Pavel Kiselev

Russian artist, born in 1984 in Moscow, graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art and the British Higher School of Design with a degree in Contemporary Art. Multidisciplinary artist, participant of a large number of personal and group exhibitions in Russia and other countries. Winner of international awards in the field of contemporary art. Pavel Kiselev creates original abstract panels from numerous wooden parts, juxtaposing them like fragments of a mosaic. Often, the “details” are well-known images from the masterpieces of world classical painting; in other cases, they are random images captured by the artist on camera, strangers. Basically, these are monochrome human figures, collectively representing an impersonal multitude, a conditional “crowd”, essentially a collage of fragments of images that lose their original meaning and value, forming a secondary product and actually turning into information noise. The “Secret Society of Eight Angles” series is a series of works based on a large-scale legend created by the artist himself. According to the “legend,” ancient artifacts belonging to an unknown civilization were found during excavations in the center of Moscow. It was they, according to the artist’s idea, that became the basis of our cultural code. Thus, the exhibition project turns into a unique game with a huge layer of pseudoscientific information, which instantly leads to the emergence of a whole world with its own customs and artifacts - both everyday and ritual - capable of convincing an inexperienced viewer of the absolute reality of what is happening.