Alexeï Vassiliev

 

Born February 27, 1959 in Moscow,
living in France since 1993.

Studied at the Lycée Romain Rolland and the University of the Humanities in Moscow

Not a very orthodox young Communist – thus not to be trusted – Vassiliev could not become an interpreter, his dream at the time. After two years of military service in the Red Army, including six months with a disciplinary battalion in Siberia, he decided to earn his living working, successively, in television, radio, and then in various factories and on construction sites. In short, the classic trajectory of every Soviet who, without being an outright dissident, refuses to adhere to the official norms.

After the perestroïka, he was finally able to exercise his profession as interpreter; he also translated French mystery novels into Russian.

It was when he arrived in France fourteen years ago that photography entered his life in an altogether fortuitous way. A journalist friend asked him to replace, on the spur of the moment, a photographer who was to accompany her on an assignment. One morning in May 1995 they left for Avignon to interview the Count De Sade and to visit the château where his ancestor, the “divine Marquis,” had lived.

Encouraged to explore, alone and self-taught, almost secretly, the meanders of conceptual photography, this became the experience that changed the course of his life.

 

Exhibits :

 

2011        « INCIPIT », galerie Sator, Paris, France

2011        « Trois Photographes », galerie Sator chez Hélène Aziza, Paris, France

2011        « PHOTOGRAPHIE RUSSE ET SOVIETIQUE DE 1900 A NOS JOURS »,
                  Piaza, Drout Richelieu, Paris, France

2010        « Hors murs », galerie Sator chez Gapihan-Encadreur, Paris, France

2010        « ACTIONS / le design en mouvement », ARCADE, Château de
                  Ste Colombe, France

2010        « PICTO. 60 ANS DE COMPLICITE», Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles,
France

2010        « Z-31 (10/12) », galerie Blue Square, Paris, France

2010        Un art au superlatif. Artistes russes.
                 Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France

2010        « ODNAJDY », galerie Chambre avec Vues, Paris, France

2009        "Nostalgie soviétique", galerie Blue Square, Paris, France

2008        « Don de Vie », Chapelle St-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France

2008        Galerie « Blue Square », Paris, France

2007        Maison des Arts, Châtillon, France

2007        52ème  Salon d’Art Contemporain de Montrouge, France

2006        Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey, Mexique

2006        Galerie « Chambre avec Vues », Paris, France

2006        Les Indépendances Photographiques, Enghien les Bains, France

2006        51ème  Salon d’Art Contemporain de Montrouge, France

2005        Festival Mai-Photographies 2005, Quimper, France

2004        Festival Voies OFF, Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, France