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		Gerlovin Rimma and Valeriy

Biographical information

Valeriy Gerlovin (American, b. Russia 1945) graduated as a stage designer from the School-Studio of the Moscow Art Theater of Stanislavsky (MKhAT) in 1967. Rimma Gerlovina (American, b. Russia 1951) majored in philology at the Moscow State University in 1973. Married in 1970, live in the United States since 1980. Work as a group since 1971. Moved to New-York City in 1980.
Rimma and Valeriy`s website - http://www.gerlovin.com/

Collections where works are held

The State Trtyakov Gallery, Moscow
The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles
The Getty Researh Institute, Los Angeles
Ackland Art Museum, NC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Participation in exhibitions and auctions

SELECTED SOLO&GROUP SHOWS

2010
Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum, the Scottsdale Museum of ContemporaryArt, AZ
100 Years of Performance, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Gender Check, travelling exhibition with catalog, hosted by Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig: Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2010 Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria, 2009-2010
Through The Past to the Future and Conceptual Russian Games, Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art, New York
Moscow Grafika, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.
2009
Not Toys, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (part of The Third Moscow Biennial)
Interpretation of the Object in Moscow Conceptual School, Project Fabrica, Moscow, Russia (part of The Third Moscow Biennial)
From Non-Conformism to Feminism, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2008
History of “A-Ja” Magazine, Sakharov Museum, Moscow
Wonders of Numbers: Art about Mathematics, the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
40 The First, The State Art Gallery of Perm, Perm and Contemporary Art Museum Art4.RU, Moscow, Russia
2007
Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Art Museum, Charlotte, NC
New Angelarium, Modern Art Museum, Moscow
Short Stories. Photographs 1890-2006, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2006
Russia! The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Book-in-Itself, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
Artists Against the State, Russian Art After Perestroyka, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Hand in Hand, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
2005
Russia! The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Collaborators, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (part of The First Moscow Biennale)
2004
Perhappiness, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
Realizing a Future, Jewish Museum, New York
Takamatsu City Museum, 2001;
Museum of Kyoto (EKI), 2000;
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2000;
2002
Eye in the Sky, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. NC
Femme Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2001
Bruce Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich, CT, 2001,
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston Collage, Chesnut Hill, MA, 2000,
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia, 1999;
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 1999;
Pasadena Art Centre, CA, 1998,
2000
American Art, United States Embassy in Namibia, Windhoek, catalog
Photography, Beacon Gallery, Bellport Long Island, NY
1999
University of Colorado Gallery, Boulder, CO, 1993 Selsby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL, 1993;
1998
Contemporary Photography, Denver Museum, Denver, CO
Beyond Recognition, travelling exhibition organized with catalog, including:
The Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1998
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, 1996
1997
The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 1996;
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 1996;
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, 1995
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 1997
Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga, TN, 1997;
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1996;
Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, PA, 1995;
1996
Photoglyphs, Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville am Rhein, Germany (solo)
Wollong City Art Gallery, Wallong NSW, 1996;
Primsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, 1996;
Lawrenns Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, WA, 1996;
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW, 1995;
Polaroid Collection, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludvigshafen-am-Rhein;
Documenta-Halle, Kassel;
1993
PreFace, SteinbaumKrauss Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
New Works, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1992
Looking Glass, Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1991
Photoglyphs, Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1990
Photoglyphs, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C (solo)
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY, 1990
Transit: Russian Artists between East and West, travelling exhibition with catalog, 4 venues, including:
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Long Island, NY, 1989
Nakhamkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1989;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1990;
1989
Still Performances, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (solo)
Altar Pieces, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
1988
Photems, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (solo, series Phomes is made in collaboration with Mark Berghash)
Blank Wall Solution, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1987
Fact-ury - Scuptures, Zeus Trabia Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
rUSsia, City Gallery, New York
Retrospective of Moscow Artists, 1957-1987, Hermitage Amateur Society, Moscow, Russia
1986
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, IL;
Bass Museum of The Arts, Miami Beach, Fl,
1985
Cubic Organisms, St. Peter’s Church, Citicorp, New York, NY (solo)
Grommet Gallery, New York (later Emily Harvey Gallery) exhibitions: Ear Works, Mixed Grill, New Papers, 1984
Man of Babel, La Galleria Dell’Occhio, New York, NY (solo)
Russian Samizdat Art, organizing the traveling exhibition with 12 venues, hosted by Franklin Furnace Gallery, NY,
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR 1997
Washington Project for the Arts, (WPA) Washington. D.C., 1982
1983
Suspended Objects, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Sacred Artifacts, Alternative Museum, New York, catalog
1982
XII Biennale of the Young, Paris, France, artists’ books.
Monumental Redefined Second Annual Festival, Brooklyn, NY
1981
XXI Bienal de São Paolo, Brazil, Arte Postal, catalog
Nonconformists, University Art Gallery, University of Maryland, MD, catalog
1978
La Biennale di Venezia, Settore arti visive, Venice, Italy, catalog
Dissenso, Museo Civico di Lodi, Lodi, Italy, catalog
1977
La Biennale di Venezia, La nuova arte sovietica, Venice, Italy, catalog
New Art from the Soviet Union, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, and The Art Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.
1976
Exhibition at Leonid Sokov’s studio: I. Chuikov, I. Chelkovski, V. Gerlovin, R. Gerlovina, S. Shablavin, L.Sokov, A. Yulikov, Moscow, Russia
1974
Open Exhibition in the Izmailovo Park, Moscow, 1974 (Valeriy Gerlovin)
1973- 71
Various unofficial exhibitions in artists’ studios and apartments, Moscow (V.G.)
1971
Five Artists,The Art Club of the Department of Mathematics, The Moscow State University, Moscow (V.G.)
1968
50 Years of Soviet Circus, The Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow (V.G.)
1966
Stage Design Models, Russian Theater Society (VÒÎ), Moscow (V.G.)

Autobiographical notes

http://www.gerlovin.com/index.html

What the critics say

"In 1974 and `75, Rimma Gerlovina put together a series of "Cubes" with text on the outside and inside, creating a sort of aphoristic narrative (in the cube called "The Soul," the outside reads "Don`t open; it will fly away," while the inside reads "There it goes"). Finally, in the category of objects free of any words or text, we find works which may be viewed as poetic because they are made from and meant for games. In the 1970s, Rimma and Valerii Gerlovin made pieces from dried bread and metal constructor-sets...

In search of the anti-logos, an antidote to the totality of text, an indeterminate realm, an artist could turn either to the sphere of the human body or to the spatial sphere of nature. Rimma and Valerii Gerlovin embodied the first, "anthropological" tendency. They were interested in man as a biological entity, inseparable from nature (during their 1977 performance piece "Homo Sapiens," they sat naked in a cage), as well as the game-like determinism which underscored the unpredictability of life and the impossibility of conceptualizing it (for example, the "Victorina" project in the 1970s, wherein viewers were invited to study a group photograph and determine, based solely on this evidence, the order in which the people in the photograph would die). The Gerlovins emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979, and continue their "games" in the United States."

Ekaterina Degot
The Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Art as Historical Background

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