Alexey Vanushkin is a writer and artist based in Frankfurt am Main. He has a Meisterschüler degree from Städelschule and has exhibited widely within the context of contemporary art. Using text, video and minimalistic installations to create disturbing atmospheres, his works weave popular culture, literature, commercial production, personal testaments, intimate stories and official reports. He is currently working on a book-length philosophical inquiry into a theory of art, the production of artifice and social abstraction.
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Artist as a Formal System: Towards a general theory of art
For the past few years, I’ve been engaged with writing a footnote to an essay with an attempted theoretical explication of what is meant by the word “art”. For a much longer time, I’ve pursued a very abstract but also very specific direction in my own art practice – like any other artist. One little… Read More »