Vladimir Tarasov is a legendary musician and composer, the founder of the so-called "free jazz". In the 1980s and 90s, together with Ilya Kabakov, he began developing the idea of a "total installation", including the visual phenomena of sound in its strategies. "Inside out", one of his latest projects, immerses the viewer into the intermediate stage-state between the sound and the image. The five synchronized projections show close-ups of a musician's hands and feet while on the screen behind the viewers' backs the whole figure of the musician can be seen. The blow-ups of individual details make it possible for the viewer to "see the rhythm" and to "feel the sound" through the visual images of mutual coordination among the various parts of the human body. The sound and the image in this project are born simultaneously in their natural, visual, material forms in order to unite in the complete image of man.
Biography
Born in Archangelsk in 1947. Since 1968 lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania.
In 1971-1986 was a member of the contemporary jazz music trio – GTCh (Viacheslav Ganelin, Vladimir Tarasov, Vladimir Chekasin). From 1991 collaborated with Ilya Kabakov. The author of sound installations in collaborative projects. In 1999-2002 was a director of Russia Drama Theatre of Lithuania.
Collaboration with other artists:
“What we hear, what looks at us. Visual Acoustics”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2007)
“Close to not” (with Sara Flohr), State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg (2005), “Swamp gold” (with Anatoly Belkin)
State Hermitage Museum, St.-Petersburg (2004)
THE WAGON “LET’S GO GIRLS” (with Ilya Kabakov), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2003)
INCIDENT IN THE MUSEUM OR WATER MUSIC (Ilya Kabakov)
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (2000)
INSTALLATION AT SOLITUDE (Sarah Flohr), Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
ALLE (Carolin Helga Motz), Galerie in der Zehntscheuer, Moglingen
MUSIC ON THE WATER (Ilya Kabakov), Schloss Salzau, Kiel (1996)
INCIDENT IN THE MUSEUM OR WATER MUSIC (Ilya Kabakov), Fundacio Antonio
Tapies, Barselona; Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon (1995)
C’EST ICI QUE NOUS VIVONS (Ilya Kabakov), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1995)
THE RED WAGON (Ilya Kabakov), Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
THE RED CORNER (Ilya Kabakov), Kulturhuset, Stockholm (1994)
RED PAVILLION (Ilya Kabakov), La Biennale de Venizia, Venice
RED PAVILLION (Ilya Kabakov), Kunsthalle, Koln (1993)
INCIDENT IN THE MUSEUM OR WATER MUSIC (Ilya Kabakov), Ronald Feldman Gallery,
New York (1992)
THE RED WAGON (Ilya Kabakov), Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (1991)
Selected solo exhibitions:
2005
Sound games, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius
2004
Litani, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2003
Sound games,, State Russian Museum St. Petersburg; SHEHINA, Lietuvos Aido Galerija
2000/01
CHRISTMAS WREATH, Vilnius Churches
2000
ACH SO… Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
NEW YORK - NEW YORK Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius; Barrick Museum, Las Vegas
1999
ACH SO… Giedre Bartelt Gallery, Berlin
1998
MUSIC OF SPIRITS Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius
NOCTURNE FOR PAPER Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren
1997
BELLS FOR ST. CASIMIR St. Casimir Church, Vilnius
CONCERT FOR FLIES # 3 Tallin City Gallery, Tallinn
1996
CONCERT FOR FLIES # 2 Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius
WATER MUSIC Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius
1995
WATER MUSIC Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
1994
WATER MUSIC Staedische Galerie, Iserlon
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