Galerie Blue Square : galerie d'art russe contemporaine - contemporary russian art gallery - Paris

Born in 1954 in the town of Ivdel in the Sverdlovsk region of the Urals, Vladimir Nasedkin lives and works today in Moscow. During the years 1971-1976, the artist studied in the Graphic Art Faculty of Nizhny Tagil State Teacher's Training College under the supervision of L.I. Perevalov and K.P. Cherepanov. He became a member of the Russian Union of Artists in 1983 and was awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1996. 

2010
Transit, Krokin Gallery, Moscow

Russian Artists : an Art Superlative, Saint André Abbey Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France

2008
KULIBIN group projekt (group exhibition), Krokin Gallery, Moscow

2007-08
The Barriers, Krokin Gallery, Moscow

Collages Russes (group exhibition), Galerie Blue Square, Paris

2006  
Drawings, Magazine "Tatlin" Publishing House, Moscow

2005
Maris-Art Gallery, Moscow

Ekaterinburg Art Museum, Ekaterinburg

2004
Exhibition of drawings (together with Vagapov and Ganzin), Sterlitamak, Bashkortostana

Kino Gallery, Moscow

2002
Shadows of Tibet, Russian Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Geometry, Krokin Gallery, Moscow

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Structures of the Sea, Exhibition of water-colors, Tumen

2001
Structures. Novosibirsk State Picture Gallery, Novosibirsk

2000
Novaja Collectsija Gallery, Moscow

Architecture of water, metal and stones, Architecture Museum, Ekaterinburg

1999
Vladimir + Vladimir, Vladimir Gallery, Municipal Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine

Graphic Center of Artists Union, Vilnius, Lituania

Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad

1998
Graphic Art Centre, Vilnius, Lituania 

Art Lyceum-Hostel named after S. Dyagilev, Ekateriburg

1997
Nizhny Tagil State Art Museum, Nizhny Tagil, Russia

1996
Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad

Kino Gallery, Moscow

1995
Aurora Gallery, Tver

1994
Voevodskaya Gallery, Katowice, Poland

1993
Ekateriburg State Art Museum, Ekateriburg

1983-93
Art Gallery, Kheb, Czechoslovakia

Exhibition Hall of Artists Union, Mary, Turkmeniya

Exhibition Hall of RSFSR Artists Union Tverskaja 46, Moscow

Union Gallery, Moscow

Kurgan State Art Museum, Kurgan

2005
G.Mosin Prize of Sverdlovsk Region Ministry of Culture

1998
Prize of Lituania Art Academy at 3^rd International Biennale of Graphic Art, Vilnius, Lituania

1996
The First Prize at the 5^th International Graphic Art Biennale, Lodz, Poland

The First Prize at the 2^nd International Print Triennale, Kairo, Egypt

1995
The First Prize at the Painting Contest in Tver

1994
Grand Prize at the III^rd International Biennale of Easel Graphic Art, Kaliningrad

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

State Museum of Oriental Arts, Moscow

Moscow Kremlin Museum, Moscow

National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Moscow Museum of Contemporary Arts, Moscow

State Art Museum of Ekaterinburg

State Art Museum of Kaliningrad

State Art Museum of Perm

State Art Museum of Tver

State Art Museum of Novosibirsk

State Art Museum of Orel

State Art Museum of Samara

State Art Museum of Saratov

State Art Museum of Vologda

State Art Museum of Bishkek

State Art Museum of Ivano-Frankovsk

State Art Museum of Lvov

State Art Museum of Donetsk

State Art Museum of Erevan

and other National Museums

"Vladimir Nasedkins' art belongs to (...) the more abstract and universal values of formal harmony, organizational efficiency and material economy. He writes: "I always believed that what defines the artistic value of a painting is rhythm, color structure and plasticity; subject-matter hinders" That is why, as Nasedkin affirms, a major influence on his artistic career has been the turkmen desert, specifically, its "absence of people and its infertility" reminiscent of "paradise on earth"."

"The surfaces of Nasedkin's free-standing installations, geometric paintings, engravings and drawings are metaphors for the desert, the ocean and the mountain range, places which are also "useless"."

"A valiant nomad, Nasedkin pursues his path across enormous metallic and acrylic surfaces, unconcerned by functional intent or destination, and his artifacts (...) are metaphors for the aimless and beautiful peregrinations."

"When we contemplate the idea of emptiness and "placelessness" which Nasedkin elaborates in his minimalist manifesto (2007), we can understand that the desert, the ocean and the mountain-range can be viewed and reviewed also as minimalist artifacts."

John Bowlt "A Prophet in the wilderness" in: Vladimir Nasedkin, Tatlin publishers, 2008.

"The main aesthetic minimalist principle is the principle of opposites, which is in the combination of lines and spots with blank surfaces on the page, with void and pause. But voids and pauses are not passive, their white mass invades the image. Such an importance of the pause and the void arises because minimalism establishes the principle of incompleteness and that of an aesthetic hint, which makes perception as individual and exceptional, as the creative process itself." 

Vladimir Nasekin, quoted by Eduard Kubensky in the Foreword to Vladimir Nasedkin, Tatlin publishers, 2008.