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Emperor VAVA
Emperor Vava. The stress is on the 2nd syllable. Known as Vladimir Alexandrov as well. Born in 1962.
In the mid 80s studied for a short time at the State Moscow University, Philosophy Department.
Since 1989 has been regularly participating in exhibitions and art events at various venues -
from the galleries in Belyaevo, Viena and St.Petersburg to #50 Clinical Hospital,
Moscow Refrigirator Complex "Ice-Fili" and Alexandrovsky Garden Grotto.
Genres: painting, happening, action. He has become famous as a firm masochist, playing burning chess with burning hands, cutting various patterns and symbols on his body with a scalpel and sewing his mouth with grege threads.
Many actions were performed together with О. Mavromatti as the members of an art group "The Sect of Absolute Love".
The site has been created with the assistance of the "Open Society Institute" (Soros Foundation). Russia
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