Alexey Parygin


Alexey Borisovich Parygin is a Soviet and Russian artist, philosopher, art historian, art theorist and curator. He is the author of several philosophical art projects, including Contemplation of Money, Art is a Business, Art in the Forest, City as an Artist's Subjectivity, Posturbanism Art Project.
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Biography

Alexey was born in Leningrad 2 December 1964. His father Boris Parygin was a social psychologist. Alexey studied at the graphics faculty of the Herzen University from 1982 to 1989. He organized the art group “Union № 0” in Leningrad in 1986–1989 and created the art squatters’ workshop “Nevsky-25” in Leningrad in 1987–1990. Joined the Professional Artists’ Union of Russia in 1994. Member of the Bureau of the Graphics Section, and member of the Board of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists.
The Art Critics Association member since 2003.
PhD in Art History with the thesis Silk Screening as a phenomenon of the 20th Century art.
Since the mid—1980s, the artist perfected printed graphic technics of serigraphy, linocut, woodcut, lithography, cardboard engraving and collagraphy).
The artist's works are in many museum collections in Russia and the world.
The artist lives and makes art in his workshop at the Benois House.

The nature of creativity

In 1980-1990 Parygin concentrated on easel oil painting outside and using models at the studio, experimented with various paint foundations such as canvas, plywood, glass and other media and used texture and relief techniques.
From Aleksandr Kamensky’s article :
From Mikhail German’s article :
From the middle of the 90-ies the artist’s main studies subject matter and experiments became signs and sign systems as communicative link of the contemporary society. From 1997 the artist created a series of extended multimedia projects Contemplation of Money, Art is a Business, Art in the Forest.
From Nikolay Blagodatov's article :
Since 2000, Parygin has been developing the utopian concept of the form of art after the death of art—Posturbanism Art Project / PostUrbanism.

Artist's books

Since 1989, Parygin has been contributing to artist's books. His first editions featured visual series of the author's poetic text: Pesok. Leningrad. 1989; Circulation—5 numbered and signed copies; Tsvetnye zvuki. Leningrad. 1989. Circulation—5 numbered and signed copies; Zelenaia kniga. Leningrad. 1989. Circulation—6 numbered and signed copies; Moia mansarda. Leningrad. 1990. Circulation—6 numbered and signed copies. And the artist’s book Krasnye karliki. Saint Petersburg. 1990. Circulation—8 numbered and signed copies.
From Elena Grigoryant’s article :
Spanning for three decades of featured art works the legacy holds about forty unique book objects. In the past decade the artist has participated several major group art editions: Metamorphosis. LS Collection Van Abbemuseum. 2013; Mayakovsky-Manifesto. St. Petersburg. 2014. Strannik Gumilëv. 2016; Jubilaeus. LS Collection Van Abbemuseum. 2018; Russkiy bukvar'. M. 2018; Poeziya neizvestnykh slov: Variatsii v kirillitse. M. 2019.

Museum collections

Exhibitions

Since 1986, the artist participated in more than 250 exhibitions held in Russia.
The artist exhibited in the Netherlands in Groningen, Eindhoven; Germany in Kiel, Hamburg, Aachen; Italy in Naples, Rome, Caltanissetta; Spain in Bilbao; Montenegro in Bar; Latvia in Riga; Poland in Warsaw; China in Beijing; Mexico in Mexico City; India; Brazil in Bagé; Guatemala in San Pedro Carchá; Ethiopia in Addis Ababa and others.

Group projects

The artist participated in international art projects, festivals and open-air exhibits: “Kubachi Tower” ; “Artisterium XII” ; “Museum for Friends” ; "Clouds" ; “Printed Graphics” ; “Crna Gora u o'ima ruskih slikara” ; “Warszawa w budowie — architektura XXI w malarstwie and others.
Principal Artist, Printmaking Studio, Timofey Markov Publishing House, St. Petersburg.
The artist worked on several joint publishing projects with Georgy Kovenchuk.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Teaching

Teaching work since 1988.
Taught courses:
Drawing at the Department of Graphics and Sculptures Herzen University. Color science, printed graphics, research at the Department of Graphic Design at St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design. He taught layout, the basics of composition, and the foundations of sculpture at the Institute of Landscape Architecture Saint-Petersburg State Forestry University. Painting course and drawing course at the Department of Interior Design/ St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, for which the concept of learning and working programs of the 1st in the 4th course was developed; painting course at the Design School, St. Petersburg,. Author's course Basics of examination of graphic works of art at the Department of Art Studies of St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions, the management of diploma works.

