Encounters: Victor Alimpiev

15 June – 31 August 2008

Lower Gallery, Modern Art Oxford

Press View: Friday 13 June, 11am – 1pm

Victor Alimpiev’s films and videos address the subtleties of human expression. With their origins in painting, and incorporating elements of music, dance and theatre, Alimpiev’s elegantly staged works offer an absorbing reflection on the relationship between individuals and the collective.

Victor Alimpiev's exhibition at Modern Art Oxford will include his well-known work Summer Lightnings from 2004, an enigmatic evocation of a peculiar natural phenomenon, involving a group of young schoolchildren. As a counterpart, the new work Whose is this exhalation?, 2008, embodies Alimpiev's fascination for the senses, and their elucidation through actors.

Andrew Nairne, Director of Modern Art Oxford, said,
“We are delighted to present two of Victor Alimpiev’s seductive films. Alimpiev is one of the most original contemporary Russian artists, with an increasingly international reputation.”

The exhibition is the fifth in our encounters series and Alimpiev’s first exhibition in the UK. encounters is a programme of exhibitions in the Lower Gallery, displays at our partner schools and in the community, and special projects and events.

Born in 1973, the artist lives and works in Moscow.

Victor Alimpiev will be in conversation with Andrew Nairne at Modern Art Oxford on Tuesday 17 June, 6.30pm. In association with Academia Rossica. Admission is free. Booking essential on 01865 813800.

Also showing 15 June – 31 August 2008: Gary Hume: Door Paintings.

Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 12pm to 5pm, Closed Mondays. Admission Free.

For further details please visit www.modernartoxford.org.uk or call 01865 722733.

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For further press information and images please contact Sara Dewsbery, Press & Marketing Officer on 01865 813813, email sara.dewsbery@modernartoxford.org.uk

Encounters is supported by the David Elliott Fund.

Note to Editors

Solo exhibitions include: Victor Alimpiev, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy, 2007; Victor Alimpiev, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum for Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium, 2007; Victor Alimpiev – Two Songs, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany, 2007 and Victor Alimpiev, screening within the cycle “Prospectif cinema”, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2007.

Group exhibitions include: Paul Klee – Theater here, there and everywhere, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, 2007; International and National Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA, 2007; 4th Berlin Biennale, 2006; Russia!, Guggenheim museum, Bilbao, Spain, 2006; Fremd bin ich eingezogen, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2006; Russia!, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, 2005 and Individual Systems, 50 Beinnale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2003.

Press contact

For further press information and images please contact Sara Dewsbery on 01865 813813.


RECENT PRESS QUOTES

Gary Hume
'The doors that unhinged the establishment.'
Alastair Sooke, The Daily Telegraph

'Some forbidding, some strangely inviting.'
Robert Clark, The Guardian

'The Door Paintings aren’t just clever non-paintings, blending the detachment of Pop Art with the rigour of Minimalism…they have powerful presence.'
Tom Lubbock, The Independent

Mircea Cantor/Ansel Adams/Katie Paterson
‘Three fantastic exhibitions.’
Jo Halstead, The Oxford Mail

Mircea Cantor
‘Cantor has a gift for bringing metaphor to life...these overlapping elements – magic carpet, gilded cage, miraculous tree – seem rooted in eastern European fairy tales but separately return you to modern reality.’
Laura Cumming, The Observer

Ansel Adams
‘Widely recognised as the greatest landscape photographer of his century.’
Benjamin Secher, Daily Telegraph

Katie Paterson
‘In an inspired pairing, Paterson shares the exhibition space with the American landscape photographer Ansel Adams…Paterson using modern technology to find the poetry in landscape that Adams captured through his camera lens.’
Tim Cooper, The Sunday Times

Trisha Donnelly
'In a world in which aesthetic comprehension so often relies on comparison and cross-reference Donnelly regularly achieves the rare feat of creating images that simply look like nothing we have ever seen before.'
Jonathan Griffin, Frieze

Stella Vine: paintings
‘Diana and her demons, Kate and cocaine, Jose Mourinho and his dog. Is any subject too raw for this notorious artist?’
Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times

‘Every brushstroke threatens disintegration.’
Extract from the catalogue foreword, Mirror, Mirror by Professor Germaine Greer

‘I can’t wait to see her Oxford show – I think she’s the real deal.’
Lynn Barber, The Observer

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'Fast, witty, scintillatingly weird.'
Laura Cumming, The Observer

'Three subversive raids on the image banks of global media.'
Robert Clark, The Guardian

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'Serenely beautiful paintings by one of of the most accomplished artists working in Britain today.'
Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph-Review

'The huge canvases of Callum Innes are so intense, you soon find yourself in a state of meditation.'
Rachel Cooke, The Observer-Review

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‘Daniel Buren's triumphant return to Britain.'
Adrian Searle, The Guardian

'This show makes the case for his position as France's most eminent living artist.'
Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times

Arrivals
‘Modern Art Oxford continued its exhilarating programme of international art from Estonia to Istanbul (you saw it here first, it ought to be called).'
Laura Cumming, The Observer: The Year in the Arts 2006

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