Larisa Yurievna Zvezdochetova-Rezun
1958: Born in Odessa.
1975-82: Studied at the Ushinsky Odessa Pedagogical Institute (Art and Graphics Faculty).
Works in collections
Collection of Contemporary Art of the State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, Moscow
Neue Galerie - Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Musee de l'Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Galleria Carini, Florence, Italy
Galerie Franck Eric, Geneva, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany
Company 'Rinako', Moscow
E. Solomon, New York, USA
P. Sprovieri, Rome, Italy
P. Halonen, Helsinki, Finland
Exhibitions and auctions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989 “New Works”. First Gallery, Moscow
1990 “Schoenheit rettet die Welt”. Galerie Avantgard, Berlin, Germany
1992 “Life and Death; the Hunter and the Deer”. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Joint with K. Zvezdochetov. Musee de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
1993 “None More Beautiful Than You”. L Gallery, Moscow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1983 “APTART behind the fence”. Tarasovka, Moscow region
1984 “Odessa-Moscow”. APTART Gallery, Moscow
1987 First exhibition of the Club of Avant-Gardists (KLAVA). Peresvetov side street, Moscow
1989 “Expensive Art”. Palace of Youth, Moscow
“...up to 33”. Palace of Youth, Moscow
“Rauschenberg - to us, we - to Rauschenberg”. First Gallery, Moscow
“Inexpensive Art”. First Gallery, Moscow
“Furmanny Zaulek”. Dawne Zaklady Norblina, Warsaw, Poland
“Medhermeneutics and Others”. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne, Germany
New Jerusalem (exhibition-action). Club of Avant-Gardists. New Jerusalem, Moscow region
“Dialogue”. 'Avant-Garde' Russe et Art Contemporain Sovietique. Centre Boris Vian. Ville des Ulis, Paris, France
“Perspectives of Conceptualism”. Peresvetov side street, Moscow
1990 “Made in Furmanny”. City Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
“ISKKONSTBO”. Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
“The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika”. Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, USA
“XLIV Biennale di Venezia”. Aperto, Venice, Italy
“Schizo-China”. Club of Avant-Gardists. Exhibition Pavilion on Frunzenskaya Embankment, Moscow
“Biennale of the Baltic States”. Museum of Contemporary Art, Rauma, Finland
“Eroosio”. Helsinki, Finland
“For Cultural Leisure”. 'Kashirka', Moscow
1990-91 “Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism”. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma; ICA, Boston; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
1991 “Visit”. Peresvetov side street, Moscow
“Novecento”. L Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow
“V izbah/In Rooms”. House of Culture, Bratislava, Slovakia
“Private Lessons”. Gallery 1.0. Exhibition Hall on Solyanka, Moscow
“Raid”. Gallery 'CHP', Moscow
“MANI Museum - 40 Moscow Artists in Frankfurter Karmelitenkloster”. MANI. Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“A Chicken is No Bird”. Picaron ed., Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Aesthetic Experiments”. Kuskovo Estate, Moscow
1991 “Perspectives of Conceptualism”. The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu; Clocktower Gallery, Public School 1, New York, USA
1991-92 “Soviet Art around 1990” (Binazionale). Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Central House of Artists, Moscow
1992 “a Mosca... a Mosca...”. Villa Campoleto, Ercolano; Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
1992-93 “Perspectives of Conceptualism”. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
1993 “Adresse provisoire pour l’art contemporain russe”. Musee de la Poste, Paris, France
“Collection d’Art Contemporain RINACO. Moscou 1993”. Caisse des Depots et Consignations - 56 rue Jacob, Paris, France
“White Nights”. Yakut Gallery, Moscow
1994 “Fluchtpunkt Moskau”. Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
“Europa '94”. Munich, Germany
Cetinje Biennial II. Cetinje, Montenegro
1995 “Kunst im verborgenen. Nonconformists Russia 1957-1995”. Collection of Contemporary Art, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany
“Dry Water”. Bakhchisarai Palace Museum, Bakhchisarai, Crimea
“in Moscow... in Moscow...”. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Einblicke" (Werkstatt Moskau II). Galerie im Marstall, Akademie der Kunste am Hanseatenweg, Kunstlerhof Buch, Berlin, Germany
1996 Gallery 'Roza Azora', Moscow
"Visiting a Fairy Tale" (curator O. Sarkisyan). CSI, Moscow (catalog)
1997 "History in Faces" (from the collection of contemporary art, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve). Samara, Perm, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg (catalog)
III Biennial of Contemporary Art. Cetinje, Montenegro
"Russian Art in 15 Biographies" (from the collection of contemporary art, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve). Mucharnok, Budapest, Hungary
Critic
Like Yuri Leiderman, the 'Peppers', and Sergey Anufriev, Larisa Rezun-Zvezdochetova is a native of Odessa. She, like other Odessans, has a tendency towards black humor, especially in her early works. But many titles of her pieces include words from the range of 'beauty', 'the beautiful'. For a long time, she was professionally involved in folk art. She knows well that when some rural or urban dweller decorates their house, car, or refrigerator in an incredible way, they do so out of a passion for beauty. And the concept of beauty is unstable. The beauty in Larisa Rezun-Zvezdochetova's works can be perceived as ironic. The materials she uses - the brightest paints, synthetic brocade and fake velvet, items from shops like 'Everything for 10 francs' - are already stably associated with kitsch. But behind the irony, and by no means a naive magpie's love for all that glitters, lies what makes Larisa Rezun-Zvezdochetova a unique artist. The instability of the concept of beauty, the gentle insistence of kitsch dissipates like mist.
N. Alekseev. From the catalog of the exhibition “Adresse provisoire pour l’art contemporain russe”. Musee de la Poste, Paris, France, 1993.
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