Alexander Dashevsky | Gridchinhall Gallery

COSMOSCOW 2020

"THE FORGOTTEN MEMORIAL" SERIES BY ALEXANDER DASHEVSKY is INSPIRED BY THE ESCALATION OF WARS FOR MEMORIES THAT SHAKES THE WORLD LATELY
The monument, as a way of organizing the collective memory, has a double nature. On the one hand, it gives flesh to memories, fixes them in place, on the other hand, it perpetuates, stops the time.
What processes does the dismantling of the monument triggers? Do collective memories become ghosts when they lose their sculpted body? Are they then able to appear from the other world and create an phantom? Does the ruining of the monument triggers a stopped time to run again?
A series of graphics is built around the image of a new memorial - an unauthorized dump, strewn with fragments of monuments to self-made, strong-willed men, conquerors, discoverers and demiurges.
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Alexander Dashevskiy

Alexander Dashevsky (1980). Artist, critic, curator. Member of the IFA of the Creative Union of Artists of St. Petersburg. Supervises group exhibitions and art projects. Collaborates with the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2013, he was included in the Forbes list of "8 Most Promising Young Russian Artists-Painters". In 2016 he won the Arte Laguna Prize. In 2017-18 he entered 49ART, the Russian investment art rating of outstanding contemporary artists under the age of 50.

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