Texts by A. Parygin

Among the priority scientific interests of A. B. Parygin is the history of the techniques of the author's printed graphics, first of all—silk screening. Issues of the primacy of using silkscreen as an art technique; Regional schools and an early history of the process; The chronology and geography of its spread in the world; the interconnection of the latest currents and technological innovations in art. Silkscreen in the art of the United States and Canada and Cuba, in European art: Germany, England, France, Finland and the USSR. Parygin is the author of Russia's first fundamental art research on the history and phenomenology of creative silk screening. The results are published in two monographs.
Parygin is the author of Russia's first fundamental art research on the history and phenomenology of creative silk screening. The results are published in two monographs. The author of more than 100 articles on the history of graphics and contemporary art, including the artists of St. Petersburg for the German academic directory Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker.

Monographs

Publications by A. Parygin

  • Parygin Alexey A City as an Artist's Subjectivity / . Edited by Sarah Bodman.—Bristol: CFPR. University of the West of England, 2022. 292 pp.
  • Parygin A. B. .—St. Petersburg art notebooks, # 68, St. Petersburg: AIS, 2022. P. 255-259.
  • Parygin A. B. .—St. Petersburg art notebooks, # 68, St. Petersburg: AIS, 2022. P. 260-265.
  • Parygin A. B. .—St. Petersburg art notebooks, # 68, St. Petersburg: AIS, 2022. P. 248-254.
  • Parygin Alexey "A City as the Artist's Subjectivity" is an Artist is a large Russian project in the livre d'artiste format // Book Arts Newsletter. No. 140. Bristol: CFPR. University of the West of England, 2021, July—August. P. 46-48. ISSN 1754-9086
  • Parygin A. B. A City as an Artist’s Subjective Space / City as Artist's subjectivity. Artist's book project. Catalog. Authors of the articles: Parygin A.B., Markov T.A., Klimova E.D., Borovsky A.D., Severyukhin D.Ya., Grigoryants E.I., Blagodatov N.I. — SPb: Ed. T. Markova. 2020. 128 pp. P. 5.
  • Parygin A.B. Printed graphics between "yesterday" and "tomorrow" / Vs. Art. catalogue of "Printed Graphics of St. Petersburg Artists." St. Petersburg: SPb SH. 2020. 192 pp. P. 3–8.
  • Parygin A. B. Posturbanism as a concept of the future // St. Petersburg art notebooks, # 53, St. Petersburg: AIS, 2019. P. 236–238.
  • Paryguine А. Idée et Manifeste // Revue Trakt. Nu. 6; Juin 2018.—Paris. pp. 26–28.
  • Parygin A. B. Artist's Book as an art form / "The Art of Printed Graphics: History and Modernity." In Sat. Articles on the materials of the scientific conference Fourth Kazan Art Studies Readings November 19–20, 2015. Kazan: GMAI RT, 2015. P. 75–78, il.
  • Parygin A. B. Ljukšin, Jurij, Ljagačev, Oleg // Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker.—Walter de Gruyter. Band 85, 2015. 540 pp.
  • Parygin A. B. Lapšin, Nikolaj; Kuindži, Archip // Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker.—Walter de Gruyter. Band 82 — 2014, 539 pp.
  • Parygin A. B. Konasevic, Vladimir; Korolcuk, Andrej; Kopylkov, Mikhail; Kofanov, Nikolaj // Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker.—Walter de Gruyter. Volume 81, 2013. 540 pp.
  • Parygin A. The Bedbug—2013. P. 140-165 / In the book: Georgy Kovenchuk draws "The Bedbug" // Kovenchuk G., Borovsky A.—SPb: T. Markov Publishing House.—2013, 160 pp.
  • Parygin A. B. Koselochov, Boris; Kovencuk, Georgij; Kovalskij, Sergei // Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker.—Walter de Gruyter. Volume 80, 2013. 540 p.
  • Parygin A. B. The birth of Russian silk screening / Ural art and museum business: experience, problems, perspectives. Sat. Mat. Conf. All-Russian art readings of B. V. Pavlovsky's memory. EMIYA, 2011. Yekaterinburg. 2013. pp. 194–198.
  • Parygin A. B. Moscow silkscreen 1950-2010 // Design. Materials. Technology. No 3, St. Petersburg: SPb GUTD, 2013. P. 77–82, Il. 1.
  • Parygin A. B. Kabacek, Leonid; Kacnelson, Grigory; Kaplun, Adrian; Kazbekov, Latif; Kerner, Tatjana // Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker.—Walter de Gruyter. Volume 79, 2013. 535 pp.
  • Parygin A. B. Canadian Silk-Screen Project. // St. Petersburg Art Notebooks, # 26, St. Petersburg: AIS, 2013. P. 228–230.
  • Parygin A. B. Silk Screening in the Art of Post-War Germany // Design. Materials. Technology. No 2, St. Petersburg: SPb GUTD, 2012. P. 66-72, Il.
  • Parygin A. B. The Picturesque Avant-garde of the XX century as a School // St. Petersburg: SPb GUTD, 2012. Series 3. No 1, St. Petersburg: SPb GUTD, 2012. pp. 88–92, Il.
  • Parygin A. B. The First Steps of Creative Silk Screening in Russia // Design. Materials. Technology. No 2, St. Petersburg: SPb GUTD, 2011. P. 74-78, il.
  • Parygin A. B. Course of painting and drawing at the Interior Department // St. Petersburg Art Notebooks, # 21, St. Petersburg: AIS, 2011. P. 181-190.
  • Parygin A. B. The First Steps of Creative Silk Screening in Europe // Design. Materials. Technology. No 3, St. Petersburg: SPb GUTD, 2010. P. 114-116, Il.

