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The Art Index (AIx, The Best Russian Contemporary Artists) is a list (unranked art rating) of artists from Russia and the Russian abroad, no older than 1960, compiled on the basis of indicators for evaluating achievements, popularity, creative activity of authors, and expert recommendations.
It is aimed primarily at collectors and all connoisseurs of contemporary art.
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Mokrov Roman

1986

About

Roman Mokrov included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Russian media artist and photographer Roman Mokrov almost overnight became a new star of artistic Moscow. Master of Psychology, also graduated from the Free Workshop School of Modern Art at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems (ICA Moscow). The works of Mokrov really seem surprisingly fresh, although his plots, in general, are not new at all. The heroes of his shootings are the inhabitants of the urban outskirts, “nemoskva,” as the author calls this social environment. In his photographs and video works, Mokrov creates a catalog of the everyday routine of an average Russian citizen, fixing his works and days: shabby porches of typical high-rise buildings and modest interiors of apartments with an obligatory carpet on the wall, chaotic parking under windows and ruins of playgrounds, trips to work and home and littered station squares, various stalls with beer and tobacco and weekends on shashlyk, weddings and funerals - as key and constantly recurring events of the social cycle. Mokrov as an artist, by his own definition, explores the phenomenon of the absurd of Russian reality, the identity of the post-Soviet space. “His path and method is sincerity and acceptance of the environment. However, “there are forty personalities in each person”, therefore the artist is quite sincerely different: commercial, gallery, underground. This sincerity is inseparable from the game and the performance, and it would be foolish to assert that the photographs of Mokrov contain the truth. It would be more correct to say that they are not lying ”(D. Borisenko).

Innovation Prize Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 49ART Rating Top 100 Young Artists