Lavrov Aleksandr Lvovich (born April 12, 1962) is an artist.

Key Facts About His Work

Gorky Art School (1979). He has exhibited professionally since 1986. He works in painting, graphic art, sculpture, and art objects; over decades of creative activity he has realized about 60 projects in contemporary art, working within the territory of nonconformism, postmodernism, pop art, and kitsch. His artistic formation was influenced by the Nizhny Novgorod artists Aleksandr Danilov and Gennadiy Urlin; at the start of his career Lavrov worked in an offset print shop and at the Electron movie theater, took part in exhibitions at the House of Architects, and visited the hall of the Moscow City Committee of Graphic Artists on Malaya Gruzinskaya, where nonconformist artists exhibited. In the 1990s Lavrov also did book illustration, designing 12 books. In the early 2000s Lavrov became fascinated with pop art and created the "Toy Museum" in Nizhny Novgorod, where the exhibition is refreshed every three months; an exhibition devoted to the Barbie doll drew particular interest from visitors.

In 2015, for an exhibition at the Literary Museum, Lavrov created the installation Vanitas — a "gathering" of poets and writers of the Silver Age: their portraits were placed as bas-reliefs on the backs of chairs arranged around a round table that had belonged to Gorky. Lavrov is a two-time nominee for the Kandinsky Prize, a participant in exhibitions at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), as well as at the Arsenal (Nizhny Novgorod); in the 2020s he has collaborated with the Tikhaya studio (Nizhny Novgorod).[1][1][1][1][1][1] One of the organizers of the associations "Ego" and "Decadence." Participant in youth and group exhibitions in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Vladivostok, Riga, New York, Paris, and elsewhere. He collaborates with the Russky Vek gallery (Nizhny Novgorod) and the Karina Shanisheva gallery (Moscow).

See also

  • Russky Vek Gallery

Sources

  1. fabergemuseum-regions.ru — Lavrov works in painting, graphic art, sculpture, and art objects; over decades of creative activity he has realized about 60 projects in the field of contemporary ar (archive)