Valery Viktorovich Bashenin
Born in 1943 in the city of Votkinsk in the Urals. Graduated from the Saratov Art College in 1964. In 1973, graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Art and Industry named after S.G. Stroganov, Faculty of Monumental Painting. Has participated in exhibitions since 1975.
Works in collections
His works are in the Kemerovo Regional Art Gallery, the M'ARS Gallery in Moscow, the Zigzag Venture Group contemporary art collection in New York, and in private collections in Russia, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the USA, and Germany.
Exhibitions and auctions
1987 Group exhibition of Moscow monumentalist artists, "Sadovniki" Exhibition Hall, Moscow;
1989 First exhibition of Soviet monumentalist artists, Ravenna, Italy;
1990 ART MYTH 1. Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow;
1990 Group exhibition, M'ARS Gallery, Moscow;
1990 JEWELS IN THE MUD, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampere, Finland;
1990 Contemporary Soviet Art, "Bramante" Hall, Rome;
1991 ART MYTH 2, Moscow International Art Fair, Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow;
1992 ART-EXPO-92, International Trade Center, Tokyo;
1992 Solo exhibition, World Bank for Reconstruction and Development Representative Office, Moscow;
1992 Solo exhibition, Exhibition Hall on Mira Avenue 14, Moscow;
1992 Festival of Galleries, ART MYTH III, M'ARS Gallery, Moscow;
1993 Exhibition of 13 Moscow artists, Exhibition Hall on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow;
1993 Solo exhibition, M'ARS Gallery, Moscow;
1993 ART MYTH-93, Moscow International Art Fair, Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow.
Bibliography
I. Voeykova, "The Problem of Space on a Plane," newspaper 'Moscow Artist', June 19, 1987;
T. Malinina, "Easel Art of Monumentalists," journal 'Creativity', No. 10, 1987, pp. 24-28;
T. Malinina, "Interrelation of Arts as a Style-Forming Factor," journal 'Creativity', No. 8, 1991, pp. 8-12;
T. Malinina, "Monumentalist Artists of the New Wave," collected articles 'From Realism to Sots Art', Moscow, 1990, pp. 120-148;
Album 'Valery Bashenin', Moscow, publisher 'Panorama', 1992, introduction by O. Torchinsky;
O. Torchinsky, "Valery Bashenin", joint Russian-American journal 'PASSPORT TO THE NEW WORLD', No. 5, 1992, pp. 36-41.
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