Nadezhda, 2003
Installation, 160 x 500 cm.
©image: A4A vzw.
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. UFO2003_001).
Nadezhda was produced for the exhibition Horizons of Reality at M HKA in 2003, featuring works by contemporary Russian artists. Zvezdochotov created his piece especially for the high-ceilinged space where it is now once again installed. He refrained from making a ‘pure’ painting on canvas and opted instead for a combination of patterned textile and figurative painting, ensuring that the piece can be moved and shown elsewhere. Nadezdhda is a portrait of Zvezdochotov’s infant daughter.
‘We decided to call our daughter Nadezhda (which means “hope” in Russian), which was also my mother’s name. […] I went to my mother’s house, showed her [my daughter’s name in my] passport and said: “Mother, you are now my daughter.” In response she smiled, but said nothing, and three days later she had a heart attack. But everything went well, and she could be saved.’ (February, 2003)
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> Konstantin Zvezdochotov.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Horizons of Reality. M HKA, Antwerpen, 15 March 2003 - 01 June 2003.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXII – Personality Test + The Book Lovers. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 December 2012 - 21 April 2013.
> Ensemble: EUROPE AT LARGE.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Project Poetry.