Aleksandr Zakirov (b. 1989, Barnaul) is an artist and curator based in Krasnoyarsk who works with painting, performance, partisan public art, and interventions. A founding member of the art collective Kipish-Grad, Zakirov explores such issues as authorship and appropriation, seriousness of art, and urban space. He has worked as an independent curator at the Ploshchad Mira Museum.
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Impressionistic Study, 2019. “Wow, I'm in St. Petersburg! <…> there is so much beauty, Baroque, Classicism and drug addicts all around <…>! There are no such things in my boring home city of Krasnoyarsk. THANK GOD!”
A Giorgione Copy Painted by Naked Male Bodies, 2020. (still from performance documentation). This performance was inspired by Anthropometry—famous work by Yves Klein who used female models as “human paintbrushes”
Mole, 2017. From the Street Destroyers series. Zakirov introduces a character from the famous Czech cartoon Krtek into urban space
Bears, 2020. In this reflection on collaborations and copyright, Zakirov erases all but bears from Shishkin’s painting Morning in a Pine Forest: in fact, bears were painted by another artist, Konstantin Savitsky
Pavlensky on the Krasnoyarsk Red Square, 2019. The infamous actionist Petr Pavlensky, who nailed his scrotum to Red Square in Moscow, now finds himself in Krasnoyarsk
Ice Cream Cone, 2017. From a series of interventions into the local history museum in Kamchatka
