Alexander Ponomarev - Silvia Burini Giuseppe Barbieri Gebunden

This eagerly awaited first monograph focuses on Alexander Ponomarev one of Russia's most eminent and singular contemporary artists.Alexander Ponomarev is one of Russia's most widely known contemporary artists renowned both at home and abroad. In 2014 he was featured in Time magazine as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers thanks to the vast range of devices he employs to express his ideas such as drawings vast complex installations and a variety of technologies. He also captures some of the planet's most extreme and least accessible landscapes symbolizing what he views as a world tha t is culturally and morally adrift.The themes he tackles are those he considers of critical relevance to today's world: the rapport between science and art the exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic the retrieval of ancient engineering traditions vs. today's advanced technologies and the crucial and urgent issue of climate change.The volume includes two ample introductory essays describing his position in the Russian context of art production over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and his roots in the artistic and humanist culture of the early modern era (Vitruvius Leonardo Titian and the major geographical explorations etc.).