KOSOLAPOV Alexander

Winterthur | Switzerland

KOSOLAPOV Alexander

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Born in 1943
Alexander Semyonovich Kosolapov graduated from the sculptural department of the Stroganov Art School in 1969.
He has worked in the realm of Sots-art since 1972, combining the visual products of the communist ideology with the products of western mass-culture in his works. In 1975 he immigrated to the US.
He has taken part in many artistic exhibitions in a number of European countries and in the United States. The artist’s works have been exhibited in the world’s leading museums and private collections. The artistic forms created by Kosolapov, including “Lenin and Coca-Cola,” “Marlboro Malevich,” “Lenin Mickey Mouse,” have been widely distributed and mass produced into souvenirs and posters.
From 1999-2000 he worked in New York and in Moscow. Kosolapov’s work, which is connected with the use of religious symbols, became cause for attacks from the Russian church organizations against the artist and the organizers of his exhibitions.

Exhibitions

1974 – Alexander Kosolapov. Artists’ House at Kuznetsky Most Str., Moscow
1985 – Alexander Kosolapov. Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA
1987 – Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Anna Friebe, Cologne, Germany
1988 – Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany
1990 – Alexander Kosolapov. Berman Gallery, New York, USA
1991 – Alexander Kosolapov. Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, USA. Belkin, Chuikov, Kosolapov. Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin
1993 – New Post-Communist Billboards oder Bilder aus dem Neuen Russland. Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany
1994 – Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg, Germany
1997 – Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Karenina, Vienna
2000 – Sots Art/Pop Art. Duke University Museum of Art , Durham, USA
2003 – Mickey-Lenin. Gallery of One Work, Moscow

Kontakt / Bilder