ELCTRONIRVANA
Author: Pavel Nikiforov (St.-Petersburg, Russia)

Modern civilisation is inconceivable without electricity. All activities of a human being of the 21st century are directly dependent on the electricity. At a mere 100 years the Earth was covered by artificial web of telegraph, telephone, fibre-optic and electric cables. Atmosphere is filled with electromagnetic waves of radio frequencies, which contain terabytes of information. The whole structure of global communications is united into a kind of secluded ecosystem, to enter which homo sapiens has sockets-portals in his living space. With help of various devices (TV and radio, telephone, computers) biological intellect of an individual connects to the global intellect. Constant technological progress will save humans trouble of using extra electric devices as mediums between them and infospace. The era of ELCTRONIRVANA will come – the era of liberation, special state of spirit, surmount of earthly passions and wishes, complete rest beyond being and beyond time, as an ultimate aim of human existence.

 

Pavel Nikiforov,
sculpture and graphics.

Born on the 2nd of November 1979 in Nibega settlement of Tomskaja region, in the family of a man-of-war's man. He spent childhood and youth in Kamchatka. After finishing art school, he entered St.-Petersburg N. K. Roerich College of Art, the department of sculpture, where he had been studying for 5 years. After defending a thesis he had been studying niceties of work with material at the chair of decorative metal processing in the State Artistic Industrial Academy.
In 2003 he became one of the organisers of the creative group "TAVR" and the co-founder of Internet project "Gallery of visual arts Megatavr".
In 2006 became a member of St.-Petersburg Union of Artists of Russia.
In 2007 he joined the creative group "POLYREALISM". He does a lot of artistic work and takes part in exhibitions. He is also one of the founders of the art-project "Session of the new art "ORIENTATION IN SPACE".

 

Exhibitions:

2007                 Participant of the III exhibition of creative group "POLYREALISM" in

                         the exhibition hall of St.-Petersburg Union of Artists.
2007                 Organisation and participation in the art-project "Memorial to nature" of

                         the creative group "Arteopolis" with support of Regional Architectural                          Fund.
2007                 Participant of the exhibition "Living metal" in the gallery "Zona-D" in

                         2007. Participant of the autumn annual exhibition of St.-Petersburg Union                          of Artists.
2006                 Organisation and participation in the art-project "Session of the new art"                          in the exhibition halls of State Museum of City Sculpture.
2006                 Participant of the spring annual exhibition of St.-Petersburg Union of                          Artists. Participant of the II International Festival of Modern Art "Body                          Navigation" in the State Museum of Russian Decorative and Applied                          Arts on Elagin Island.   
2005                 Participant of the autumn annual exhibition of St.-Petersburg Union of                          Artists. Participant of the annual exhibition "Petersburg-2005" in central                          exhibition hall "Manezh".
2003                 Participant of the autumn annual exhibition of St.-Petersburg Union of                          Artists. Participant of the spring annual exhibition of St.-Petersburg Union                          of Artists.
2002                 Participant of the exhibition of N. K. Roerich College of Art graduates.
2001                 II position in the exhibition-contest "Art against drugs" organised by                          Gorbachev Fund.