Valeriy Ayzenberg – The Golden Bough

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Valeriy Ayzenberg

The Golden Bough

Video art, MPEG movie, 00:02:57

The work has the same name as James George Frazer’s opus –The Golden Bough. The main character is the equestrian statue that can be found in the South-East corner of the Central Park in New York. The work has only a small allusion to the bough itself. It is a tail painted golden. It gradually becomes clear that this is a horse skipping in snowstorm. The combination of yellow gold and white snow is the esthetic component of the video.

Valeriy Ayzenberg

September 9, 1947 – born in Ukraine

1971 – Graduated from Kharkov Polytechnic Institute

1973-1976 – Kharkov Art Institute’ School of Drawing

1980 – Began exhibiting his art

1986-1988 – member of the Hermitage artistic society, Moscow

1988 – Joined Moscow Artists’ Union

1993-1996 – lived in New-York

1995 – First video works

1998 – Established the ESPACE Program (in collaboration with N. Turnova)

1999 – Established the ESCAPE Program (including Escape-Gallery)

2002 – First literary publications

Ayzenberg has had 40 solo exhibitions and taken part in more than 200 group shows.

Nominations – “Black Square” Award winner (2003), “Kandinsky Prize” nominee (2008), “Soratnik Prize” (2006, 2009, 2010), “Kuriohin Prize”, “Attenthion Prize”.Participant of 1st Prage Biennale, 51st Venice Biennale (Russian Pavilion), and 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th  Moscow Biennale (special projects).It let out novel THE TENANT (publishing house OGI, Moscow).

Lives in Moscow, Tel-Aviv and New-York.

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