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pasha radetzki / pasha Ra

Pasha Radetzki, also known as Pasha RA, is a visual artist originally from The Republic of Belarus who has been working in New York City since the late '90s. He works with sculpture, intermedia installation, and performance.
His particular interest lies in the human perception of physical space and its implications in socium. Since 1999 he's been developing the notion of trans-space - a general, unconventional theoretical base, in attempt to define the aesthetics of spatial transcendence. His often subversive intellectual approach brought forward in aesthetics the concepts of arrière-garde submovement, trans-space, circular school circular movement, sclpture-semiotics, and animated space among others.
He contributed critical art reviews for The Village Voice and New York Arts Magazine in 1996-1999. He has exhibited internationally taking part in the 5th Moscow Art Biennale in 2011 (at ArtHouse parallel exhibition), Beijing 798 Biennale in 2009, Yeosu Art Biennale in South Korea; Art Taipei, Taiwan, both in 2008; Festival de Arte Contemporaneo de Leon in Mexico, 2007; 8th International Photo Biennial of Picture in Cordoba, Spain, 2003; 4th International Photo Biennial in Moscow, Russia, 2002; Manifesta 4, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2001 His work was censored multiple times as part of international art exhibitions in China, Russia, and the U.S. Most recently, at the site of the Beijing 798 Biennale in August 2009 by Chinese Communist Party authorities. He was a dissident and was committed to a military prison term for free speech publications and disobedience to military authorities after being mandatory drafted into the Soviet Union Navy during the Perestroika times [1986-89]. In New York he received an ArtsLink Projects Award from CEC International Partners in 2002 and Robert Rauscheberg Foundation grant in 2009. In New York he had solo exhibitions at Zone: Contemporary Art and Amelie A. Wallace Gallery of State University of New York, both in 2009, as well as at Hans Weiss NewSpace Gallery of Manchester Community College in Manchester, CT and 55 Gallery in Shanghai, China, both in 2010. He took part in numerous group exhibition in New York and abroad, among them at Exit Art, White Box, I-20 Gallery, , ArtSpace (New Haven), Archibald Arts, Fish-tank Gallery, Artist Space, DFN Gallery, Religare Art in New Delhi, India; Prestine Galerie in Monterrey, Mexico. He developed a number of public art projects, most recently at Fazenda Catuçaba, Sao Paulo, Brasil in 2011, P.S. 122 gallery in 2005, Dumbo Arts Festival (2002, 2004), Williamsburg Arts Festival (1999), and Downtown Art Festival (2001). His public art sculptural installation Trans-Column (With My Coffee Table) was on view outside of P.S.122 Gallery during the winter of 2005-06. Over the years, he developed an extensive base in intermedia performance and, starting in 2000, he initiated a series of field-work projects which took him to the tribal areas of the upper Mekong river in Myanmar and Laos, the Bon settlements in Western China, the Hundar Valley in Ladakh Himalayas, Ilha de Marajo in the Amazon delta, the Lacandon Maya settlements in the jungles of the Southern Chiapas, and Isla Amantani on Lago Tikikaka on Peru-Bolivian border. Jungle Works is among the most recent of field-work projects. It originated in Brazil's Amazon region of Pa'Ra where he conducted a series of on-site installation and performance works which later took shape as a multi-channeled sound-video installation entitled Pa'Ra - Vast Ocean. His works are part of the public and private collections in Europe, the U.S., and Asia; among them: Zone|Contemporary Art, Bill Wilson collection, I-20 Gallery, and Exit Art in New York; Moscow House of Photography in Russia, Belarus Museum of National History in Minsk, Belarus, , Faro Disegni in Rome, Italy. The Spatial Being series are part of the flat-files selections at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.