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PIRATES

2024
Materials: paper on wood, mixed media, lacquer
53 см x 47 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 019186
80 000
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About the Artist

The pseudonym of the artists Aleksandra Gracheva (b. 1991) and Nikita Baltinskikh (b. 1990). Live and work in Yekaterinburg. Both B.A. in Art History education, UrFU named after B.N. Yeltsin.

Osip Toff works with contexts, archiving social, historical, cultural experience, processing it into incidental plots and intellectual puzzles. The works are characterized by nostalgic pathos, retro-futurism, theatricality, accentuated populism, and ambiguity of themes.

Solo shows:

2023 On The Carrousel To The Final Stop

2021 Capital City Epic, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg

2019 SCHOOL OF DEFAULT , Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg

2017 XXX, Gallery Bastejs , Riga

Group exhibitions:

2022 About Cash On Person, Ogon NCCA, Irkutsk

2021 LOOKING AFTER THE EARTHLINGS, Gallery “ZDES na Taganke”, Moscow

2020 MASKS OF TIME, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg

2020 MYTHS AND DARK ALLEYS, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg

2019 NESHEKSPIR exhibition , EverArt Weekend , Fine Art Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow

2019 The CREATION AND DESTRUCTION project (travelling group Art Exhibitions Saint Petersburg, Vladimir, Kaliningrad, Stavropol, Tolyatti, Moscow)

2019 NO CONFORMISM, D10 ART SPACE, Geneva

2018 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg

2017 THE DESIRE FOR ETERNITY, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg

2016 ON PHENOMENON, Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg

Art fairs and auctions:

2022 Cosmoscow, Ural Vision Gallery, Moscow

2021 8th Cosmoscow Foundation For Contemporary Art Charity Auction, MAMM, Moscow

2021 Viennacontemporary, Ural Vision Gallery, Vienna

2021 blazar art fair, solo booth, Ural Vision Gallery, Moscow

2019 Art Market Budapest, UVG Art Gallery, Budapes

2018 charity auction and exhibition SAMPLE X HILLEL, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

2018 spring auction and exhibition SAMPLE, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

2017 SAMPLE, Tsvetnoy ARTBasement, Moscow

Works are in private collections in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Russia, Switzerland and the UK.