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NOT EVERYONE WILL BE TAKEN INTO THE FUTURE

2016
Materials: Цифровая печать
1 см x 100 см
Category: prints
Item Number: 153528
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About the Artist

Sergey Mironenko (b. 1959, Moscow) is an artist, graphic designer, and author of objects and installations, as well as a representative of Moscow Conceptualism. In 1978, together with his brother Vladimir Mironenko and Konstantin Zvezdochetov, he became one of the members of the group Mukhomor. Between 1983 and 1984, during the repression directed against the group, he worked as chief designer at the Vorkuta Polar Drama Theatre. In 1984, he returned to Moscow, where he officially worked as chief designer for the journal Priroda (1985–87). Since 1987, he has been a member of the “Club of Avant-Gardists” (KLAVA); in 1989–1990, he was awarded a fellowship by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (USA); and since 1993, he has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. He has participated in exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, USA), the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the National Gallery of Iceland (Reykjavík), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow).

Sergey Mironenko’s artistic practice is grounded in an ironic deconstruction of the visual codes of power and an exploration of the boundaries between art and political gesture. He critically reinterprets Soviet mythologies and propaganda techniques, masterfully manipulating the aesthetics of posters, slogans, and other forms of public address in order to expose the absurdity of ideological constructions.

Mironenko’s works are held in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Ludwig Forum for International Art (Aachen), the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (New Jersey, USA), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (North Carolina, USA), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), and the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary).