From Soviet to Global Underground
Valera Cherkashin with his cousin. 1953
Night with a Pioneer Leader. 1967
Bodybuilding in the USSR. 1963
"The End of Soviet Epoch" 1992
"German Atlantis". Berlin 1996
Favorite Portraits of European People. Underwater Installation. 1999
Global Underground. Stockholm Metro. 2007
Moscow Metro. Komsomolskaya. 2009
This lecture includes several major periods of artistic work and life of Valera & Natasha Cherkashin from 1962 to 2008.
1. 1960's to 1980's. Self posing and first art happenings in Kharkov, Ukraine.
2. 1980 - 1990. Beginning of the artistic work with photography and developing personal style.
3. 1990 - 1995. Beginning of Perestroika and the End of Soviet Epoch. Work with the cultural heritage of the USSR: the Moscow subway, the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, the Stalin skyscrapers and the mythology of that time.
(exhibitions, installations, art happenings in Moscow Underground).
4. 1999-2000. Work with the cultural heritage of Europe. Good-bye Favorite European Portraits: Hello Euro - an underwater exhibition in atrium pool of The World Bank Headquarters, Washington, DC. It was dedicated to exchange of European currencies for Euro.
5. Since 2005 work on the project Global Underground. Digital art works and video art about subways of the World.
Digital images and video art will be shown.
We need a lap top and VCR projector for our presentations.