Public lectures

Interview

  • Алексей Парыгин. Постурбанизм: знаки в пространстве идей.—Interview with Elena Grigoryants // Авансцена. 2023, December, No. 3, 4. P. 148-155. Circulation–2000 copies.
  • . Lana Konokotina. NTV—St. Petersburg. "Today in St. Petersburg". March 16, 2023 19:30.
  • . Interview with artist Alexey Parygin. Rosbalt. 2021, April 8. 19:05.
  • . Lana Konokotina. NTV—St. Petersburg. "Today in St. Petersburg". October 23, 2020. 19:30.

Critique

  • Alexeeva A. Aleksej Parygin. Parola. Colore. Emozione / Il libro d'artista. Problemi e tendenze nell'arte dei maestri pietroburghesi // .—Nuova Editrice Universitaria. Nuova sene anno VIII, numero 8, gennaio-dicembre 2024. 269 p. Р. 162—163.
  • Danilyants T. Communicative strategies of the "artist's book" // / ed. A. K. Kononov.—St. Petersburg: BKG, 2024. 424 pp. 334-343.
  • Pavlovsky A. S. Designing yourself: About the first books of Alexei Parygin // Сборник материалов двенадцатой научно-практической конференции «Трауготовские чтения 2022» / ed. A. K. Kononova.—St. Petersburg: BKG, 2023. 360 pp. pp. 153–160.
  • Klimova Ek. A City as a Book / .—Bristol: CFPR. University of the West of England. 2022. 292 pp.
  • Wilkins, Caroline A vocal journey through the language of zaum // Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. Volume 4, Number 1, 1 April 2019, pp. 85–99
  • Grigoryants El. Absorbing the Futurist heritage: Vasily Vlasov and Alexey Parygin / Books // International Yearbook of Futurism Studies / Special Issue on Russian Futurism. Ed. by Günter Berghaus.—Berlin & Boston: Walter de Gruyter. Vol. 9. 2019, 520 p. pp. 269–296.
  • Blagodatov N. Art is a search, search is an art.—Neva, No. 2, 2002. P. 253—255.
  • Grigoryants E. I. Images by Alexei Parygin // St. Petersburg Panorama, 1993, No. 3. P. 11.
  • Zhavoronkova S. M. Two artists are two worlds.—The Evening Petersburg, 1991, December 20..
  • Gorskaya M. In the hour of the equinox.—Leningradskaya Pravda, 1991, June 26.
  • Kamensky A. A. . // Pravda, 1988, September 9.

