Aleksander
Vorontsov |
NONCOMMERCIAL PROJECT / CONCEPTUAL ART
Fragments by one edit (1998) |
xerox copy, dimensions variable
Fragments of One Article consists of three pieces of paper (copy) featuring one image of 19young boy and three passages to ken from a magazine. They were scanned into a computer, reconfigured (the image was just enlarged), redawn, and finally copied by Xerox. The resulting instalation suggested the ambiguous border between the documentary and the artistic. The young boy - Alexander Vorontsov - was killed by the Chechens during the Chechnya war of independence. He was the same name and surname as the author of the work. So viewers could be mystified; many of them get an idea that Alexander Vorontsov is still a live.
The passages
Among killed and wounded soldiers there were 10 Vorontsovs, but Alexander wasn`t there.
After 8 mounth the Vorontsov got ashes of their son.
P.S. The Military`s Commissariat announced that Alexander Vorontsov, Russian solder, age-19, was decorated with the order "Courage". Posthumous.
Aleksander
Vorontsov |