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Poetics of the Absurd - ALEXANDER AKSININ Ukrainian Artist born in Lviv, Soviet Union, on October 2, 1949, and died in a plane crash near Lviv on May 3, 1985

Alexander Aksinin

Alexander Aksinin was a well-regarded printmaker and painter. He was born in Lviv, Soviet Union, on October 2, 1949, and died in a plane crash near Lviv on May 3, 1985. His sophisticated etching technique, precision and perfectionist attention to details earned him the sobriquet the “Dürer of Lviv”. Art critics hailed him as “a 20th century Piranesi” for his dramatic and elaborate constructs.

Biography

Alexander Aksinin was born to military cartographer Dmitriy Aksinin and railroad official Ludmila Aksinina. In 1972 he graduated from the Ukrainian Institute of Printing, where he specialized in Graphics Arts. In 1972–1977 Aksinin worked as an art editor in a publishing house, served in the Soviet army and then worked as an art designer in an industrial design office. Since 1977 he focused entirely on his art, in particular in the fields of printed and drawn graphics.
In 1981 Alexander Aksinin wrote the following brief autobiography for poet V. Krivulin's (in Russian) essay, where real and factual events are melded together with metaphysical observations:

In 1949 a Russian-like man was born in a European-like city of Lvov.
Christian Orthodox.
1972 - a diploma of Ukrainian Institute of Print, with specialization on Graphics.
1977 - the 1st revelation with associated sense of time.
1981 - the 2nd revelation with associated sense of eternity.
1979 - the first solo exhibition in Tallinn.
1981 - the second one in Poland.
That's it.

On May 3, 1985, on his way back from Tallinn, Alexander Aksinin died in a plane crash near Zolochiv, close to Lviv.

Art

A. Aksinin made 343 printed graphics including 3 unfinished works (mainly etching), about 200 unique drawn graphics in mixed techniques (gouache, India ink, color ink), as well as four oil paintings.

Exhibitions

Since 1974 A. Aksinin graphics have been shown at various solo and group exhibitions worldwide. The artist regularly participated in the International Biennale of Small Graphics Forms in Łódź (Poland), where he was awarded Honorable Medals in 1979 and 1985.
From 2015 his etching series "Boschiana" is included in the permanent exhibition of the Jheronimus Bosch Art Center in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.
List of Solo Exhibitions
2017

Aksinin's Labyrinths. National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014

Alexander Aksinin. Methagraphics: The Insight Experience. Lviv National Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine

2013

Poetics of the Absurd, Gallery la Brique, Frankfurt, Germany

2012

Metagraphics: Alexander Aksinin. Gallery Pionova, Gdansk, Poland
Aks-Art & Aks-Libris. Exlibris Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2010

Aksinin. Excessus. Gallery Vata, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Alexander Aksinin. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2009

Alexander Aksinin: The Inner Experience. Art Gallery Primus, Lviv, Ukraine

2008

Aksinin: Eternal Books - Visual Images. Exhibition Hall of Don State Public Library, Rostov-on-Don, Russia (video)
Time-Space-Eternity. The State Museum of A.Pushkin, Moscow, Russia (Video on YouTube)

2006

Alexander Aksinin. Day R. Museum of Contemporary Visual Art on Dmitrovskoy, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

2001

Alexander Aksinin's Etchings. Gallery Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine (video)

1992

Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

1991

Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine

1988

66 Etchings of Alexander Aksinin from private collections. Gallery of Graphics and Drawings, Gdynia, Poland; Muzeum Zamkowe, Malbork, Poland

1987

Museum of Ukrainian Art, Lviv, Ukraine

1985

Gallery In Blanco, Łódź, Poland
Art Saloon, Tallinn, Estonia

1984

Gallery of Contemporary Soviet Art, Warsaw, Poland

1981

January — Gallery Bałucka, Łódź, Poland

1979

Estonian State Art Institute, Tallinn, Estonia

Alexander Aksinin – MONTHS. EAST series 1985

Alexander Aksinin – I CHING series – 1985

Alexander Aksinin – untitled – 1985

Alexander Aksinin – BUDDHA series – 1984

Alexander Aksinin – untitled – 1984

Alexander Aksinin – INTERNAL AUDIENCE LVIV – 1984

Alexander Aksinin – I CHING series – 1984

Alexander Aksinin -untitled – 1984

Alexander Aksinin, Aksinin's Metaphysical Cube. The Herbarium of Structures (1982), incisione su carta, cm 17,8x23,5

Alexander Aksinin, Precedentary. To the Question About Leaving Life (1980), incisione su carta, cm 20x29,5

Alexander Aksinin, Reports on Precedents. Eternity (1979), incisione su carta, cm 20x27

Prints by Alexander Aksinin
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Alexander Aksinin, Fan of the White Rabbit (dalla serie Alice in Wonderland) (1977), incisione su carta, cm 16x24,5

AKSININ:Отчеты о прецедентах-Вечность\Reports on Precedents ...

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AKSININ:Отчеты о прецедентах-Вечность\Reports on Precedents-Ethernity

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A portrait of artist Alexander Aksinin by Alexey Iutin, Lviv, 1980.

Alexey Iutin - Magazine Galizka Brama 2001