Exhibition catalogs

  • Posturbanism: Back to the Future. Alexey Parygin. Engravings, art objects, collection. Authors of the articles: Konokotina L., Kononikhin N. St. Petersburg: BKG. 2023. 24 pp.
  • Kolekcija. Iespiedgrafika Latvijas Nacionālās bibliotēkas Mākslas krājumā/ Mākslas krājumā. Dmitrijs Zinovjevs, Mārtiņš Mintaurs, Anda Boluža. Rīga: National Library of Latvia. 2022. 230 lpp.
  • Imago Mundi/ Beyond the Black square. Contemporary Artists from St. Petersburg. Texts: Luciano Benetton, Liliana Malta, Gleb Ershov. Treviso: Antiga Edizioni, 2021. 480 pp. P. 308-309.
  • III Международная триеннале современной графики в Новосибирске. Новосибирский государственный художественный музей. Novosibirsk: Изд-й дом «Вояж». 2021. 276 с.
  • Second International Print Biennale. Yerevan. 2021. С. 357.
  • A City as an Artist’s Subjective Space. Групповой проект в формате книги художника/ Каталог. Авт. вст. статей: Парыгин А. Б., Марков Т. А., Климова Е. Д., Боровский А. Д., Северюхин Д. Я., Григорьянц Е. И., Благодатов Н. И. Под общей редакцией Парыгина А. Б. Saint Petersburg: Изд. Т. Маркова. 2020. 128 с.
  • The Looking Glass and Through It. International art project. Catalog / Зеркала и зазеркалье. Международный выставочный проект. Каталог. МИСП. Авт. вст. статей: Толстая О., Шакирова Л., Пацюков В., Ипполитов А. Saint Petersburg: НП-Принт. 2020. 208 с.
  • Печатная графика Санкт-Петербургских художников / Каталог. Авт. вст. ст.: Н. Ю. Кононихин, А. Б. Парыгин. СПб.: СПбСХ. 2020. — 192 с. ISBN 978-5-6043891-1-9
  • 4-я Казанская международная биеннале печатной графики "Всадник". Каталог / Авт. вст. ст. О. Л. Улемнова. Kazan: Заман. 2019. 128 с.
  • IX Международная выставка Уральской триеннале печатной графики. Каталог / Авт. сост. И. Н. Оськина. Ufa. 2019. 216 с.
  • Artisterium XII. Artisterium On the Road // Catalog. Tbilisi: Artisterium. 2019.
  • Nuire № 5. Quatrième biennale internationale de poésie visuelle d’Ille sur Tet Catalogne nord // Catalog. Ille-sur-Têt. 2019. 95 pp. P. 82.
  • 5ª Bienal Internacional de Gravura "Lívio Abramo" // Catalog. Araraquara. 2019. 23 pp.
  • OSTEN BIENNIAL of DRAWING Skopje 2018 // Catalog. Skopje: Остен музеј на цртеж 2018. 224 рp.
  • V Фотобиеннале современной фотографии. Русский музей // Каталог. Saint Petersburg: Palace Editions, Russian Museum. 2018. 240 с.
  • MicroMacroCosm // Catalog. Mumbai. IPEP. 2018. 24 pp.
  • Il PIACERE NEI LIBRI rassegna di arte erotica dagli ex libris ai libri d’artista // Catalogo Biennale del libro d’artista IV Edizione. Napoli: Lineadarte, 2018. 180 pp.
  • Third International Printmaking Biennial in Cacak // Catalog. Cacak. 2018. 105 рp.
  • “17. INTERBIFEP” Mezinárodní bienále festivalu portrétu // Catalog. Tuzla: Mezinárodní portrétní galerie Tuzla. 2018. 186 pp.
  • Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven. Antje Theise, Klara Erdei, Diana Franssen. Eindhoven, 2013. 120 pp.
  • 黑龙江美术出版社 Heilongjiang Fine Arts Publishing House. Harbin.. Chief Editor Chen Fenyue. Executive Chief Editor Catherine Druzhinin. V. 1. Graphics St. Petersburg. 2013. 292 pp.
  • V Bienal Internacional de la Acurela. Articolo introduttivo: Dr. Gerardo Estrada, A. Guati Rojo. Mexico City, 2002. 88 pp.
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  • II-й Международный фестиваль экспериментальных искусств и перформанса/ Каталог. Авт. вст. ст.: Л. Скобкина. Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg Manege, 1998. 63 с.
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