Leonid Tishkov

Project “Private Moon” is a work in progress: a mobile installation and visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her forever. He took her on a journey from 2003 until now and to create the stunning images that accompany his moon and poetry. “Private Moon” helps turn our earth into a magical space, which must be preserved as the supreme treasure.

Journey of the Private Moon around the world/Leonid Tishkov/ 2003-2018/Russia/4'04"

Leonid Tishkov was born into a school teacher’s family in a small town of Russia, Urals in 1953, and now lives and works in Moscow.
The artist’s poetic and metaphysic oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, performance, video, works on paper and books.
Leonid Tishkov started his career making cartoon-like works in the 1980s that focused with ironic, black humor and political aspects. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however, his work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aimed to engage the viewer into absurdist situations with fictional cartoon characters and an admixture of theatrical action.

Since 2000 Leonid Tishkov intensifies the romantic, even magical tradition, which was fully manifested in a series of performances "Anthology of Heaven '(1999-2002), carried out on the roof of the artist's studio and a long-play history of "Private Moon "(2003 - 2020). For the first time made the light object in the shape of the crescent Moon to the installation for open space, traveled to different countries and continents including Russia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Austria, France, Switzerland and the Arctic.