- Alzek Misheff
Infobox Artist
name = Alzek Misheff
imagesize = 180px
caption = Portrait of Alzek Misheff in one of his artworks. [http://www.alzekmisheff.com/gfx/GALLERY/BOOK_AP.jpg]
birthname = Alzek Misheff
birthdate = Birth date and age|1940|10|8|mf=y
birthplace = flagicon|BulgariaDupnica , Kyustendil,Bulgaria
deathdate =
deathplace =
nationality = flagicon|Italy Italy
field =Performer , painter andmusician
movement =
works =Swimming across the Atlantic [ [http://www.beepworld.it/members97/manuel45/la_pittura.htm la Pittura ] ] ,Music From the Sky .Alzek Misheff (
October 8 ,1940 ) is a popular Italianartist born inDupnica ,Bulgaria . Misheff graduated in 1966 with a degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts inSofia . In 1971 he left Bulgaria forItaly where he currently lives and works inMilan ,Italy .Career
He is well known in the international art world for the project "Swimming Across The Atlantic", which was executed in the swimming pool of the ocean liner
Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1982 while traveling on the route betweenLondon andNew York . In the book "Europa-America - The different avant-gardes" produced byFranco Maria Ricci in 1976,Achille Bonito Oliva inserts Misheff between the more 30 avant-garde artists in Europe. Between his more meaningful performances "Music of the sky", concert-installation of 1979 in the Public square of theDome ofMilan . Replicated in 1979 inMills College ofSan Francisco andUniversity of California Irvine (nearLos Angeles ).He was invited to the Venice Biennial 2000, where he realized "Proliferating Truth of Sentiment " ("Proliferante verità del sentimento"): dived in full transparent water cylinder he has played with Lightning II (an infrared controller) and he has directed his quintet "The Swimmers" (Maurizio Barbetti - viola, Rocco Parisi- bass clarinet, Riccardo Sinigaglia- piano, Maurizio Dehò- violin) [ [http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/research/sap/sap/authors.html#Alzek Authors of SAP ] ] . In May 2005, at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art of Milan, PAC, he directed his "Concert for Stradivari violin, pianoforte Disklavier and quartet of mobilephones-violins" with the violinist
Eugene Sarbu , Paganini prize winner.He was invited for the second time to the Venice Biennial in 2007, with "Chalk portrait music of Joseph Beuys", then in sept. 16 in the same year the closing concert "Harmonia mundi per Joseph Beuys" with the "Orchestra italiana di flauti" (Italian flute Orchestra).
Current Projects
Currently he works at the [http://www.octaviathea.com Octavia Thea Studio] which is located in
Milan ,Italy .References
External links
* [http://www.alzekmisheff.com Official artist site]
* [http://www.theswimmers.org The Swimmers site]
* [http://www.octaviathea.com/ Octavia Thea - Artist's studio site]
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