ROPE Alexander Zinovievich

Genus. 1955 (Moscow)

Painter, graphic artist

creations began to work independently, professional art education has not received. In 1974, after a stay in a psychiatric hospital became known as an artist through the documentary film about the creation of unsound mind "Schizophrenia. In 1974, exhibited his work in a psychiatric hospital number 15 in Moscow. Subsequently exhibited at the pavilion of the House of Culture "on VDNKh - the first officially sanctioned exhibition of new art (1975), participated in the exhibits section of the Municipal Committee of painting schedules in Malaya Georgian street in Moscow, as well as numerous apartment exhibitions.

artist's solo exhibitions were held in 1985 in the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, 1986 - at the University of Pennsylvania, 1990 - Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in New Jersey (CASE Museum of Contemporary Russian Art) as well as in private galleries in Washington and New York. He also participated in many group exhibits artists of the so-called "other art" abroad, in particular, participated in exhibitions of "culture shock" in Philadelphia (1983), show non-conformist artists in Berlin (1985), "Moscow avant-garde. 1950-1980 "in Nord-Hessene," non-conformist art in Russia. 1955-1995 "in Lyudvigshafene, Kassel and Altenburg (1995) and others.

In 1989 he emigrated to the United States, became the organizer of the art-party Pravda Lives and works in the United States.

in 2001-2002 at the Museum "Other Art" was held in Moscow exhibition Shnurov "Proshlobuduschee" in 2007 Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, an exhibition, "Over the Kamasutra for the high level of morality in art, in which the artist has shown their work last time.

creativity of the artist close to the thematic preferences Sots-art: it makes extensive use of Soviet symbols, and stamps, often placing them in a surreal context.

Shnurov works are in several museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Museum of "Other Art" (the former collection of LP Talochkin).