Anatoly Osmolovsky

Anatoly Osmolovsky (Moscow, ), is a Russian visual artist, performer, theorist, editor and teacher. He resides in Moscow where he sculpts wood. Osmolovsky grounds his art in theory and supports his work with self-published writings in Radek (1993) and Base (2010) magazines and by teaching art history. Concepts At the start of his career, the most important issues for Osmolovsky were those of power and revolution. Osmolovsky opposed the school of Moscow conceptualism. In the mid nineties, there was a common element of male nudity and sexualized violence in the work of Moscow artists, including that of Osmolovsky. Osmolovsky was the leader of the anti-postmodernist movement, revolutionary Rival Programme NETSEZUDIK". On the topic of post-modernism in post-Soviet Russia, he said, "The future of contemporary art is in the will to utopia, in the breakthrough into reality through a membrane of quotations, it is in sincerity and pathos."