Oleg Vassiliev (painter)
"Vassiliev's principal themes, which were born while he was in Russia and continue to the present day, are his memories of home and houses, roads, forests, fields, friends and family.
Vassiliev always starts his creative process from a very personal memory, from his sacred space, the safeguarded inner center, and connects it with the visual image.
Such abstract aesthetic thought was alien to mainstream Soviet Realism and demonstrates the liberties afforded graphic designers during this period.
- 2015: Po dorogam skazki : knizhnai︠a︡ grafika Ėrika Bulatova, Olega Vasilʹeva, Ilʹi Kabakova, Viktora Pivovarova iz chastnykh kollekt︠s︡iĭ i sobranii︠a︡ GMII im.
- 2014: Tulovsky, Julia et al., Oleg Vassiliev: Space and Light, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
- 2014: The Blinding Light of History: Genia Chef, Illya Kabakov, and Oleg Vassiliev: Russian paintings and drawings from the collection of Wayne F. Yakes, MD., University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
- 2011: Rosenfeld, Alla, Moscow Conceptualism: In Context, Prestel, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New York, NY, USA.
Nine Hundred Year of Masterpieces and Master Collections: Catalogue of the Exhibition, Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, NY, USA.
Petrova, N. Kolodzei et al., Oleg Vassiliev: Memory Speaks: Themes and Variations, St Petersburg: Palace Editions, Moscow, Russia.
- 2003: Choroschilow, Jurgen Harten, Joachim Sartorius, Peter-Klaus Schuster, ed., Berlin-Moscow, Moscow-Berlin Chronik 1950–2000, volume 1, Nicolai, Berlin, Germany.
- 2002: Moskauer Avantgarde: Grisha Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitri Prigov, Oleg Vassiliev, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 1999: Bulatov, Eric and Holo, Selma Reuben, Oleg Vassiliev: On Black Paper, 1994–1997, Neil K Rector, Columbus, OH, USA.
(Kommunalnyi (post)modernizm: Russkoe iskusstvo vtoroi poloviny XX veka) (Passe-partout) Ad Marginem, Moscow, Russia.
(Поэзия как факт: статьи о стихах /Poezia kak fakt: statʹi o stihah) Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie, Moscow, Russia.
- 1996: Oleg Vassiliev: Litografier til Anton Tsjekhovs novelle ‘Huset med Arken’, Oljemalerier, Galleri Cassandra, Drobak, Norway.
- 1995: Tupitsyn, Margarita, The Damaged Utopia or Kräftemessen eine Ausstellung ost-östlicher Positionen innerhalb der westlichen Welt, Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany.
- 1995: Rosenfeld, Alla and Norton T. Dodge, eds., From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art: The Soviet Experience 1956–1986, Thames and Hudson, New York, NY USA.
- 1995: Rosenfeld, Alla and Norton T. Dodge, eds., Nonconformist Art: The Soviet Experience 1956–1986, Thames and Hudson, New York, NY, USA.
- 1991: Tupitsyn, Margarita and Victor, Erik Bulatov Oleg Vassilyev, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
- 1991: Solomon, Andrew, The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a time of Glasnost, Alfred A. Knope, New York, NY, USA.
- 1989: Lisenkova, E.A., Zhivopisʹ, grafika: Ėrik Bulatov, Oleg Vasilʹev, Ėduard Gorokhovskiĭ, Ilʹi︠a︡ Kabakov, Ivan Chuĭkov: catalog, Moskovskaia organizatsiia Soiuza khudozhnikov, Moscow, Russia.
- 1989: Brown, Matthew Cullerne, Contemporary Russian Art, Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, New York, NY, USA.
- 1989: Tupitsyn, Margarita, Margins of Soviet Art: Socialist Realism to the Present, Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milan, Italy.
- 2013: The House with the Mezzanine Part 2 Lecture by Dr. Alla Rosenfeld at Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, USA.
(Click link to watch: [1]) - 2013: The House with the Mezzanine Part 1, Lecture by Dr. Maria Zavialova at Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, USA.
(Click link to watch: [2]) - 2012: Oleg Vassiliev, Exhibition Video, by The Museum of Russian Art, Twin Cities Public Television, Inc, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
(Click link to watch: [3]) - 2009: The Russian Concept, Documentary Video, by Igor Sopronenko, Signature Media Production LLC, Lexington, KY, USA.
(Click link to watch: [5]) - 1990: USSR Art, Documentary Video, by Barbara Herbich, Direct Cinema LTD., Santa Monica, CA, USA.
- 2014, October: John Hansgard Gallery, "Paper Museums: Moscow Conceptualism in Transit”, Artforum, New York, NY, USA.
- 1981: Birger, Boris, (Warum das Moskauer Kulturleben trotzdem interessant ist) Die Kunstzeitschrift, magazine, v. 6, DU, Hamburg, Germany.
