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Alexander Ugay
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Description
- Alexander Ugay
- Bastion
- black and white single-channel video with sound (5 minutes, 43 seconds)
- dimensions variable
- Executed in 2007, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Tracing Roads through Central Asia, 2008
Bishkek, Boom-Boom: The 4th Bishkek International Contemporary Art Exhibition, 2008, p. 104, illustrated
Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Changing Climate: New Media and Video Art from Central Asia, 2009
New York, Queens Museum of Art; Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Tarjama/Translation, 2009-2010
London, Calvert 22, Between Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia, 2011, p. 24, illustrated
Almaty, A. Kasteev National Museum of Art, Between the Past and the Future: Archaeology of Timeliness, 2011, p. 206, illustrated
Perm, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Face of a Bride, 2012, p. 85, illustrated
Bishkek, Boom-Boom: The 4th Bishkek International Contemporary Art Exhibition, 2008, p. 104, illustrated
Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Changing Climate: New Media and Video Art from Central Asia, 2009
New York, Queens Museum of Art; Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Tarjama/Translation, 2009-2010
London, Calvert 22, Between Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia, 2011, p. 24, illustrated
Almaty, A. Kasteev National Museum of Art, Between the Past and the Future: Archaeology of Timeliness, 2011, p. 206, illustrated
Perm, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Face of a Bride, 2012, p. 85, illustrated
Literature
Christine Macel and Nataša Petrešin, Eds., Promises of the Past: A Discontinuous History of Art in Former Eastern Europe, Zurich 2010, p. 171, illustrated
Hyun Ja Shin, Ed., 2010 Report - Changdong Art Studio / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2010, p. 363, illustrated
Hyun Ja Shin, Ed., 2010 Report - Changdong Art Studio / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2010, p. 363, illustrated
Catalogue Note
"I am interested in time- how the past influences the future and vice versa, and how the reality transforms under the pressure of these currents... This video is a kind of a reverse nostalgia for new utopias, that are inevitable."
Alexander Ugay, from the artist's statement in Yulia Sorokina, Between the Past and the Future: Archeology of Timeliness, Almaty 2011
Alexander Ugay, from the artist's statement in Yulia Sorokina, Between the Past and the Future: Archeology of Timeliness, Almaty 2011