SRC, shop windows, Moscow
"Copyright-96". Aidan Gallery, Moscow
"On the house". Profsoyuznaya 100, Moscow
1996 "How to Draw a Horse (Part Two)". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Visiting a fairy tale" (curator A. Sargsyan). Contemporary Art Center, Moscow (catalog)
Moscow Forum of Art Initiatives ( "The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality"). New Manege, Moscow
"Who am I", an exhibition at the International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Tbilisi, Georgia
"10 Commandments". Gallery "Together", Moscow
"Olympic exhibition. Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Summer Exhibition". Gallery "Moscow Fine Art", Moscow
"Artist and His Model. Gallery "Moscow Fine Art", Moscow
1997 "Sentinel of Peace". French Culture Center, Cotonou, Benin
Third Biennial of Contemporary Art. Cetinje, Montenegro
"I-I Biennale sketches and sketches". Novi Sad, Yugoslavia Project Guelman on registration Gostinui yard. Central House of Artists, Moscow
"History in Faces" (from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Tsaritsino). Novosibirsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Perm (catalog)
"In Urjupinsk with love". Uryupinsk museum
"Mystical correct". Gallery Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin Moscow Forum of Art Initiatives, Aidan Gallery ( "I Step Through Moscow"). New Manege, Moscow (catalog) "The world of sensible things in the pictures - the end of the twentieth century", Gallery M'ARS. Pushkin Museum of. Pushkin, Moscow (catalog)
"Dipapl". Musical and artistic project groups "Sea sailors" and "From the Screw. L Gallery, Moscow
"Russian Art in the 15 biographies" (from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Tsaritsino). Mucharnok, Budapest, Hungary
"Towards a different Europe. Greek Embassy, Moscow
1998 "Renovation". Exhibition Hall in the Cultural-historical center of "Slavic", Moscow
Mezhdunarozhdnaya art fair ART-MOSCOW, XL Gallery. Maly Manege. Moscow

Films with the participation of K. Zvezdochetova:
1979 "The murder of the dictator". Production of "Amanita"
1980 "Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov". Production of "Amanita"
1988 "Black Square". Central Documentary Film Studio
1995 "Trial Vinogradov". STR
1997 "Some Like It Tampax". Directed by A. Velikanov

Slide film
"ODMO". Production of "Moscow Palette", directed by Yuri Sobolev, Moscow, 1988

Recordings
1980 "Golden Disc". The "Amanita"
Autobiographical notes

Please take into consideration that I am much better than my work, and bear for them only partially responsible. Therefore, I implore! Understand and forgive me! In the future, I promise an honest and conscientious work (in the strengthening of the national culture) fully atone.

Sincerely, K. Zvezdochetov. March 27, 1996

Criticism

In the semi-serious table of ranks of unofficial art in Moscow, Konstantin Zvezdochetova - the rank of General. Despite such a high post in the military camp of Moscow conceptualism, the idea of discipline is alien to him. He generally a lot of positive qualities. For example, he shows all friendly and nice unwillingness to work.
He does not initiate the file with clippings and photographs (although it should be, professionally, etc.). I remember how Eric Frank from Geneva to persuade Kostya show anything. With difficulty, the cupboard revealed canvas, folded like a handkerchief, in the twelfth quarter. Proud by straightening his knee and showed his guest. Needless to say, that he was immediately invited to exhibit in galerie Eric FranckN
He willingly participates in all possible exhibitions, successful or unsuccessful. He enjoyed working in the company. It certainly involved in the creation of several art groups - "World Champions", such. (As often happens, "champions" stubbornly refused to acknowledge him for his father, but did not bring it back.)
. At any exhibition Zvezdochetov protects your own space, if not physical, then mental, trying to maintain a permanent presence in the contemporary Soviet art sensation of conspiracy
. Even now, when this activity ceased to be clandestine and punishable, participation is limited, and the message is not addressed to all. Let me remind you of the magnificent and untranslatable slogan that decorated the installation at the Museum of Prato, - "speak Russian please do not translate" and still exists, I hope the secret to the audience.
. Its very name, is absolutely mute for the Western man (Zvezdochotov), so artificial that it does not just take the bad taste of a nickname.
. He was loved by all, but not everyone knows what
. His exhibitions are able to put to a standstill most brave and calm critics. The public simply can not understand what is happening, make fun of her or whether she is mocking his wild, decorated with absurd care facilities. Literary themes, written or oral, accompanying the work, does not clarify the situation, but it confuses. Conversation with the author is all the more frustrating. Kosta talks about his work willingly, with the seriousness inherent in only a scientist or a clown, but by the end of the lecture interlocutor, as a rule, complaining that the artist of it "escapes".
. When he was finally taken out, demanding an explanation at last, who he was, and clearly define its credo, the interviewer gets something like this: "It's time to reveal the card ..
. I was sent to the artists as a secret agent with the objective to influence these people and their beliefs ... All my previous works were created for the purpose of conspiracy: they are only an imitation of art ... Similarly, and my preceding artistic credo was formulated to cover up the traces, and was, therefore, false ... My work - these are examples of morality and aesthetics of smuggling ... "And so on.
True story, moreover, much more interesting. Had he been a little less clever, I would have suspected him in a truly diabolical thoroughness with which he built his own biography - exactly what is needed Russian artist abroad.
. For a friendly story about their work in the Parisian art magazine "AZ" he paid eighteen months spent much of eastern Siberia
. In 1984, the year in 26-day anniversary, he was arrested, hastily drafted and sent to Kamchatka. There once a week, Major of the Army of the KGB inspired him that his so-called art manipulated in their dirty to Western intelligence. (Noticing a lack of confidence that Constantine feels towards the West, I am inclined to attribute this ultimate success of our Army counterintelligence in the early eighties, foreseeing the Russian wave in the art market.)
. The hero of his early series was the Boy-Kibalchish, who rode through the desert to the outlandish three-wheeled device, clutched in the jungle with an anaconda and taught drawing attentive Japanese girl
. Then came the history of Purdue, "a strange tribe, which keeps in its memory of ancient events: the monstrous vampire stole Sweetest holy watermelon incarnation of femininity. The hero defeats a vampire and returned watermelon people, but then fell from the hands of the ungrateful ". This infinite installation has never been exhibited as a whole, but parts of it now scattered in different countries and collections as evidence of the existence of a great country Purdue.
. Living in the space of a false epic, he invented stories no less false, but no less ambitious
. They had, as was supposed in those days, a lot of indirect Soviet associations, not to mention the fact that the main vampire wearing a sacred patronymic Ilich.
. Exhibition in Geneva, which the bones become, along with Larisa Zvezdochetova, included several staging from an imaginary ballet "The old echo
. Written in Bones libretto narrated about another failure of Satan, trying to Krishna in the guise of a demon, to steal the sacred book. Painted and draped mannequins bizarre scene played out near the different fun things, like the throne with a cage for a parrot. Near kneeling feminine Satan in the form of Krishna with a dark purple body color thundercloud. It has always portrayed the demon, destroyer and protector at the same time, in whose name Krishna or Kristna see the future of the name of Christ. However, the transition from Satan to Christ was not the only possible interpretation of the exhibition.
. At DOKUMENTA in Kassel (where only three artists invited to represent Russia - Ilya Kabakov, Coste Zvezdochetova and Masha Serebryakova), he showed great classical mosaic Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunova on a gold background
. I can not imagine what they thought about this unfortunate Germans and why Mosaic was such a success.
He does not care to be understood. It offers everything to take on faith. Because it works - not the most important. Solo myth of the artist - is the main concept of modern art. To make art, we must first make himself. Konstantin Zvezdochetov artistic career began with the most magnificent of its work: his own image. This image is irresistibly funny and worth the money to spend on his work - perhaps secretly knowing it members of the global conspiracy of artists of the East against West trusting.

A. Tarkhanov. Konstantin Zvezdochetov as an agent of influence. " - Capital, 1993, N1