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Borovski Alexander
Alexander Borovsky was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, department of Theory and History of Painting. From 1985 he headed the Modern Art and Art Critique Section at the State Russian Museum. Since 1989 he has been the head of New Trends at the State Russian Museum. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), New Your Academy of Sciences, the Union of Artists of Russia. He works as an art critic, expert, lecturer and in TV. His major art concerns of the 1990s lie in the contemporary Western art, the problems of integration of contemporary Russian art into the world art, photography, and the history of the Soviet art. In 1970s and 1980, he was involved in the Russian graphic and industrial graphic (his Ph.D. thesis at Moscow State University entitled “A Hundred Years of the Russian Spectacular Poster”, a course in the history and theory of industrial graphic delivered at the Mukhina Industrial Art College in Leningrad). He supervises all major Directorate programs on representation of topical art at the State Russian Museum including “The Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum” project, which displays the gift of the Ludwigs, and a series of exhibitions of contemporary Western art contextualizing the contemporary art process.
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