Vlad Monroe. Dostoevsky in Baden-Baden

VLAD MONROEDOSTOEVSKY IN BADEN-BADENMOSCOW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

MOSCOW, 22.IV.2004—9.V.2004

Vlad Mamyshev

12/10/1969 (Leningrad) -

16/03/2013 (Bali)

Marilyn Monroe• 1986 – Novye

Khudozhniki (New Artists / New Academy)

• 1989: Piratskoe Televidenie (Pirate TV); first appearance as Marylin Monroe

• 1990s: the XL Gallery; writing for the magazines ‘Kabinet’, ‘Ptyuch’

Lyubov Orlova• 2000 – first

appearance as Lyubov Orlova

• 2006 – ‘Volga-Volga’ with Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe starring as Dunya Petrova

• 2007 – the Kandinsky Prize in the category ‘Media Art. Project of the Year’ for ‘Volga-Volga’

Quiz: Who is that?

• more than 70 impersonations of celebrities, monarchs, great historical and literary figures;

• more than 30 impersonations of film, novel and fairy tale characters

Quiz: Who is that?

• works are kept in more than 20 museums and private collections in and outside Russia;

• more than 30 personal exhibitions;

• participation in more than 70 contemporary art exhibitions

Religion

2003 – the notorious ‘Ostorozhno, religiya!’ (‘Caution, Religion!) exhibition

Shakespeare

2012 – starring in the fashion-performance ‘Polonium’

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for gay rights

Quiz: Who is that?

What associations do we have with the name

‘Dostoevsky’?

What is the connection between Dostoevsky and Baden-Baden?

How are Dostoevsky’s novels different?

What is special about Dostoevsky’s characters?

What themes are in the focus of his attention?

religion and

Christianity

nature, sole, land

spiritual search and lost souls

morality and the ‘Russian

soul’

‘infernality’ and vice

suffering and

solitude

‘picaresque’ narrative and

plotlines

gambling

self-seeking and self-

knowledge

‘polyphony’ of equal voices; a ‘dialogue’ between the

author and his characters

Dostoevsky and Vlad Monroe: discussion